Gagman, my copy was lent me by a friend. I don't know of it's origins. Good for you for restoring silents. If only the companies would take the same care. I watched my set of Eugeni Bauer films entitled Mad Love . They are three really distinctive films. I liked The Dying Swan the best but of the ot...

This morning I watched Mantrap with Clara Bow directed by Victor Fleming. It always saddens me how Clara's films haven't had better treatment, surely there would be a market for them. She shines in this film. She marries (unbelieveably) Ernest Torrence and goes back with him to live in the country. ...

I watched Suds tonight. What an unusual movie. I marvel at Mary Pickford who didn't mind making herself look ugly. How such a beautiful woman does I, even after reading the book about how she did it, I'm still amazed. Very Victorian in feel again with a little bit of Cinderella thrown in for good me...

Regarding Day of Wrath, I too think she is complicit in her own downfall although completely undeserving of such a end, it's a powerful film. I like Dreyer very much as a film maker.

Yes he was very different in West Point than in Show People. I've seen The Trial of 98 based on the Alaskan Gold Rush. The only other film I've watched about this time period is Chaplin's The Gold Rush . This film is a completely serious film about what befell the people who went looking for gold. I...

I think Rene Clair was very flattered that Chaplin borrowed the idea, adjusted it and made it his own. To view both films the look of the factories are very similar.

I think I've only seen Claire Bloom in Limelight. This was one of her first roles. I thought she'd been cast because of her resemblance to Chaplin's wife Oona. It is a great film and so multi layered. She gives a good performance, sometimes overplaying a little. She plays a ballerina who is rescued ...

Marion Davies does seem to unfairly neglected when it comes to restorations of her works. From what I've read about her films they have a fresh feeling to them. She was a skilled comedienne and it's time we were given more chance to appreciate her.

I took Important to mean films that opened my mind to the wonderful world of film and made me realize it's potential. When I've looked at my list again, there is a concentration of comedy films. The one I would substitute for a drama is Some Like it Hot for Sunset Boulevard. I discovered them at abo...

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I can easily see how someone could not like Gene Kelly. I barely like him. His ego is constantly on display in his films. What you see as ego I see as warmth and exuberance. I don't seem to mind ego when it is deserved like Gene Kelly and Chaplin but it irritates the heck out of me when genius stat...

MissGoddess I'm so envious. I'd love to any Chaplin film on a big screen. The close up in the final scene is etched in my mind. It's one of the great scenes in film were you wait the whole film to get there and then when it's gone you need to see it again. The end of An Affair to Remember takes me i...

The five movies most important to me are CITY LIGHTS - My favorite Chaplin feature. It is one of the most touching love stories put on film. It's comedy it timeless, it has some wonderful sight gags, the hilarity of the drinking scenes juxtaposed against the relationship betwen the Tramp and the bli...

What a fascinating article. Thanks for posting Gagman :) I watched West Point last night. I've only seen William Haines in Show People and I couldn't make my mind up about him. I loved his character in Show People but I wanted to see another film to assess him properly. The film was made on location...

It's great to have the two films to compare. I prefer Rudolph Valentino's Armand and I'm not a big fan of Garbo's death scene, whereas I think Nazimova over eggs the custard, so to speak. Garbo inhabits the role of Marguerite Gautier better than Nazimova but this is partly down to dialogue. The sets...