1920'S FILM

FACTS

• The greatest output of feature films in the US occurred in the 1920s and 1930s
• Silent films were the important product of the film industry
• Until the 1920s is when film started to have sound
• Silent film era was between 1894 to 1929.

METROPOLIS-1927

• Director: Fritz Lang
• Born in Austria-Hungary in 1890 and died in California in1976.
• Main actors: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
• Brigitte Helm (1906-1996)
• Alfred Abel (1879-1937)

REVIEWS & AWARDS

• Fritz Lang's 1927 masterpiece Metropolis is greater still in this newly restored version, writes Philip French
• Peter Bradshaw: Watching it is to be aware of ghosts and hints of the future, and yet aware that nothing else looks quite like this extraordinary celluloid opera
• Ranked #12 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.
• It was ranked #2 in a list of the 100 greatest films of the Silent Era.
• The 2002 version awarded the "New York Film Critics Circle Awards" "Special Award"

THE GOLD RUSH-1925

• Silent comedy film
• Director: Charlie Chaplin
• Charlie Chaplin: born in London in 1889 and died in Switzerland in 1977.
• Actors: Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, and Tom Murray

REVIEWS & AWARDS

• Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness.
• It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures, as it has more thought and originality than even such masterpieces of mirth as "The Kid" and "Shoulder Arms."
• Reviews from the New York Times
• Won Best Foreign Language Film
• Nominated for Best Sound Recording