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Tag: Silent Film

Silent film solved storytelling with pure image, and its solutions still work. This tag collects reviews and essays on the silent era: visual grammar, performance without dialogue, and what modern writers can steal from it.

Nosferatu (1922) film poster

Nosferatu (1922)

June 6, 2026

Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.

Shadow of the Vampire (2000) film poster

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

June 6, 2026

What if the actor in Nosferatu was a real vampire? The conceit is irresistible.

Vampyr (1932) film poster

Vampyr (1932)

June 6, 2026

Characters appear and vanish. Vampyr earns its 8 as the strangest, dreamiest, and most genuinely uncanny vampire film ever made, a 1932 work by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer that abandons plot and logic in favor of pure nightmare.

Battleship Potemkin (1925) film poster

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

May 17, 2026

Eisenstein's 1925 Soviet propaganda film. The Odessa Steps sequence remains the most-imitated montage in cinema.

Metropolis (1927) film poster

Metropolis (1927)

May 17, 2026

Fritz Lang's 1927 German silent SF epic. The film every dystopian city movie has copied.

A Trip to the Moon (1902) film poster

Black and White

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

May 17, 2026

Méliès's 1902 14-minute fantasy short. The first proper science fiction film.

Man with a Movie Camera (1929) film poster

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

May 17, 2026

Vertov's 1929 Soviet city-symphony documentary. The film that invented half the techniques modern documentary takes for granted.

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) film poster

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

May 17, 2026

Dreyer's 1928 silent French religious drama. Considered by many the greatest performance ever filmed.

The Lost Battalion (1919) film poster

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The Lost Battalion (1919)

May 15, 2026

The Lost Battalion from 1919 is a silent docudrama made within months of the actual event it depicts. Major Charles Whittlesey appears as himself.

Wings (1927) film poster

Wings (1927)

May 15, 2026

Wings is the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It is also the only silent film to win that award.

The General (1926) film poster

The General (1926)

May 15, 2026

Buster Keaton directed it with Clyde Bruckman. Keaton stars as Johnnie Gray, a Western and Atlantic.