A towering city designed by the minds of the elites and built by the hands of the working class becomes an allegory for turn of the century industrialism and class discrimination. The city is turned upside down when the son of the city's mastermind leaves the lavish and easy going apex of the city for
Charlie Chaplin's famous "tramp" travels north, to the Yukon Klondike region of Canada, to try his hand at prospecting gold. As you would expect, his luck is not with him and he instead finds loneliness, unrequited love, and cooked boot as his only food source. Charlie Chaplin's "tramp" captured the audience of the time and
Eisenstein's 1925 communist propaganda film tells the story of a mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin in 1905. The mutiny aboard the Potemkin was part of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1905 and set the stage for the revolution that came in 1917. Eisenstein's film highlights the inequity between the working class sailors and the elite officers
Continue reading ➞ Battleship Potemkin (Бронено́сец Потёмкин) (1925)
"I am human like other men ~ ~ I will not be cheated of my happiness! A lonely phantom, Chaney, haunts a French opera house and takes an interest to a new singer, Christine (Philbin), in the Faust cast. He mentors her from the shadows and plots to separate her from her lover Raoul (Kerry).
An old feud between two southern families is rekindled after a lost heir, Willie McKay (played by Keaton), returns to his hometown to claim his father's estate. Optimistically returning by way of an odd stage coach meets train, he is unaware of the dangers that await him. When he is invited over to the house
