#48 Blackmail (1929)

For film dorks who's reading this from the U.K., if anyone happens to ask you which was the first talkie film in your country, you should be saying Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail. This drama is about a woman who kills a man in self defense after almost getting date-raped, leaving her in a terrified state of what's …

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#47 Pandora’s Box (1929)

Does anyone remember their Greek mythology? Pandora opened a box given to her by the G-ds which released all of the evil in the world. Georg Wilheim Pabst's Pandora's Box is about a promiscuous flapper whose sexuality brings danger and harm to those around her. When people think of what the women of The Roaring …

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#46 The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Does anyone reading this blog post want to be a filmmaker or a video editor in the future? Then this film will be your ticket to receiving all of the knowledge you want about early cinematography. This film doesn't have a story or real characters. Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera is an early documentary …

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