What is the oldest movie longer than 1 hour that you have watched?

What is the oldest movie longer than 1 hour that you have watched?

Birth of a Nation, obviously.

other than a bunch of fritz lang? the 39 steps, the island of lost souls. watched most humphry bogart films

My folks are genuine boomers and had me pretty late. Grew up watching old films, but I guess if I had one that I still remember very fondly it would be Swiss Family Robinson

Metropolis is kino

That Alfred Hitchcock movie where a guy spies on his neighbour committing crimes or whatever.
I refuse to watch anything older than 50s.

The Anvil Hoarder

The Fighting Sullivans (formerly The Sullivans)

Mondo Cane

Nosferatu

I refuse to watch anything older than 50s.

Actually no, it's Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944). My grandfather showed me that one. In fact he showed me a couple old movies (definitely older than Mondo Cane) but I don't remember their names or even most of what happens. I only remember in one film they kill a fox and cut off his dick to make him look female because the female one sells for more or something?

I refuse to watch anything older than 50s.

Watch The Thin Man

my grandfather loves Nosferatu

Dor Mabuse, the gambler.
It's a 4 hour kino by Lang and it's unironically fucking great! The story is thrilling and the character is very interesting, the ending is chaotic and very cinetic. Amazing movie for it's age

Probably The Last Days of Pompeii (1913). I've seen a lot of silent movies, though most of them were from the 20s.

I will check it out

Absolutely. Also Fritz Lang > Orson Welles

Probably Metropolis. Very interesting in parts, kind of started to lose me towards the end thoughbeit.

your grandfather IS Nosferatu

Same. It’s actually a really good movie. Some parts are silly, but it has a poetic quality you rarely see in American films.
Such a shame it’s only remembered today because muh racism. It’s certainly racist, I won’t deny that, but it’s far more anti-Yankee than anti-Black. The only reason the Black people cause so much trouble towards the end is because the Yankees tell them to.

You haven’t seen The Wizard of Oz? WHAT THE FUCK

I will check it out

If you're in the mood for a Fritz Lang experience, add in your queue his Die Nibelungen duology. It's fucking beautiful, very fantastic and you can see how shockingly talented he was at a young age.

Funny that you mention Welles because, to me, they both forced me to break paradigms. First black and white movie I enjoyed was, obviously, Citizen Kane and that made me realize that other b&w can be enjoyable. Same with silent filmes, Metropolis broke that barrier for me followed really close by Passion of Joan of Arc.

Die Nibelungen duology. It's fucking beautiful, very fantastic and you can see how shockingly talented he was at a young age.

Ah, the movies that made Adolf Hitler a fan of him!

he was so based he inspired Hitler

Frtiz Lang's "M"

one of the best movies ever made

I completely agree. And we can't forget how tense and exciting the final moments of the film are. Nothing that powerful could be made today.

this webm made me go watch Wings 1927. Surprisingly good.

I love how he used silence to build tension. Also interesting that this movie has no main protagonist - only the main antagonist, pretty innovative even for today's standards

I think probably der golem or dr caligari

yankee niggas

Loved it

What is the oldest movie longer than 1 hour? We can all watch it and then everyone wins :)

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L'inferno (1911), Absolute Kino

The Godfather

has anyone here watched a pre-soviet russian film? do those even exist?

An Australian film about Ned Kelly, kek. Although I'm not sure if the full film survives.

I don't think so. Russian cinema started with Soviet Union but it was a very strong start with Eizenshtein, Kuleshov and Batalov. The soviets even founded the first film school in the world (!)

oldest movie is lost media

We have to find it

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, watched it over and over again as a kid and watched it again recently, every aspect of it is incredible, the animation is better than anything since.

Depends on what you consider a "movie"
This is the oldest I found that you can actually watch since it isn't lost
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Works,_1904

I guess we lost all the 19th century kino

A shame that we never got true Russian culture preserved in film without bolshevik taint.

This is from 1897 and apparently is the first ever film over 60 minute but most of it is lost
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corbett–Fitzsimmons_Fight

battleship potemkin

Cinema was born in 1895, the Russian Empire fell in 1917. It was a very brief window of time but yeah, would've been cool to have at least one movie made in that era or at least made in the Russian Empire