{"id":88450,"date":"2013-01-30T14:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T21:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/?page_id=88450"},"modified":"2013-11-22T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T04:18:59","slug":"overstreets-favorite-films-1920s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/on-film\/overstreets-favorite-films-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstreet&#8217;s Favorite Films: 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from the 1920s. Clearly, I have a lot to learn about this decade. But give me a break\u2026 I wasn\u2019t born until 1970, and didn\u2019t start really exploring cinema until I was in college.<\/p>\n<p>In order to understand the purpose and meaning of this list, please read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/jeffrey-overstreets-favorite-films-lists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">my introduction to the Looking Closer Favorite Films lists here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<h2>1920s<\/h2>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Treasures:<\/strong> <em>The Passion of Joan of Arc<\/em> (1928), <em>Man With the Movie Camera<\/em> (1929)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Favorites: <\/strong><em>Metropolis<\/em> (1927), <em>Peter Pan<\/em> (1924)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Achievements:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Battleship Potemkin<\/em> (1925), <em>The Gold Rush<\/em> (1925), <em>Sherlock Jr.<\/em> (1924)<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">, <em>Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens<\/em> (1923), <em>The Kid<\/em> (1921), <em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/em> (1920)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the current (but occasionally updated) list of my favorite films from the 1920s. 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