Category:1900, Top Films
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Notable 1900 films
- {en} Faust and Marguerite (USA 1900 Porter) <YouTube> -- Marguerite is seated before the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite.
- {fr} Hamlet / Le duel d'Hamlet (FRA 1900 Maurice) <YouTube> -- The final duel in 'Hamlet', in the first film of the play, starring Sarah Bernhardt.
- {fr} Joan of Arc / Jeanne d'Arc (FRA 1900 Méliès) <YouTube> -- A divinely inspired peasant woman becomes an army captain for France and then is martyred after she is captured.
- {fr} [The] One-Man Band / L'Homme-Orchestre (FRA 1900 Méliès) <YouTube> -- A band-leader assembles an orchestra by mystifying means.
- {en} Soldiers of the Cross (AUS 1900 Perry) <lost> -- The story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors guaranteed to jolt audiences into an awareness of terrible suffering for the sake of Christianity.
Critical Reception
Flickchart, Best Films
-- @1. The One-Man Band (Melies) -- @2. The Delights of Automobiling (Hepworth) -- @3. Joan of Arc [Jeanne d'Arc] (Melies) -- @4. Grandma's Reading Glass (Smith) -- @5. The Enchanted Drawing (Blackton) -- @6. Sherlock Holmes Baffled (Marvin) -- @7. Solar Eclipse (Maskelyne) -- @8. The Mystic Swing (Porter) -- @9. A Fantastic Meal (Melies) -- @10. The Wizard, the Prince and the Good Fairy (Melies)
-- @11. A Nymph of the Waves (Armitage) -- @15. Cyrano de Bergerac (Maurice) -- @24. Avenue de l'Opera (Guy-Blache) -- @25. How He Missed His Train -- @33. Le village de Namo -- @42. Attack on a China Mission
History of Cinema, Best Films (8)
-- Grandma's Reading Glass (Smith) -- Avenue de l'Opera (Guy-Blache) -- As Seen Through a Telescope (Smith) -- A Nymph of the Waves (Armitage) -- Joan of Arc [Jeanne d'Arc] (Melies) -- The Enchanted Drawing (Blackton) -- Attack on a China Mission (Williamson) -- Explosion of a Motor Car (Hepworth)
Letterboxd, Best Films (5)
-- #1. Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d’une chaise à porteurs (Veyre) -- The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot–usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train.
-- #2. Solar Eclipse
-- #3. Avenue de l'Opera (Guy-Blache)
-- #4. How He Missed His Train
-- #5. Cyrano de Bergerac -- Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand’s famous play performing a scene from his most famous role. It is accompanied by a sound-on-cylinder recording of Coquelin’s voice reciting one of Cyrano’s speeches.
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