Category:1900, Top Films

1896 -- 1897 -- 1898 -- 1899

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>> Film Studies (1900s) <<

1901 -- 1902 -- 1903 -- 1904

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

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.