FEATURE FILMS
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Some embedded videos had been deleted  by You Tube. If we find them again, we will share them. Until they show up again (best sources are You Tube and Vimeo), we keep the  titles up, hoping for the best.
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ERASERHEAD

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Eraserhead is an American surrealist-horror film written and directed by David Lynch, and released in 1977. In 1971, Lynch moved to Los Angeles to study for an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts) degree at the AFI Conservatory. At the Conservatory, Lynch began working on his first feature-length film, Eraserhead, using a $10,000 ($33,849.74 today due to inflation) grant from the AFI. The grant did not provide enough money to complete the film and, due to lack of a sufficient budget, Eraserhead was filmed intermittently until its release in 1977. Lynch used money from friends and family, including boyhood friend Jack Fisk, a production designer and the husband of actress Sissy Spacek, and even took a paper route to finish it.
SORRY, VIDEO DELETED
​still looking if I can find it elsewhere - in the meantime, here are some trailers


NOSFERATU

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Nosferatu
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; or simply Nosferatu) is a classic 1922 German Expressionist horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu" and "Count Dracula" became "Count Orlok").



Un chien andalou (1929)
(The Andalucian Dog)

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"Un Chien Andalou remains a startling artifact suggesting ways in which film can express the subconscious. The result of Luis Bunuel's collaboration with Salvador Dali, the 17-minute, 1929 film was designed expressly to shock and provoke. Opening with the canonical eyeball-slashing sequence and divided into baffling 'chapters', this is a work of art obsessed with religion, lust, decay, violence, and death. Un Chien Andalou isn't simply one of the great works of the surrealist movement, but a segment of cinematic DNA that irrevocably altered the aesthetics of film." -amazon.com (Ryan Boudinot)


L'âge D'or (1930)

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"Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it's still a pure Surrealist film, so this is only a vague outline. A man and a woman are passionately in love with one another, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, the Church and bourgeois society."


Die Nibelungen:
Siegfried (1924)  by Fritz Lang

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Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter,  King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a  treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him  invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild,  she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried's head. Is  Gunther going to do her that favor?
Director: Fritz Lang - Writers:  Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou - Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor  Loos
Release Date: 1924 - Color: Black and White, 140 min

Note: this newly embedded video has the entire cycle:
Die Nibelungen (The Nibelungs) is a series of two silent fantasy films created by Austrian director Fritz Lang in 1924: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge.
The screenplays for both films were co-written by Lang's then-wife Thea von Harbou, based upon the epic poem Nibelungenlied written around AD 1200. Siegfried was released in the U.S. on 23 August 1925, premiering at the Century Theatre in New York City in the short-lived Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Kriemhild's Revenge was released in the U.S. in 1928.​
Additional Note: The embedded YouTube film was pulled, I found a version on the Internet Archive:


Repulsion

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 Repulsion

is a 1965 British psychological horror  film directed by Roman Polanski,  based on a scenario by Gérard Brach and  Roman Polanski. It was Polanski's first English language  film, and was shot in Britain, as such  being his second film made outside his native Poland. The cast  includes Catherine
Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser and Yvonne Furneaux.
Polanski himself makes a cameo as a spoon player in a trio of  street buskers.
.... read more on Wikipedia

Roman Polanski knows women because he understands men. He knows both sexes  because he understands the games both genders play, either onsciously or  instinctively. He understands the perversions formed from such relations and  translates them into visions that are erotic, disturbing, humorous and, most  important, allegorical in their potency.
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The embedded version I had before was much better than this, but it got deleted from You Tube. 


Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages


Originally filmed in 1922, this version was updated in the mid 1960's to include english narration by William S Burroughs. The writer and director Benjamin Christensen discloses a historical view of the witches through the seven parts of this silent movie. First, there is a slide-show alternating inter-titles with drawings and paintings to illustrate the behavior of pagan cultures in the Middle Ages regarding their vision of demons and witches. Then there is a dramatization of the situation of the witches in the Middle Ages, with the witchcraft and the witch-hunts. Finally Benjamin Christensen compares the behavior of hysteria of the modern women of 1921 with the behavior of the witches in the Middle Ages, concluding that they are very similar.
More info here: HÄXAN: WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES