501 Great Directors

Great film but the ending completely ruined it. Originally the ending involved Lillian Gish's character wandering into the desert to met her end after going insane. But the studio insisted that they had a happy ending so not to ruin Gish's career. Gish herself hated the new ending at it's easy to see why.

Amazing film. Louise Brooks is just mesmerising, my eyes were fixed on her the whole time. Has a great moody, sexual atmosphere throughout. Overall a must see of the silent era.

Totally surreal, but brilliant.

The first great musical and the one that invented all the cliches.
Only thing it would of benefited from is more Busby Berkely dance sequences.

"Now go out there and be so swell that you'll make me hate you!""

I still can't decide whether this should be a 3 1/2 or 4 star rating, maybe I'll change it once I've had a little longer to take it all in.
Anyway, "Earth" is the story of how the poor Ukranian farmers protested against the Kulaks (rich peasant farmers). Of course this is a Marxist propaganda film, but that and the plot are not really of importance. What is of importance is the beautiful images that Dovzhenko captures.
I may have only seen one film by Dovzhenko and one film by Eisenstein but as this point and can say that I prefer the former, who is somewhat overshadowed by the latters work.
The story may be a bit weak and the title cards don't seem to translate to well but this is defiantly one to see for the memorable images.