Top 10 Films of 1929

1. "Pandora's Box" (G.W. Pabst, Germany)

2. "The Man With A Movie Camera" (Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union)

3. "Arsenal" (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Soviet Union)

4. "The Love Parade" (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)

5. "Spite Marriage" (Edward Sedgwick, USA)

6. "The Cocoanuts" (Robert Florey, Joseph Santley, USA)

7. "Hallelujah!" (King Vidor, USA)

8. "Queen Kelly" (Erich von Stroheim, USA)

9. "The New Babylone" (Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Soviet Union)

10. "The White Hell Of Piz Palu" (G.W. Pabst, Arnold Fanck, Germany) 

Other great films:

Alibi
Applause
Blackmail (UK)

The Blacksmith Of The Forest (Japan)
The Broadway Melody

Condemned
Days Of Youth (Japan)
Diary Of A Lost Girl (Germany)
The Divine Lady
Dynamite

Eternal Heart (Japan)

Fighting Friends (Japan)

Happy Days

The Hollywood Revue Of 1929
I Graduated But (Japan)
The Iron Mask

Laila (Norway)

The Leatherneck
The Letter
Mocny czlowiek (Poland)

My Grandmother (Soviet Union)
Old And New (Soviet Union)
Picadilly (UK)
Rio Rita

Rotaie (Italy)

Sally
The Show Of Shows
Sunnyside Up
Their Own Desire
Thunderbolt

The Valiant
The Virginian
Welcome Danger

The Wild Party


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 1929:

1. "Un Chien andalou" (Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali, France) - short

2. "Cagliostro" (Richard Oswald, Germany)

3. "Rabmadár" (Lajos Lázár, Paul Sugar, Hungary)

4. "The Godless Girl" (Cecil B. DeMille, USA)

5. "La Femme et le pantin" (Jacques de Baroncelli, France)

6. "Erotikon" (Gustav Machaty, Czechoslovakia)

7. "Montparnasse" (Eugene Deslaw, France) - short

8. "Buried Treasure" (USA) - cartoon

9. "Glorifying The American Girl" (Millard Webb, Paramount)

10. "Quartier Latin" (Augusto Genina, Germany) - lost or unavailable

Short Top 10:

1. "A Pair Of Tights" (Hal Yates, Roach, MGM)

2. "Big Business" (James W. Horne, Leo McCarey, Roach, MGM)

3. "Rain" (Joris Ivens, Holland)

4. "Liberty" (Leo McCarey, Roach, MGM)

5. "Black And Tan" (Dudley Murphy, RKO)

6. "Double Whoopee" (Lewis Foster, Roach, MGM)

7. "A Straightforward Boy" (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

8. "Wrong Again" (Leo McCarey, Roach, MGM)

9. "Movie Night" (Lewis Foster, Roach, MGM)

10. "Unaccustomed As We Are" (Lewis Foster, Roach, MGM)

Other great shorts:

Angora Love
Bacon Grabbers
Favorite Melodies
Hoose Gow

A Perfect Day
That's My Wife
They Go Boom

Cartoon Top 10

1. "The Skeleton Dance" (Walt Disney, Disney)

2. "Mickey's Choo Choo" (Ub Iwerks, Disney)

3. "Tusalava" (Len Lye, UK)

4. "Hell's Bells" (Ub Iwerks, Disney)

5. "Wild Waves" (Walt Disney, Disney)

6. "Koko's Hot Ink" (Dave Fleischer, Paramount)

7. "Oil's Well" (Walter Lantz, Universal)

8. Koko's Conquest (Dave Fleischer, Paramount)

9. "Wooden Money" (Paul Terry, Pathé)

10. "Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid" (Hugh Harman, Warner)

Other great cartoons:

The Barnyard Battle

El Terrible Toreador
Homeless Homer

Hurdy Gurdy

The Karnival Kid
Kobutori (Japan)
Koko's Big Sale
Koko's Harum Scarum
The Plow Boy
Weary Willies
Yanky Clippers

Weak films of 1929:

Bulldog Drummond
Coquette
Disraeli
Drifters (UK)
The Last Of Mrs Cheyney
Madame X
In Old Arizona
Samurai Town: Story 2 (Japan)
The Single Standard
Tokyo March (Japan)
The Trespasser
Turksib (Soviet Union)

Weary River
Woman In The Moon (Germany)

Weak shorts:

Berth Marks
Makers Of Melody
Men O' War
Only You
Radio Rhythm

Weak cartoons:

Barnyard Melody
Chemical Koko
Chinatown My Chinatown
The Haunted House
The Jazz Fool
Jungle Rhythm
Koko's Hypnotism
Koko's Reward
The Merry Dwarfs
Mickey's Follies
Opry House
Snapping The Whip
Springtime
The Water Cure
When The Cat's Away

Lost or unavailable:

Wonder Of Women

Top 3 Musicals of 1929

1. "The Love Parade" (Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount)


2. "Hallelujah!" (King Vidor, MGM)

3. "The Broadway Melody" (Harry Beaumont, MGM)

Pandora's Box (1929) *****

The Man With A Movie Camera (1929) *****

My Grandmother (1929) ****

Mocny czlowiek (1929) ****

Probably the best Polish film of the silent era, an expressionistic melodrama about greed, ambition and ruthlessness.

The New Babylone (1929) ****

Soviet drama about the Paris Commune. Superbly directed by Kozintzev and Trauberg.

The Love Parade (1929) ****

Excellent musical set in a Ruritanian kingdom of Sylvania, where the Queen (Jeanette MacDonald) is looking for a husband. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Musical numbers:

"Paris, Stay The Same" **
"Dream Lover" ***
"Anything To Please The Queen" **
"My Love Parade" **
"Dream Lover" (reprise) **
"Let's Be Common" **
"March Of The Grenadiers" **
"Nobody's Using It Now" **
"The Queen Is Always Right" **
"Dream Lover" (reprise) *
"March Of The Grenadiers" (reprise) *