January 28, 2008
I have seen it with a DJ and the mix of the two was pretty good.
David Holm, a belligerent drunkard, must contend with past misdeeds of pettiness and alcoholism as he gathers the souls of the dead. Will he roam the roads forever as a ghostly driver or achieve salva...( read more
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October 8, 2009Here?s a relative obscurity, a silent Swedish film featuring the Grim Reaper. The special effects here are amazing for their time, they are able to make actors (and a carriage) look like translucent ghosts for extended scenes, not an easy feat in 1921. The story has also proved...( read more)
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September 21, 2009This was made in 1920. Wow!
Excellent silent film that plays like a Christmas Carol where the town myth is that if you die on New Years, your soul is stuck driving the Phantom Carriage for that whole year, where one night as the rider feels like a hundred years. Anyway, a guy d...( read more) -
August 5, 2009A beautiful & moving Swedish silent film from 1921. One can really see how much of an influence this had on future filmmakers, from the flashbacks (sometimes within flashbacks) to the special effects (still surprisingly effective) to the storyline itself. Influential stuff.
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June 4, 2009It's like A Christmas Carol/It's a Wonderful Life only way more Swedish and silent and slightly more frightening at times. Plus it's set at New Year's instead of Christmas. Totally.
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June 17, 2008I highly recommend watching this with the Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg score. It has to be the most sublime and disturbing score for a film that really has to be one of the, if not the very best of silent films. I was absolutely involved in the protaganists's decline into des...( read more)
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December 18, 2007If you, like me, like the set-pieces where somebody wakes up with a startling gasp, gets out of bed only to discover they are still lying in it. They are dead and staring at their corpses. You should give a thought to this swedish silent movie from 1921. A double exposure was no ...( read more)
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