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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "unreliable narrator" (3)

Moonshine

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead/writer)
George Peters (cinematographer)
Al St. John (lead)
Buster Keaton (lead)
Alice Lake (lead)
Charles Dudley (lead)
Comique (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1918
Minutes: 18

The shortest Comique - and quite unlike any other. With its flimsy story, it seems to be more of a parody. But it's not clear what is being parodied. So the “lost” reference results in lost laughs.

Featured elements:

: abuse; automobile; chase; comedy; dark comedy; metatheatre; patriarchy; police execution; slapstick; unreliable narrator

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene (director)
Willy Hameister (cinematographer)
Carl Mayer (writer)
Hans Janowitz (writer)
Werner Krauss (lead)
Conrad Veidt (lead)
Friedrich Feher (lead)
Lil Dagover (lead)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (lead)
Decla (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Feb 1920
Minutes: 72

“Mother Of All Noir”? “The Big Source”? Whatever you call it, no denying that this is like so Noirsville. Music for this 1996 restoration is by Timothy Brock.

Featured elements:

: abstraction; alter ego; carnival; chase; crime; detective; flashback; manipulator; mind control; noir; psycho; rescue; unreliable narrator

An Orphan/The Orphan Of The Storm (雪中孤雏)

Cheung Wai-Man/Whitman Chant/張惠民 (director/lead)
Wu Su-Xin/White Rose Woo/吳素馨 (director/lead)
Tong Kim-Ding/湯劍廷 (cinematographer)
John Chow/周鵑紅 (writer)
Sun Ven-Chin/俊文沈 (lead/writer)
Han Lan-Gen/韓蘭根 (lead)
Lee Hong Hong/李紅紅 (lead)

Language: Silent, Chinese and English titles, released in 1929, month unknown
Minutes: 76

Uniquely crafted tale, told largely in title cards rather than imagery, suggesting that the protagonist was a Cinderella-like victim of human cruelty, while at the same time making it clear that her negative psychological responses were at the root of her problems. Wonderful acting by the three most villainous characters, along with a surprisingly modern look of both the cinematography, and the lead couple (who co-directed!).

Featured elements:

: abuse; family; fighting; helpless heroine; heroic defender; marriage termination; melodrama; orphan; rescue; romance; servitude; shrew; unemployment; unreliable narrator

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