Hey there y'all! The #MovieBowl Selection Committee is trying something a little different. We want to go old, old, like, really old school with one of these, so we thought it'd be fun to spoil the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl and give you three weeks to become familiar with the participants!
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
(1) METROPOLIS (Letterboxd champion)
(2)SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (special Academy Champion)
(3) WINGS (Academy champion)
(4) THE JAZZ SINGER (Box office champion)
(5) NAPOLEON
(6) THE UNKNOWN
(7) OCTOBER
(8) UNDERWORLD
(9) THE KID BROTHER
(10) BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY
(11) 7TH HEAVEN
(12) THE LODGER
(13) THE KING OF KINGS
(14) THE CAT AND THE CANARY
(15) IT
(16) COLLEGE
the 1927 #MovieBowl starts Wednesday, May 25th right here on laserdisc.party
be there!
Stlex 
@derek I feel like I know what a couple of these are just based on this list
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@derek yesssssss so many of these already on a list of Things I Wanna Watch
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@derek What a fun group!
I've seen as many of these as I have, like, the 2019 movie bowl, that can't be good right?
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@derek oh man I will do my best to watch this list in the time allotted. Most were already on my to watch list
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@derek If you can dig up archive.org youstubes etc links that'd be really useful.
@derek fuck YES
@derek maybe you want to add this one. it's from 1927, Germaine Dulac is the director, and it's one of my favourite movies ever https://youtu.be/eJduxQHEghU
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
Metropolis is great, at very least aesthetically, although the plot is kinda mid. Fucking beautiful movie
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@TerryHancock there isn't really a formal way we do it, people just kind of watch what they like as it comes up; I'm doing this for 1927 just because I suspect people will just have seen way fewer of them, so it's kind of a heads up
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
I guess with a lot of these older films, you can probably find them on YouTube, now. I've found a few old films that way.
I presume most of these are silent films? I know Metropolis is, and The Jazz Singer was one of the first films with any sync sound, IIRC.
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@TerryHancock yup, I'm like 99% sure these are all silents save The Jazz Singer
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@derek
I personally love the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis, with the 80s pop soundtrack. Not the most complete version of the original film anymore, but I found the combination of MTV music-video era music with 20s telegraphic over-acting to be very enjoyable to watch!
And as is tradition, here is the field for the 1927 #MovieBowl
@TerryHancock @derek I’ve managed to source most of this slate online, many through legal means. Looking forward to watching them!
Some familiar faces will be there: Hitchcock, Murnau, Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Josef von Sternberg, and Buster Keaton are all represented