Director: Victor Sjöström Year: 1928 Run-time: 1 hr 18 min Source: Vimeo video (with modern soundtrack) Wikipedia Plot Summary and Review Notable for: Lillian Gish's first real appearance on the list, although she has a cameo in Intolerance . Gish is often considered the greatest actress of the silent era. It's also (I believe) the only one of Sjöström's films on the list, which considering the quality here is probably a shame. Verdict: Stunning and intoxicating. There are many wonderful things to say about The Wind , but I'll point out two that struck me: - The rapid fall of Gish's character's prospects. The Wind is not a "realist" film for many reasons, but there's something really moving about watching Gish marry a man she doesn't like, simply because she has nowhere else to go, no money to return back to the East Coast (and presumably nothing to do there), and the only other suitor is even worse. It's so incredibly ra...
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