Filmmaker, musician, and writer Jeremy Mathews takes a couple tacks in his selections for 1915. In addition to a couple National Film Registry entries and another widely praised American drama, he selects an offbeat short comedy and a surreal, macabre, and underseen Russian horror, of a kind.

Jeremy’s film criticism has appeared in Eye for Film in the UK and Paste Magazine in the US. He fronts the indie band NSPS as singer, songwriter and guitarist, with upcoming projects including the new NSPS album, No Truth Left to Tell, and a short film called Seize the Initiative, which he directed and edited.

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Mentioned media:

• The Italian (1915) - Reginald Barker
• After Death (1915) - Yevgeni Bauer
• Hypocrites (1915) - Lois Weber
• Regeneration (1915) - Raoul Walsh
• Fox Trot Finesse (1915) - Sidney Drew
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) - F.W. Murnau
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) - D.W. Griffith
• The Cheat (1915) - Cecil B. DeMille
• Carmen (1915) - Cecil B. DeMille
• Burlesque on Carmen (1915) - Charlie Chaplin
• Suspense (1913) - Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - D.W. Griffith
• Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
• Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino
• House of Gucci (2021) - Ridley Scott
• Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968) - Roman Polanski
• The Last Laugh (1924) - F.W. Murnau
• Vampyr (1932) - Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Crowd (1928) - King Vidor
• The Iron Horse (1924) - John Ford
• “The 100 Best Silent Films of All Time” - Jeremy Mathews
• The Silent Clowns - Walter Kerr
• My Mamie Rose: The Story of My Regeneration - Owen Kildare
• Perils of the New Land: Films of the Immigrant Experience (1910-1915)