Watched Keaton’s “Go West” last night on TCM. I lovethis gag with the guy unloading the box car- it’s just so beautifully timed.
That the one I came in here to note. Amazing picture.
My son and I watched Metropolis a few months ago. Yea, the story is kinda dumb, but the sets are very cool.
I need help on this one! Not that old lol!
“Birth of a Nation” is very well made but enjoy a movie that glamorizes the Ku Klux Klan? You can root for Keaton in “The General” as he is a little guy battling the odds to catch the train (and I like the fact that one of the Northern generals is former baseball star Turkey Mike Donlin). But the Klan??? There is also Douglas Fairbanks Sr “Thief of Baghdad”.
I can’t say I’ve watched many B&W movies - only the Marx Brothers ones, The Great Dictator and the Maltese Falcon. Of these, I’d say the *Falcon takes the first place - not that the Marx are bad per se, far from it, but I don’t reckon they make for very good movies. I could just as well have watched Groucho and Chico banter on a stand-up stage for a couple hours, with Harpo providing the occasional straight man or punctuating duck quack :), and that would have probably been more enjoyable. As for The Great Dictator, *while it’s fun the style of humour is pretty dated and the final speech, while heartfelt, kind of makes me roll my eyes. That said, I will never not laugh out loud at Hynkel’s microphone-frightening speech.
If you wanna get all competitive about it, I’ve also watched The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, that is to say one of it not the very first motion picture ever shot, but I found the characters two dimensional and the storyline hard to follow 
Probably not the oldest movie I’ve ever enjoyed, but the oldest movie I’ve enjoyed recently: Chaplin’s City Lights (1931).
One of my faves too. Watching Gish freak out as the body is gradually exposed is an amazing piece of acting. I keep a big glass of water handy when I watch it. 
Monkey Business (1931)
Coconuts has that goofy dance scene at the start. I liked that!
I’m a bit surprised that nobody has mentioned Freaks (1932). That’s one enjoyably disturbing movie.
I came to mention Metropolis, but I’ll just agree with kunilou instead. The sets were fantastic although the story was a bit Nazi-ish.
I also really enjoyed ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ based on the book by H.G.Wells, although I don’t know how well it followed the book. Interesting take on the future (glass furniture?, world government run by scientists?).
Bob
“Red-Headed Woman” and “Freaks”, both from '32.
Cabinet of Caligari, Metropolis, The Last Laugh, and Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler - our varsity film club had a German Expressionist festival once, and i enjoyed all of them. Mabuse was fuck-long, though, we had to watch it over 3 showings…
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is the earliest I actually enjoyed as a whole. Parts of Intolerance (1916) were really good but the film as a whole was only so-so.
I haven’t seen many of these early films…I’ll have to go with Fritz Lang’s M, which is just so damned creepy and compelling.