It really is amazing to think of how far cinema receded with the introduction of sound. By 1928, filmmakers like Murnau, Hitchcock, Ford, von Stroheim, Lang, and Dreyer were doing really interesting things with their cameras in terms of moving them, swinging them around, really embracing montage as a storytelling device, and doing really complicated… Continue reading Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Category: FW Murnau
Faust (1926)
FW Murnau made the most expensive film in German history with Faust, and it bombed horribly making back only half of its production costs. That is a shame, because this movie is a real joy of German Expressionism. The two main centers of that fun are with the overall production design, which is a real… Continue reading Faust (1926)