F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, far and away probably the most influential early vampire film, got here out 102 years in the past. For about ten of these years, Robert Eggers has been attempting to remake it. He wouldn’t be the primary: Werner Herzog solid Klaus Kinski because the blood-sucking aristocrat on the center of his personal version…
In early 1920, posters started seeming throughout Berlin with a hypnotic spiral and the mysterious command Du musst Caligari werden — “You need to develop into Caligari.” The posters have been a part of an innovative advertising campaign for an upcoming film by Robert Wiene referred to as The Cabiinternet of Dr. Caligari. When the…
The video above from YouTuber Alex Day contains clips from about 500 motion pictures, and also you’ve nearly certainly seen various of them. Battleship Potemkin, Dumbo, Rear Window, Dr. No, The Godfather, E. T. the Additional-Terrestrial, Prime Gun, Courageouscoronary heart, Gladiator, Inception: we’re not discussing about obscurities right here. Whether or not or not you depend them amongst your personal favorites, these movement pictures have…
Round right here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such factor as an excessive amount of Orson Welles. In years previous, we gave you Welles narrating Plato’s Cave Allegory and Kafka’s “Earlier than the Regulation,” and, earlier than that, the Welles-narrated parable Freedom River, and the record goes on. Now, we current The…
12 For 2 weeks every Spring, the charming seaside metropolis of Cannes, France transforms itself right into a hub for one of many movie trade’s most essential and iconic occasions: The Cannes Movie Pageant. If you happen to’re a university scholar keen about or pursuing movie, we’re sure you’re well-versed in all that occurs at…
A obscure sense of disquiet settled over Europe within the period between World Conflict I and World Conflict II. Because the gradual burn of militant extremelynationalism mingled with jingoist populism, writeritarian leaders and fascist factions discovered mounting support amongst a citizenry hungry for certainty. Europe’s developing trepidation fostered a number of the 20th century’s most…
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Area Odyssey has been praised in all manner of phrases because it got here out greater than half a century in the past. An early advertising campaign, faucetping into the enthusiasm of the contemporary counterculture, referred to as it “the ultimate journey”; within the equivalently fashionable parlance of the twenty-twenties, one…
A number of years in the past, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 presenting two girls experimenting with the primary cell phone. A spokesman for the archive stated: ”It’s amazing that 90 years in the past cell phone technology and music … was not solely being considered however being trialled.” “The telephone even…
What do you imagine if you hear the phrase “cat piano”? Some sort of whimsical furry beast with black and white keys for enamel, perhaps? A relative of My Neighbor Totoro’s cat bus? Or perhaps you picture a piano that contains several caged cats who shriek alongside a whole scale when keys are pressed that slam sharpened…
One someinstances hears lamented the tendency of films to depict Mexico — and in particular, its capital Mexico Metropolis — as a menaceening, rough-and-tumble place the place human life has no value. Such concerns change into close toly as previous as cinema itself, having first been raised in response to a toughly thirty-second-long movie known…
In 2015, we excessivemilded for you The Unusual Case of the Cosmic Rays, a bigly-forreceivedten 1957 educational science movie. The professionalduction is notable halfly as a result of it was shot by Frank Capra, the influential director who had gained not one, not two, however three Oscars for greatest director. And in addition as a result of the…
The thought of the auteur director has been a controversial one at occasions given the sheer number of people required at each stage to professionalduce a movie. Nevertheless it hangs together for me whenever you have a look at the movies of say, Martin Scorsese or Akira Kurosawa, each directors with very distinctive visual languages…