Sunrise (Murnau, 1927): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 2pm
This film is being screened as part of the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All-Time Poll season. You can find all the details here. The movie is also screened on March 13th.
Chicago Reader review:
The best foreign film ever made in the United States. German director
F.W. Murnau was given a free hand by William Fox for his first Hollywood
production; it’s breathtaking to see the full range of American
technology and American budgets in the service of a great artist’s
personal vision. The story is essentially An American Tragedy
with a happy ending—it would be hard to imagine anything more elemental
and more potentially pompous. Yet the miracle of Murnau’s mise-en-scene
is to fill the simple plot and characters with complex, piercing
emotions, all evoked visually through a dense style that embraces not
only spectacular expressionism but a subtle and delicate naturalism.
Released in 1927, the last year of silent film, it’s a pinnacle of that
lost art.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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