1920s, 4/4, Best Picture Winner, Drama, FW Murnau, Review

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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

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Best Picture Winner, Statement of Purpose

The Best Picture Winners at the Oscars: A Statement of Purpose

I'm not doing this all at once. I don't think I could take that. I'm going to take this in stages, mostly just finding little holes in my schedule here and there to pop in five to ten movies at a time. It will probably take me a couple of years to complete this. So,… Continue reading The Best Picture Winners at the Oscars: A Statement of Purpose

Erich von Stroheim, Top Ten

Erich von Stroheim: The Definitive Ranking

Erich von Stroheim's directing career lasted little more than a decade from the middle period of the silent era right through the beginning of the sound era, though his first full sound film can hardly be called his at this point, reshot by two other directors and mangled by the studio. Several of his films… Continue reading Erich von Stroheim: The Definitive Ranking