Echoes #9
Dave McDougallA man and a woman share a tender embrace, in two images nearly 80 years apart from films by F. W. Murnau and Anne-Marie Miéville.
F.W. Murnau
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The Forgotten: The Unheimlich Maneuver
David CairnsGraf Oetsch, suspected of his brother’s murder, arrives uninvited at a hunting party. Why is he here?
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Indies, Revivals and a Blockbuster
David HudsonA funny thing happened on the way to the weekend. Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, with Ed Norton playing twin brothers — the gag being, of course, that they're often both onscreen in the same
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F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise": Harbor Daze and Drunk on You
Ryland Walker KnightA lot of the pleasure of F.W. Murnau's seminal 1927 silent, Sunrise, stems from its fluidity, from Murnau's unfolding mise-en-scene, as if the world peels back with every curve of the camera. The static
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD Report: "Sunrise" (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Glenn KennyIts conditional sexism and the immortal protestations of Oscar expert Tom O'Neil notwithstanding, I think we can all agree that F.W. Murnau's post-Expressionist paean to monogamy and such, Sunrise, is
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Murnau on DVD: Kino's Murnau Box Set
Daniel KasmanAbove: Emotional distance is spatial distance in F.W. Murnau's The Haunted Castle (1921). Sad, isn't it, to see John Ford and Frank Borzage honored so highly in 2007 and 2008 on home video with a lavish
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Murnau's dark: "City Girl" and lantern light
Daniel KasmanFrom City Girl (1930); featuring Charles Farrel, Mary Duncan, Edith Yorke, David Torrence, and
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Murnau's light: "City Girl" and the run through the wheat
Daniel KasmanFrom City Girl (1930); featuring Charles Farrel and Mary Duncan; directed by F.W. Murnau; production design by Edgar G. Ulmer; cinematography by Ernest Palmer
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Murnau on DVD: "City Girl" (1930)
Daniel KasmanTurning from the grand, sweet allegory of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), F.W. Murnau unknowingly had only three more films in him before his tragic, early death. Between that most excellent of
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Image of the day
Daniel KasmanA teasingly beautiful introduction to The Notebook's upcoming coverage of the new DVD boxset, Murnau, Borzage and Fox.From City Girl (1930); directed by F.W. Murnau; production design by Edgar G. Ulmer;