Sunday! F.W. Murnau's 'Sunrise' with Live Score by My Education

Hey, it's number five on 'Sight & Sound' ten best movies ever list

"...If you've never seen Murnau's 1927 cri de coeur, then you ain't seen nothing..."

Sept. 8, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Shadow of the Vampire

"...Cary Elwes, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe and John Malkovich. F.W. Murnau's 1922 vampire classic Nosferatu gets a boost from..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tabu

"...Directed by: F.W. Murnau. Starring: Anna Chevalier and Matahi. This 1931 film's..."

July 26, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Silent Enemy

"...Keaton, Roscoe “Fatty'' Arbuckle, D. W. Griffith, F. W. Murnau and William S. Hart). The Silent Enemy is a..."

Oct. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Tokyo Fist

"...Raging Bull on acid, with a bit of tweaky F.W. Murnau thrown in for bad measure, all deafening chopsocky,..."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

M

Lang's unnerving tale of a deranged child-killer (with Lorre in a star-making turn) is a riveting example of Expressionist filmmaking.

"...Wagner, who also left his dank, tenebrous imprint on F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. Thematically, the two films couldn't be more..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nosferatu With Live Musical Accompaniment by Dick Price

"...Directed by: F.W. Murnau. Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav Van Wangenheim..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bite Me

Graham Reynolds performs score for 'Nosferatu'

"...Reynolds performs his own score to Herzog's silent forerunner, F.W. Murnau's 1932 classic Nosferatu, at the Alamo S. Lamar...."

Oct. 28, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Two for One Times Three

AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New

"...In his native Germany, Fritz Lang established his reputation..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Nosferatu With Live Musical Accompaniment by Brown Whörnet

"...Directed by: F.W. Murnau. Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Greta Schroeder and..."

March 13, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blood Feast

Shadow of the Vampire isn't just an imaginative riff on the making of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu. "It is an allegory of an aspect of what cinema is at its heart," says director E. Elias Merhige. "It's this dangerous, mad kind of science."

"...émigré who looms atop the docking death ship in F.W. Murnau's 1921 classic Nosferatu. It's an unforgettable image, filled..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Murnau

This set features six of the expressionist's most famous movies from his early years in Germany, each a masterpiece of symphonic chiaroscuro

"...MurnauKino International, $99.95..."

April 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Nosferatu Festival Celebrates Count Orlok's Centennial

The other Batman comes to town

"...will mark the 100th anniversary of the release of F.W. Murnau's "Symphony of Horror," Nosferatu. Apart from being the..."

March 4, 2022 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Last Laugh: Deluxe Restored Edition

Best known for his vampires, devils, and death-dealers, F.W. Murnau traffics here in the evils of capitalism and human cruelty

"...class consciousness. A 1924 silent film from German director F.W. Murnau, it's a study in contrasts – between the sleek,..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

Nosferatu: The Ultimate DVD Edition

One of the most influential films of all time, it's almost superfluous to discuss the film itself and its considerable merits

"...Before F.W. Murnau sunk his teeth into Count Orlok, he tackled..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Screens Review by Wells Dunbar

New Day Rising

My Education puts music to an 83-year-old silent German expressionist touchstone

"...After a few rounds of jokes and other assorted..."

April 30, 2010 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

DVDanger: 'Byzantium,' 'Kiss of the Damned,' 'Nosferatu,' 'Aeon: The Last Vampyre on Earth'

Time for a real vampire weekend

"...of the big bad blooduscking grandfather of the genre, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, in a two-disc edition from Kino Lorber...."

Nov. 17, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Nosferatu, The Golden Arm Film Project

The first release in the Alamo Drafthouse's silent-film-with-live-musical-accompaniment series is a video every self-respecting Austin hipster should own.Produced by the Co-op's Barna Kantor and the Golden Arm Trio's Graham Reynolds, this is a complete reverse of the Alamo Drafthouse's series -- these are silent films inspired by music.

"...Video) for rental.NOSFERATU (w/ score by Brown Whörnet) D: F.W. Murnau; with Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim,Greta Schröder...."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Review by Sarah Hepola

Screamlines

"...In 1897, an Irish theatrical manager by the name..."

Oct. 30, 1998 Screens Feature

Hitler's Hollywood

The Third Reich's cinematic propaganda machine exposed

"...Suchsland previously chronicled the rise and fall of Weimar..."

July 13, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sad Music for Somber People

Toasting My Education and its dearly departed

"...A Song of Two Humans, directed by F. W. Murnau, the man behind 1922's seminal vampire scare-all Nosferatu. That..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Adam Schragin

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Director Sophie Fiennes gives us this elegant examination of the highly personal artwork of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.

"...For the past 30 years, Kiefer has been primarily..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two: That Was Then

The case for improving the quality of strategic political fictions

"...is an immediate, though far more pessimistic, relative of F.W. Murnau's stunning silent film Sunrise, released two years earlier...."

Nov. 5, 2010 Column by Louis Black

No Film Left Behind

'Variety' critic Joe Leydon's program for cinema literacy

"...judged by reviewers who have never seen anything by F.W. Murnau, but now you must reconcile to critics never..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary

Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin films the Royal Winnepeg Ballet’s rendition of the Dracula story.

"...and away the most original symphony of terror since F.W. Murnau raised hackles and Schrecks with his 1922 Nosferatu...."

Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...material that had been written about the film, about F.W. Murnau, the director, and about Hans Erdmann, the composer,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Final Destination

"...great horror actors and filmmakers such as F. W. Murnau, Lon Chaney, and Val Lewton.) Another interesting quirk is..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Nosferatu Festival Celebrates the Original Cinematic Vampire

Get in on the nights of the living dead

"...feed on your blood." – Opening title card from F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, 1922..."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...this heavily fictionalized account of the making of the F.W. Murnau's silent 1922 classic Nosferatu. Looking like James Carville..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bloody Beautiful Illusions

Alejandro Jodorowsky, surrealism's topo sangre, on Truth, Beauty, and the Internet

"...AC: Despite the many obstacles you've encountered throughout your..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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