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does anyone else enjoy his films? I saw "Tabu" last night, it was fascinating the way even in a film set in the South Seas he manages to make doors the centre of everything. Plus the old guy looked like Nosferatu, and left the same shadow.

― DV, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yeah, he's been sort of consigned to living out his legacy in Fritz Lang's shadows but his films are visually beautiful. perhaps he didn't have the same 'woo inner psychological trauma manifest in odd physical representations with funny chiaroscuro lighting as allegory for moral political and societal upheaval!' thing going on as Lang.

but pretty pretty films.

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think he's better than Lang... his films have better plots, better dream sequences, lots of doors, shadows and so on. And Nosferatu is my favourite film ever, apart from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

did anyone read that "Nosferatu In Love" novel about him? A bit lame as a novel but interesting for biographical details.

― DV, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like the idea of Who Framed Nosferatu?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like "Faust" the best, actually. I felt like that was the point when all of Murnau's ideas were best executed. Incidentally: has anyone seen the recent Nosferatu DVD reissue with the woeful new score and stilted, read-from-paper commentary?

:jek

― jek, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

... http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/14/nosferatu-director-head-stolen-germany-grave-fw-murnau

― EDB, Thursday, 16 July 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link

six months pass...

Emil Jannings as Tartuffe will haunt my sleep tonight

http://www.cinema.online.lu/loi/MovieImg/2013/2/20130227160453_5336.jpg

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 January 2016 00:37 (eight years ago) link

wow, Tabu... just has the rhythm and flow of a symphony.

David Crosby's father Floyd won the Oscar for his cinematography. He later did High Noon and Beach Blanket Bingo.

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 24 January 2016 07:39 (eight years ago) link

http://idata.over-blog.com/1/69/88/74/JUNI2012/September12/Vader-en-zoon.jpg

― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Sunday, 24 January 2016 09:22 (eight years ago) link

nine months pass...

anyone seen the resto of his oldest surviving film, The Dark Road?

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/2512?locale=en

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 November 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

I've only just found out he was 6 ft 11 tall!!!!

― womp womp that sucker (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 June 2018 09:42 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

Apparently Murnau's true height is the subject of much debate.

I was way too sleep-deprived to get the most out of Faust at MoMA last night -- restored version with formerly excised subtitles by Gerhart Hauptmann.

Emil Jannings' Mephisto is his broadest perf I've seen yet, and that's saying a lot. I did find the second half a bit less exciting and jaw-dropping than the first.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 January 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

I loved all of the surreal visual moments in Faust

also the film-within-a-film of Tartuffe

― Dan S, Monday, 3 June 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link

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