Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” was already the most meta movie released this year, but one scene cut from the ...
Ball's adaptation, as directed by Jed Allen Harris, imagines the show-within-a-show as an unfinished adaptation by Bertolt Brecht. We are in East Germany, circa the early 1970s, where Brecht's widow ...
At its heart, is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari an anti-authoritarian call for rebellion, an object lesson in conformity, or an allegory about how we are all mere pawns lost in a culture gone completely ...
In 1995 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema, its origins in brief films that explored the new medium’s possibilities and especially the contest between reality and fantasy. Now ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s actually kind of surprising, given how foundational it is to the art of horror in cinema, that nobody’s ever landed a really ...
Over 50 production stills and set photos from the making of the German Expressionist classic are selling for upwards of $13,000. A collection of 55 still photos from the 1919-1920 production of “The ...
At its root, cinema gets ideas and imagination on to the screen. This is arguably the first successful attempt to show the workings of a highly disturbed and fractured mind. Producer Erich Pommer ...
If I told you that Robert Wiene’s 1919 German Expressionist classic “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” had been remade, you’d probably dismiss it sight unseen. Why fool around with one of the most ...