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| Laughing Gravy | Nov 25 2009, 08:45 AM Post #1 |
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As much as I love The Last Laugh (I think it's the best movie made in the pre-1930 silent era) and Sunrise, my only viewing of Nosferatu - on TV in the '70s in a rotten print - left me unimpressed. Having since seen it in a GOOD print, I of course rank it as one of the great ones. Roger Ebert this week added it to his "Great Films" list, and it's one of his better movie essays, too, I think. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970928/REVIEWS08/401010345/1023 |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Nov 25 2009, 01:13 PM Post #2 |
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Ebert says, but he should know better. Montage, even in the limited sense in which he uses the term (which actually just means 'editing') had been around for almost a decade before Murnau started making movies, as my "Griffith project" thread documents in some detail -- and of course Intolerance has any number of montage sequences, including practically the whole last hour. Why an American critic would want to give credit for such a thing to a German Johnny-come-lately is one of life's little mysteries. Perhaps just a brain heck on Ebert's part. Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Nov 25 2009, 01:13 PM.
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| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| AndyFish | Nov 25 2009, 05:08 PM Post #3 |
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Movie Watcha Foist Class
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I showed this to a group of my college students a few months ago and they were impressed with it. Many said they thought it was geniunely scary. Big words from a generation raised on the SAW films. |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Nov 28 2009, 09:10 AM Post #4 |
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Yeah, when I showed it to the college kids back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, they loved it and found it scary too -- and of course I didn't have the beautiful print we have today. |
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