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| Laughing Gravy | Yesterday, 8:45 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 | Yesterday, 1:13 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, Yesterday, 1:13 PM.
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| AndyFish | Yesterday, 5:08 PM Post #3 |
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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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