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Nosferatu (1922)
Topic Started: Nov 25 2009, 08:45 AM (217 Views)
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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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Murnau is credited with helping to introduce the montage
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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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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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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