Wednesday (not Tuesday!) February 9, 2011 at 21:15
WHITE NEW CINEMA / 6 AMERICAN
AURORA / Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's SUNRISE (USA, 1927)
b / w, silent, 97 min.
"The most beautiful film of all time." (Truffaut)
Stanley Donen Thirty years before that would use split-screen to put Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in bed together (*), already used the Murnau Margaret Livingstone overlays to dance to the music of an orchestra only imagined, fourteen years before Orson Welles, Murnau already resumed in the foreground the glasses resting on the bedside with the windows in the background in sharp focus, sixty years before Soderbergh and Tarantino, Murnau already used the light and the (non) colors to give emotional weight to the different moments of the protagonist (...). Equipped with the courage to experiment with every possible technical solution and the ability to not overdo anything, always managing to really understand what was necessary to film, Murnau surprise here in every scene, making us laugh, making us move and making us hold your breath at will. (Alberto Cassani)
Winner of two Academy Awards: best film and best production.
A delight for the eye, says your projectionist
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homework: (*) in that film?
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