F. W. Murnau
4 titles · silent classical
Silent cinema arguing that the camera can narrate alone. Murnau moved the camera when almost nobody did, built forced-perspective sets, and told stories with so few intertitles that the image had to carry everything.
Signature
- The unchained camera — mobile where contemporaries were static.
- Expressionist sets, forced perspective and painted depth.
- Near-total avoidance of intertitles.
- Light and shadow as moral register.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Faust
The Last Laugh
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