Free online-public domain.
Nosferatu=The first - and unauthorized - version of Dracula is a masterpiece of German expressionism, with a ghoulish Max Schreck as the blood-sucking fiend “Count Orlok.” Its play of light and shadow is gorgeous, especially for such an early film, and still creepy. Nosferatu set some of the early screen conventions for vampires to come, including vile eroticism and death by sunlight for the bad guy.
“M” 1921 A classic suspense thriller, “M“ was German director Fritz Lang’s first film with sound, and sound features brilliantly in the plot. With Peter Lorre cast in the role of a serial child killer, the film is a race between the police and Berlin’s underworld to find and catch the killer, and was so effective that Lorre was typecast as a villain for years thereafter
see Lang’s Metropolis.
I think there would also be some value in watching Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin in terms of silent story telling:)
Nice, thank you
ReplyDeleteViva Buster Keaton & Charlie Chaplin - "Modern Times" is one of my other all time faves.
ReplyDeletegreat movie to watch.
ReplyDeletethe Detroit Film theatre in the DIA show it every year at halloween with a live orchestra playing the music and sound effects.
really awesome to experience and an awesome note on how film can be so powerful even after so long.