F. W. Murnau Articles
Max Schreck, NOSFERATU: Top Five Scariest Living Dead
Max Schreck, Nosferatu (1922) The Movies’ Top Five Scariest Living Dead Many consider F. W. Murnau's 1927 romantic melodrama Sunrise to be his masterpiece. As far as I'm concerned, nothing Murnau did that I've seen beats Nosferatu, thanks in large part to Herr Schreck, the movies' most un-debonair vampire. Werner Herzog's 1979 remake starring Klaus Kinski was stylish and visually engrossing, but it lacked the [...]
Buster Keaton, SUNRISE, THE CAT AND THE CANARY: San Francisco Silent Film Festival Screenings
Martha Mattox, Laura La Plante in The Cat and the Canary (top); Buster Keaton in Our Hospitality (bottom) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival will present a special series of screenings on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14, at the Castro Theatre. The screening films are the Buster Keaton vehicle Our Hospitality (1923), the Russian comedy A Kiss from Mary Pickford (1927), F. W. Murnau's Academy [...]
Best Films – 1922: F. W. Murnau's NOSFERATU, John Gilbert, Seena Owen
Ok, so Max Schreck (literally, Max Fright) was not romantic leading man material, but he did quite well for himself as the creepiest vampire of them all, Nosferatu. Those who think of director F. W. Murnau as the creator of film poetry in pictures such as Sunrise and Tabu should realize that Murnau was equally adept at creating sheer horror. No other vampire movie I've [...]