Word: caligaris
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...other element of any earlier film. If you are a pretentious critic, your references should be as obscure or as foreign as possible. For example: "The moody tone of the film was evocative of the German Expressionist style of the 1920s, best expressed in 'The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari." If you are a populist critic tie it in to the season's big hit: "This was another "Jurassic Park," Only without the dinosaurs...
...Henri Langlois knew this when he opened a Paris movie museum 16 years ago in his Cinematheque Francaise. Inside the front door, Psycho's mummified Mother Bates lurked behind a window. Against the back wall, German expressionism ran riot in a full-scale set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The museum was like an EKG of a national intelligence that can find value in both Jean-Luc Godard and Jerry Lewis...
...CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI To the staff: It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Vice President Zinc Savage, who comes to us from the SWAT division of the Philadelphia police department, where "Old Firing Squad," as he was known . . .; Out of paper; "The boss would like to see you, Smith. Now"; "How about lunch some time?"; Dictated but not signed; "That's a no-brainer, Smith"; "Does Mr. Harris know what this call is in regard to?"; Signed but not dictated; "Let's lunch"; Out of ink; Not dictated, not signed; "Ever free for lunch...
...middle movement, to Façades, is as serene as its predecessor is clamorous. A lyrical melody floats above a simple, slightly shifting rhythmic pattern. A shadowy frieze of girls, tracing small, varied steps, embodies the pattern; two dancers (Maria Caligari, Bart Cook) perform a sinuous pas de deux to the melody. This is a mesmerizing piece. The last segment, to a boisterous excerpt from Glass's opera Akhnaten, is what his fans call "very Jerry": arms up, fingers splayed, keep it moving, get it right the first time. Across, around, up and down the stage sweep cadres...
German cinema has given the world a cast of characters as varied as the diabolical Dr. Caligari and the sultry chanteuse of Blue Angel. But none was ever quite like the film heroine that has recently drawn West German audiences to the movies in droves-Christiane F.: We Children from the Zoo Station. The protagonist starts off as a teen-age prostitute and drug addict who haunts the squalid fringes of West Germany's affluent society. On the screen, when she is not listening to David Bowie tapes in the labyrinthine subway corridors of the station near Berlin...