Word: caligaris
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...fact there is only one outstandingly good performance from Lithgow's cast, and that is turned in by Laurence Senelick, who creates a Doctor, half Caligari, half Hackenbusch and all genius. I only hope he will work out better make-up and get to look less like an albino wolfman. Mary Moss makes a good Marie, and a very pretty one, but she swallows what should be her most moving lines--those addressed to an unforgiving...
...film and naturally there's plenty of pseudo-classic montage, dramatic sky and stark, navel-level camera work, but the really exciting footage owes something to the early German directors. Wasn't it Robert Weine who painted the foreboding expressionist shadows on the set of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? And Carl Mayer who strapped a camera on Carl Freund, the "drunk" camera man of The Last Laugh...
Giacometti, from Cezanne to Soutine, from an early Picasso to the latest Henry Moore, on such a scale that no museum or private collection in the world can match it. An enormous black two-story hall houses a kind of cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Absurd Berlin Diary of Emilio Vedova, with collapsible hinged parts jagging out in a variety of Gothic shapes. Three Paintings in Space by Ernst Wilhelm Nay are obliquely suspended from the ceiling of an otherwise entirely empty hall...
Homeland Corn. From the beginning, Kuba saw no sense in emulating the few great pictures of prewar Germany, e.g., M, Blue Angel, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. She specialized in Heimatschnulzen (homeland corn)-movies of rural love and village violence...
...Peace isn't half as bad as people say it is. Continuous at the U.T. Brattle presents Emil Jannings' Last Laugh and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Giant, Lust for Life, and Rififi are still around in town...