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...Including F.W. Murnau's classic 1922 Nosferatu, the celebrated 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, Roman Polanski's 1967 black comedy The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck, a 1970 skinflick called Does Dracula Suck? and the 1974 X-rated Andy Warhol's Dracula...
HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH, Balloonatic by Buster Keaton, and French CanCan by Jean Renoir, May 10, 8 $1, Faust by F.W. Murnau, with Emil Jannings...
Nosferatu. F.W. Murnau's 1921 film was the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first...
ADAMS HOUSE FILM SOCIETY opens its season with Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause Saturday at 8 and 10:15 in the Dining Hall...City Girl by Murnau and "Raindance" and "Color Film" will be presented at the HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH tonight. The program begins at 7:30 p.m...H-R Students for McGovern are showing Milhous at 8 tonight in BURR A...Citizen Kane is back, at HARKNESS COMMONS Saturday night...
...called it "a spiritual island in the great world." This was in 1897, at the height of the Jugendstil, or Art Nouveau, movement. What Kandinsky go from Art Nouveau was not so much its airy, sinuous quality as its decorative way of filling space: a painting like Landscape near Murnau, as late a; 1909, is full of references to the style with its slow, thick contour of white cloud, its carefully silhouetted forms ol green hill and pink road...