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Post by topbilled on Jan 30, 2023 5:20:49 GMT
Billy Wilder...Fritz Lang...Douglas Sirk...Robert Siodmak...Curtis Bernhardt...Henry Koster
These were some of the best directors working in Hollywood during the production code era.
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Post by gerald424 on Jan 31, 2023 1:51:46 GMT
I love the whole German Expressionist era in Germany (before it was co opted by the government). That era was so influential to such genres as Horror, Noir, and so many other parts of what made movies during the classic period so special.
Those directors who came over had a unique perspective based on what WWI as well as the aftermath and what was going on in Germany in the 1930's. I feel that they put that into their films. Although sometimes the code had issue with their subject matter. It still ended up in making great films.
I'm still in the process of watching many of them.
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Post by vannorden on Mar 19, 2023 19:06:20 GMT
I love the whole German Expressionist era in Germany (before it was co opted by the government). That era was so influential to such genres as Horror, Noir, and so many other parts of what made movies during the classic period so special.
Those directors who came over had a unique perspective based on what WWI as well as the aftermath and what was going on in Germany in the 1930's. I feel that they put that into their films. Although sometimes the code had issue with their subject matter. It still ended up in making great films.
I'm still in the process of watching many of them.
I agree! Another excellent art movement that emerged in Germany's interwar period was New Objectivity––the antithesis of German Expressionism. In lieu of abstract visual language associated with Expressionism, filmmakers like G.W. Pabst, Berthold Viertel, and Gerhard Lamprecht opted for a more realistic depiction of the depressing realities of life in postwar Germany. |
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Post by NoShear on Mar 25, 2023 22:10:44 GMT
F. W. Murnau crossed the proverbial pond and brought some elements of German Expression with him for his American debut that included the architectural stalagmite element to the Big City yield of fantasy in SUNRISE: A Song of Two Humans... The Murnau movie was screened for TCM's recent look at the first Academy Awards statues, and it's interesting to note that SUNRISE was one of at least two films celebrated during the 1929 inaugural which were directed by a pair of former WWI aerial combat soldiers. William A. Wellman's WINGS, of course, being the other.  Said to have survived multiple crashes while serving as a gunner/observer in the Imperial German Air Service, F. W. Murnau ironically was killed in a California car crash in 1931. |
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