Nosferatu (1922)
Murnau's 1922 Nosferatu invented vampire cinema and still frightens a century later. The estate sued anyway and won, and a court ordered every copy destroyed.
Tag: 1920s
Films released between 1920 and 1929, when the medium had a decade of grammar behind it and no sound yet. Everything a scene needed had to arrive through composition, editing and performance, which produced a directness later filmmaking often lost. The reviews collected here cover the German and Soviet work alongside the American comedies, with attention to the technique that survived into the sound era and the technique that did not.
