Movies come and go — I’m sure a few came and went during this dash clause — but there is only one “Sunrise.” In his aspirational heyday, just as Hollywood studios were reckoning with the threat and ...

“For wherever the sun rises and sets, in the city’s turmoil or under the open sky on the farm, life is much the same; sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.” SUNRISE won three Oscars at the very first ...

The German director F. W. Murnau thought big; for his first American film, “Sunrise,” from 1927, he had a mile-long trolley track laid from the suburbs to the city and filmed from the perspective of ...

The first time film composer Joe Kraemer watched F.W. Murnau’s silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, he was on a plane, flying to Austria to teach a film music workshop. The trip turned out to be ...

When silent film really succeeds, the fact that there's no dialogue track, completely fades away. Only a musical score and perhaps a few intertitles can allow the images standing alone to be all the ...

TEMPORARY MIRTH Emil Jannings (in uniform) in a scene from ‘The Last Laugh’—before he starred in Nazi-themed movies for Hitler. Two years after Nosferatu set the bar for every horror pic that followed ...