Sara Holdren’s new production for Heartbeat Opera takes its lead from Bulgakov’s Faustian novel “The Master and Margarita.” ...

Murnau takes on the folklore figure of Dr. Faust (played here by Gösta Ekman ... but still relies on silent film techniques to tell its story, which involves a vampire, a ghost and a mysterious ...

Murnau's film draws on older traditions of the legendary tale of Faust as well as on Goethe's classic 1808 version. In this classic of silent cinema, the demon Mephisto makes a bet with an archangel ...

Few found in the commercial American film industry the kind of artistic ... Also in the series: F.W. Murnau’s 1926 silent achievement “Faust” (March 9). Murnau also emigrated from Germany ...

Faust, an aged philosopher and magician who has grown weary of life and has sought in vain for the secret of eternal youth, decides, after a night's long vigil, to call forth from the realms of ...

F.W. Murnau’s “Faust,” at 7 p.m. Sunday. More than a throwback to the silent film days when each movie theater had its own dedicated musicians accompanying the latest film, these screenings ...

The Norman Studios Silent Film Museum will be concluding its month-long Silent Sundays by showing the 1926 classic film "Faust." The film, which was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, will be ...

When the curtain goes up, we are greeted by a chorus of wretched souls straight out of Sweeney Todd, and when Kaufmann’s Faust emerges ... has the face of a silent film star.

Raickopoulou's music mirrored the film's fantastical qualities with intensely-coloured string passages and some Wagner-esque brass, and wasn't afraid of a dollop of treacle for moments such as Faust's ...

There are silent film classics and then there's the monumental ... Murnau takes on the folklore figure of Dr. Faust (played ...