METROPOLIS (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)

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METROPOLIS


Every bleak exciting city

emerging monochrome from the mist

owes a little debt

to Metropolis


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College (1927)

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COLLEGE (1927)


The brilliance of Buster Keaton
in this role
is making complete failure
at absolutely everything
look like only slight
exaggeration

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Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959); short; director Stan Brakhage

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Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959)


Since seeing this film
it strobes in a private
fold in the crevices of my brain;
a sexy scary and
almost nauseous depiction
of intimacy and forces
bigger than shadows darting and
coffee cups lifting
in throbbing repetition
to lips and the
silent in and out of everyday

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Entire film can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YkOBLj9NYY&feature=PlayList&p=5175804071EF730C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=36

Early innovation in camera movement

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The Last Laugh (1924)

Mocking laughter and ironic laughter
are soundlessly the same
in this film where nothing is spoken and
nothing need be said to make it better; it's all

in the motion--of the camera! whose famous fluidity
gave birth to cinematic innovation
in 1924, in Germany, the lens

of F. W. Mirnau is unchained, to fall
down as a man's dignity is dashed, and then
to swoop up again as he becomes
the most unlikely Master of the Universe

and only the night watchman gives a damn
in this important silent gem.

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The Cult of Joan. Saint or witch?

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La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)

God works
in silence.

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