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BURNING SOIL (MURNAU)
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This extremely rare film by Murnau is a dramatically adventuresome story of peasants and the land. Wladimir Gaidarow is a proud, ambitious man who becomes secretary to a Count (Werner Krauss). He moves his affections from the Count's daughter (Lya de Putti) to the Count's young second wife (Stella Arbenina) when he realizes she will inherit an estate which stands on a petroleum oil field. Silent with English titles. Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1922---98 mins.
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CITY GIRL
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An extremely rare film by Friedrich Murnau, made during his tenure in Hollywood. Originally made as a silent film under the title Our Daily Bread in 1928, producers at Fox shortened the picture, added a soundtrack, then released it in 1930 under the title City Girl. The film, often compared favorably with Sunrise, was shot by Ernest Palmer, and revolves around the intertwined lives of wheat farmers. Silent with music track. Friedrich W. Murnau---USA---1928---118 mins.
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F.W. MURNAU COLLECTION
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Five films from one of the greatest directors of the German silent cinema are collected in this exclusive boxed set. Includes the horror masterpiece Nosferatu (1922, 93 mins.); the expressionist classic The Last Laugh (1924, 91 mins.); the cinematic revision of Moliere's stageplay Tartuffe (1926, 63 mins.), with the documentary portrait The Way to Murnau (Alexander Bohr, 35 mins.); the definitive screen treatment of the fable Faust (1926, 116 mins.); and Murnau's collaboration with Rober t Flaherty, the South Seas epic Tabu (1931, 81 mins.). Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1922-31---479 mins.
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FAUST (2DISCS MURNAU)
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Murnau's last German production before going to Hollywood is a lavish one, based on Goethe's play and inspired by Romantic painters like Caspar David Friedrich. Gosta Ekman is the elderly professor who sells his soul to the devil. Emil Jannings plays Mephistopheles and Camilla Horn is Marguerite. "No director ever succeeded in conjuring up the supernatural as masterfully as this" (Lotte Eisner, The Haunted Screen). Silent with English Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1926---116 mins.
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FINANCES OF THE GRAND DUKE
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Before embarking on The Last Laugh, F.W. Murnau deviated from the doom and gloom market he cornered with Nosferatu by making this farcical thriller about the fictional Grand Duke Don Ramon XX (Harry Liedtke), whose tiny nation of Abacco is being threatened by bankruptcy and revolt. Co-starring Mady Christians as a wealthy foreign princess to be wooed, and Max Schreck as a fiendish conspirator. Script by Thea von Harbou. Cinematography by Franz Planer and Mr. Unchained Camera himself, Karl Freund. Also known as The Grand Duke's Finances. Silent with music by Ekkehard Wolk. Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1923---77 mins.
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HAUNTED CASTLE, THE (MURNAU)
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From the director of Nosferatu comes this 1921 expressionist horror/mystery, set in a northern German castle shrouded in a moody atmosphere.
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LAST LAUGH, THE
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One of the major works of German silent cinema, Murnau's classic stars Emil Jannings and features the "unchained" camerawork of Karl Freund (I Love Lucy).
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MURNAU SIX FILMS
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You can't swing a dead vampire without hitting F.W. Murnau's name in a film history textbook, and this set contains six of his greatest German silent films. Includes newly-restored editions of Nosferatu (1922, 94 mins.), The Last Laugh (1924, 91 mins.) and Faust (1926, 106 mins.), as well as the restored, authorized editions of The Haunted Castle (1921, 81 mins.), The Finances of the Grand Duke (1923, 77 mins.) and Tartuffe (1925, 63 mins.). Silent with music scores. Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1921-1926---412 mins.
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MURNAU, BORZAGE AND FOX
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This massive Fox box set contains 12 late silent and early sound pictures directed by the great Frank Borzage and German emigre F.W. Murnau.
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NOSFERATU (ULTIMATE EDITION)
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The definitive vampire movie. One of Murnau's most recognizable films, Nosferatu's eerie telling of the Dracula story was filmed on location in the mountains, towns, and castles of Bavaria. This German expressionist "symphony of horror" is unlike its contemporaries. Instead of Dr. Caligari's wild sets, the whole of nature in Nosferatu is brought to an expressionist level, turning from pure and fresh to twisted and sinister as Hutter descends into Count Orlok's world. Restored, color tinted, and speed Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1922---94 mins.
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NOSFERATU: FIRST VAMPIRE
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Digitally remastered version of Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, hosted by David Carradine, with music by Type O Negative and their music video "Black No. 1." Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany/USA---1922/1997---75 mins.
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PHANTOM (MURNAU)
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A rare film from the man behind Nosferatu and Sunrise, presented freshly restored and reconstructed with original tints from a 1922 negative, produced in collaboration with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation. Alfre d Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) stars as a fame and wealth-obsessed man who confronts class barriers keeping him from a woman. An important relic of film history. In English with a new score by Robert Israel. Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1922---145 mins.
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STUDIO CLASSICS BEST PICTURE
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Four gems of the early Hollywood studio system are featured in this exclusive set, including the long-overdue DVD release of F.W. Murnau's silent classic, Sunrise (1927, 97 mins.), his first Hollywood film, but scripted with Carl Mayer in Germany. A near perfect film that concerns the marriage of a peasant couple whose honeymoon in the big city is detoured by a sultry seductress. In the 1941 Best Picture Oscar-winner, How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941, 118 mins.), an offscreen narrator reflects on his life and work in a poetic and beautiful rendering of Welsh village life. Stellar performances highlight Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947, 118 mins.), about a talented journalist (Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew in order to research a series of articles about anti-Semitism and discovers a dark and disturbing backlash experienced by his family. With Celeste Holm in an Oscar-winning role. Six Oscars were awarded to All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950, 138 mins.), a cynical and entertaining examination of life as it exists on the Broadway theatre scene. Bette Davis glows as the aging star being undermined by her protege Anne Baxter, as Eve Harrington. Friedrich W. Murnau/John Ford/Elia Kazan/Joseph L. Mankiewicz---USA---1927/1941/1947/1950---471 mins.
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TABU
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Filmed entirely in Tahiti, Tabu represents an unusual collaboration between legendary directors F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty. Combining Flaherty's poetic sense of the native people with Murnau's strong filmic sensibilities, the film tells the story of two lovers doomed by a tribal edict decreeing the beautiful princess as "tabu" to all men. "Murnau is one of the great masters. The beautiful restoration of Tabu will enable future generations to enjoy and appreciate his inspiring talent" (Martin Scorsese). Friedrich W. Murnau---USA---1931---84 mins.
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TARTUFFE (MURNAU)
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F.W. Murnau's (Nosferatu, Last Laugh) brilliant silent adaptation of Moliere's play Tartuffe features the great Emil Jannings in a larger-than-life portrait of the classic hypocrite. Newly mastered from a 35m m print, with the original English inter-titles. Carl Mayer adapted Moliere's play for the screen. With Lil Dagover, Luise Hoflich and Werner Krauss as Friedrich W. Murnau---Germany---1925---63 mins.
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