Most people these days know F.W. Murnau for his silent classic Nosferatu, but many have argued that his best work came after he emigrated to America and went to work for Fox. Specifically, Sunrise: a ...

The silent film era ended for most intents and purposes in 1927. The death happened slowly, as movie theaters were outfitted for the emergence of sound, and seismically, as The Jazz Singer became a ...

In its first year—and only in its first year—the Academy Awards split its top honors for best film into two categories: Best Picture and Unique and Artistic Production. And, having made manifest the ...

If you’ve never seen F.W. Murnau’s 1927 silent masterpiece “Sunrise” — and most moviegoers haven’t — you’ve missed one of the most astonishingly beautiful black-and-white films ever made, a marvel of ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) has occasionally been called the greatest movie of all time—and while I’m not ...

IT WAS ONE of Hollywood’s darkest days – July 9, 1937 – when a devastating fire swept through the Fox Film Corporation film storage facility in Little Ferry, N.J., and original camera negatives for ...

Once every decade, Sight and Sound, the estimable monthly magazine of the British Film Institute, takes a poll of critics and directors around the world, asking them to name their 10 favorite motion ...

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 ...

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 ...