The Art of Cinema

the magick that films and television produce

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Orphans of the Storm-1921-Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee

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Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

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[thewisecrackingtwenties]

MONSTERS FROM THE 1920s (from top to bottom)

Lon Chaney as The Phantom in The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) gifting us with one of the scariest monsters in cinema history.

Conrad Veidt as Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary (1920) one of the films that launched the German Expressionism movement.

Max Schreck as Count Orlok in Nosferatu (1922) the first movie about the now legendary Dracula. 

Brigitte Helm as the iconic robot Maria in Metropolis (1927) a cinematic achievement of gigantics proportions. 

Benjamin Christensen as The Devil in Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages (1922) the most horrifying silent film you will ever watch. 

Paul Wegener as The Golem in Der Golem (1920) another expressionist jewel you should not miss. 

Conradt Veidt as Gywnplaine in The Man Who Laughs (1928). He does not play a monster or villan here, he is rather the victim of sick people and nasty royalty. I had to include him for this portrayal has become part of the Horror Culture for ever. 

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LA JOIE DE VIVRE (1934), by Courtland Hector Hoppin and Anthony Gross.

[thewisecrackingtwenties]

Incredible poster for Nosferatu (1922) by Murnau.

[devaneiossuspensos]

The Knick + Get The Rope

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The Knick (2014)

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This is an accurate representation of how the Beatles arrived in my life and ruined it! ^^ 

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Hans Richter, Film Studies 1925

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Jed portrayed the shapeshifting alien taking the form of a Norwegian dog in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). Jed was half-wolf, half Canadian malamute, and according to Carpenter, was an excellent animal actor—after becoming familiar with the cast and crew, he would not look at the camera, crew, or dolly during scenes. Jed’s quiet manner perfectly reflected the alien’s unsettling nature. Jed would go on to act in a few other movies, and lived on his trainer Clint Rowe’s animal sanctuary until his death at age eighteen—quite old for a dog of his breed.

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Popeye and Wimpy tripping on psilocybin in the woods 

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WHITE ZOMBIE (1932)