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Jul 26, 2023 · Sunrise is both joyous and piercing, and gorgeously filmed: Murnau’s sense of invention was outshone only by his deep, radiant affection for his troubled characters. In the years following ...
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (also known as Sunrise) is a 1927 American synchronized sound romantic drama directed by German director F. W. Murnau (in his American film debut) and starring George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, and Margaret Livingston.
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Sunrise tells the story of The Man (George O’Brien) and The Wife (Janet Gaynor) whose quiet married life on the farmhouse is turned upside down by the appearance of The Woman From the City (Margaret Livingston). The charming woman tries to persuade The Man to quit his miserable life and follow her to the big city. Seduced, The Man meditates on gett...
Murnau is regarded today as one of the major exponents of German Expressionism: an avant-garde German cinema with a revolutionary style that spread between the 1910s and 1920s to deal with the bewilderment and despair of the German people after World War I. Murnau’s works are especially the result of experimentation. Just like Sunrise which is his ...
The release of Sunrise, in September 1927, coincides with a very important moment for cinematography. Just one month later, the official debut of the sound era took place with Alan Crosland‘s movie The Jazz Singer. Actually, Sunrise is halfway between silent and sound. In the movie, the characters do not speak and there are still captions. The nove...
It is not easy to put Sunriseinto a single category due to its complex nature. Certainly, the movie features recurring themes that belong to Murnau’s filmography: the shadow; the dark side; the struggle against oneself; the border between fantasy and reality. But Murnau goes beyond the motif and aesthetics of Expressionism, telling the story of two...
Jan 28, 2004 · Contrasting the rolling hills of the countryside with the hustle and bustle of the big city, Sunrise takes us on a journey between two worlds as George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor...
Mar 23, 2010 · William Fox could charge audiences an absurdly high two dollars to see his prestige picture, which won an Oscar for its “Artistic Quality of Production.” Janet Gaynor won the first female acting Oscar for her work on Sunrise, Borzage’s Seventh Heaven, and Street Angel.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans < The Greatest Films of All Time Associated with 1920s German Expressionism, with its exaggerated sets and lighting techniques, F.W. Murnau brought the style with him to Hollywood for this expensive super-production.
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Nov 9, 2009 · With Sunrise, Murnau put the money provided by Fox to good use. Although nearly the entire movie transpires outside, almost everything was filmed in a studio, parts of which were transformed to represent The Man's farm, the nearby marshes, the city, and the amusement park.
