"It isn't just the characters who have gone insane, but almost the environment itself." Can films from the early days of cinema still influence movies being made today? Of course they can! And they ...

German Expressionist films are not exactly popular fodder for the contemporary remake machine. Most are silent and at least a century old, and almost all of them are the product of artists tapped into ...

Husband and wife Michael Maltzan and Amy Murphy partnered up to create the installation for the LACMA exhibition Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s . Hear them talk about their design and the ...

"He influenced me in the way I’m not afraid of clear cinematic gestures," Guadagnino said of Spielberg. When it comes to influencing other filmmakers, Steven Spielberg is unparalleled among modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part German Expressionist throwback, part tripped-out midnight movie acid trip, “The Twentieth” Century is a visionary, and highly ...

American writer-director Robert Eggers is making an impressive bid to be one of the leading filmmakers associated with the ’20s—the 1920s, when the crepuscular, emotion-laden style we now call German ...

Clocks had a big, and usually ominous, presence in movies made between the two world wars. By David Belcher Clocks, and the relentless progress of time, often loom as terrifying as Nosferatu’s fangs ...

The years between the end of World War I and the rise of Hitler were tough times for the German people as they were recovering from a monstrous defeat. Still, aspects of German life were humming. 1919 ...