The Movie Book

19 Painters were also drawn to the screen, and in 1929, the famed Surrealist Salvador Dalí worked with a young movie fanatic nam ...

20 LABOR OMNIA VINCIT A TRIP TO THE MOON / 1902 A s its title suggests, the 12-minute-long movie A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage d ...

VISIONARIES 21 When they reach the moon, the scientists discover a strange land. Their arrogant attitude toward the moon people ...

22 OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING INTOLERANCE / 1916 O ne of the most influential movies ever made, Intolerance is truly ep ...

VISIONARIES 23 Jesus drags his cross through jeering crowds in the movie’s biblical story. The central courtyard in Babylon was ...

I MUST BECOME CALIGARI! THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI / 1920 ...

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The somnambulist Cesare, who, the viewer is told, has been in a sleeping trance for 23 years, is roused by Caligari and fed sitt ...

Cesare carries away Francis’s sweetheart, Jane, through a landscape resembling the aftermath of World War I, which had ended jus ...

28 WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN / 1925 S ergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was commissioned by the Soviet a ...

VISIONARIES 29 What else to watch: Strike (1925) ■ October (1928) ■ Man With a Movie Camera (1929) ■ The Untouchables (1987) ■ J ...

30 THIS SONG OF THE MAN AND HIS WIFE IS OF NO PLACE AND EVERY PLACE SUNRISE / 1927 I n 1927, one movie changed the course of cin ...

VISIONARIES 31 sensationalist story of sex, death, violence, and betrayal. But will the man commit murder? With her black bob, s ...

32 THOSE WHO TOILED KNEW NOTHING OF THE DREAMS OF THOSE WHO PLANNED METROPOLIS / 1927 M any movies have journeyed into the futur ...

VISIONARIES 33 What else to watch: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, pp.24–27) ■ The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, p.52) ■ Moder ...

34 What else to watch: Our Hospitality (1923) ■ Sherlock, Jr. (1924) ■ The Navigator (1924) ■ The General (1926) ■ The Cameraman ...

VISIONARIES 35 What else to watch: Sunrise (1927, pp.30–31) ■ Va mpy r (1932) ■ Day of Wrath (1943) ■ Ordet (1955) ■ Gertrud (19 ...

36 What else to watch: Shanghai Express (1932) ■ Blonde Venus (1932) ■ Desire (1936) ■ Destry Rides Again (1939) ■ Cabaret (1972 ...

VISIONARIES 37 What else to watch: The Bicycle Thief (1948, pp.94–97) ■ À bout de souffle (1960, pp.166–67) ■ Saturday Night and ...

TOMORROW THE BIRDS WILL SING CITY LIGHTS / 1931 ...