James aka Angry Video Game Nerd, takes a look at the Cabinet of Dr Caligari - a movie that is 100th years old as it was released on 26 February 1920. What do you think of the movie and the reveiw?
Your Film Studies probably didn't show enough Chaplin, Keaton, and LloydI watched it in a Film Studies class my freshman year of college and I enjoyed it. It was one of the movies I didn't fall asleep during for the early era.
Yeah this is effectively proto-BurtonAmazing film and one of the few early films to comment on mental health. The German expressionism is still striking today. Can see all the influence on later directors, especially Tim Burton.
Don't care for James Rolfe though.
I think that RHCP Otherside/Babadook charcoal-looking artstyle with weird geometric architecture and the weird slightly speed up effect of old film is extremely effective
You can definitely see how this movie inspired them
If you have any disney snow white merch you should hold onto it because in 17 years shit's gonna get nutsI saw this when I was young and was completely convinced it was a modern movie just using a silent gimmick. It just looked too creatively progressive. And I couldn't believe it when I found out it was a century old.
The me falling asleep issue was more of a college issue than a film issue. I definitely fell asleep during Battleship Potemkin and Baraka though. I don't know if we watched much more than clips of Chaplin and no ideas on the others.Your Film Studies probably didn't show enough Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd
I just watched Sherlock Jr. with Buster Keaton the other day and it felt incredibly modern with all the Inception film within a film stuff going on behind a very Jackie Chan style action comedy.I saw this when I was young and was completely convinced it was a modern movie just using a silent gimmick. It just looked too creatively progressive. And I couldn't believe it when I found out it was a century old.
I just watched Sherlock Jr. with Buster Keaton the other day and it felt incredibly modern with all the Inception film within a film stuff going on behind a very Jackie Chan style action comedy.