Most people these days know F.W. Murnau for his silent classic Nosferatu, but many have argued that his best work came after he emigrated to America and went to work for Fox. Specifically, Sunrise: a ...

In its first year—and only in its first year—the Academy Awards split its top honors for best film into two categories: Best Picture and Unique and Artistic Production. And, having made manifest the ...

Rich, strange and gorgeous, F.W. Murnau’s “Sunrise” (1927) shows what an artist of the late silent era could accomplish cinematically, backed by an open checkbook and fueled by the highest aspirations ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) has occasionally been called the greatest movie of all time—and while I’m not ...

Movies come and go — I’m sure a few came and went during this dash clause — but there is only one “Sunrise.” In his aspirational heyday, just as Hollywood studios were reckoning with the threat and ...

Once every decade, Sight and Sound, the estimable monthly magazine of the British Film Institute, takes a poll of critics and directors around the world, asking them to name their 10 favorite motion ...

The German director F. W. Murnau thought big; for his first American film, “Sunrise,” from 1927, he had a mile-long trolley track laid from the suburbs to the city and filmed from the perspective of ...

Mention F.W. Murnau and discussion inevitably drifts towards his obvious masterpieces: his German Expressionism classic Nosferatu, his near dialogue-free (without title cards, anyway) The Last Laugh, ...