![]() By frisky contrast, Waxworks moves at a lively clip, spinning a string of stories (either three or four, depending on how you count) with a variety of moods, tempos, and settings. But the deliberate rhythms and unhurried narratives of such otherwise magisterial productions as Paul Wegener’s The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920), Arthur Robison’s Warning Shadows (1923), and Henrik Galeen’s The Student of Prague (1926) are more conducive to analysis and contemplation than to the kinetic enjoyment provided by movies with less rarefied creative agendas. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)-are as dexterously entertaining as they are aesthetically radical. Caligari (1920), Karlheinz Martin’s From Morn to Midnight (1920), F. All of the greatest German Expressionist films are photographically atmospheric, architecturally inventive, and psychologically magnetic, and some-Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. A Flicker Alley release.Ī defining feature of Paul Leni’s 1924 classic Waxworks, known as Das Wachsfigurenkabinett in its native Germany, is that it’s terrific fun to watch. ![]() ![]() Blu-ray and DVD, color tinted, 81 min., 1924. Produced by Leo Birinsky and Alexander Kwartiroff directed by Paul Leni screenplay by Henrik Galeen cinematography by Helmar Lerski art direction by Paul Leni and Alfred Junge starring Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Kraus, Wilhelm Dieterle, Olga Belajeff, John Gottowt, Paul Biensfeldt, and Ernst Legal. ![]()
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