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F.W. Murnau's Symphonic Vision |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: Gary Arnold |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2005 |
| Size: 795 Words, 5,359 Characters |
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During World War I, a fellow officer described Lt. Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe, destined to be known to movie posterity as F.W. Murnau, as "a curious mixture of wandering gypsy and cultivated gentleman." Admirers of the German director's enduring films probably would concur that signs of both estrangement and sophistication, especially pictorial sophistication, distinguish his work.
The Murnau filmography ranges thematically from Nosferatu, the 1922 granddaddy of vampire classics, to Tabu, a haunted romantic idyll about fugitive Polynesian lovers that prematurely concluded a brilliant silent-film career in 1931. A sizable portion of his surviving w...
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... Although his films became renowned for artful lighting and composition, he insisted that the goal was something more visionary than picturesque. "There should be no such thing as 'an interesting camera angle,' " he once argued. "The angle itself has no significance, and if it does not intensify the dramatic effect of the scene, it can even be harmful."
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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