Writer/director Mike Cheslik’s feature debut Hundreds of Beavers opens – and remains – in the wild frontier lands around Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, some time during the 18th or 19th Century. There, Jean Kayak (co-writer Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) in many ways embodies the American Dream. For he is a rugged individualist and venture capitalist who…
Sunrise first published by EyeforFilm, 3 Dec 2005 After his film The Last Laugh (1926) was met with critical rapture (if not quite box office success) in America, F.W. Murnau was lured to Hollywood by William Fox’s offer of a blank cheque and carte blanche to make any film he pleased. The result was Sunrise, loosely adapted…
Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) first published by Film4 Summary: F.W. Murnau’s expressionist horror – and the world’s first vampire film – still casts its long shadow over the history of both Germany and cinema. Review: Sometimes a single sequence can come to encapsulate not only the film in which it appears, but a whole style…