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Friedrich Wilheim Murnau, along with Fritz Lang,
was one of Germany's greatest silent film directors.
The first half of the 1920s found German filmmaking
deep within their Golden Age of Expressionism; This
period was ushered in by the very influential Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari shown earlier this year at Sheldon Art
Gallery). The artistic quality of the many films that
followed was unmatched anywhere in the world,
including the United States.
Mumau was born in Germany in 1888 and came
under the stage influence of the famous Max
Reinhardt before turning to film and his first feature
picture in 1919. He made eight features (nearly all
lost today) before 1922 when he directed his first real
success, Nosferatu (a German word for vampire).
This film, to be shown as part of Sheldon Film
Classics focus on Murnau this weekend, is an
unauthorized version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (thus
the change in name). Perhaps the world's first, truely
terrifying horror movie, Nosferatu stars Max Schreck,
as Count Orlock, probably tha most skeletonous
figure ever to appear on the screen.
After Nosferatu, Murnau made three more
features before creating the greatest film ever made in
Germany, The Last Laugh (1924). This forlorn story
of an elegant hotel doorman who is demoted to a
washroom attendant remains a cinematic triumph
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even today.
The characters in the film have no names, the
movie itself is without titles.
In 1927, Mumau joined the swelling group of
German actors and directors who were lured to
Hollywood studios. He signed with William Fox and
his first film here was Sunrise, along with Chaplin's
City Lights, one of the last great American silents.
But Murnau soon became disillusioned with the
studio's control of his fiims. In 1931 he and Robert
Flaherty the period's finest documentary filmmaker
who directed Nanook of the North, bought a yacht
and went on an around the world filming, binge. But
when they came to Tahiti, they stopped their
traveling and began shooting Tabu, also featured this
weekend in the Sheldon Series.
Tabu is one of our finest poetic-documentaries
and was Murnau's last film. He had a bright future
ahead of him and the thought of an Ernst
Lubitsch-Josef von Sternberg-Murnau triumvirate at
Paramount Studios in the '30s looked awesome. But
the career of one of the cinema's ablest directors was
cut short when Murnau was killed in a car accident in
March, 1931, one week before the world premiere of
Tabu.
Renowned flautist
in concert tonight
Jean-Pierre Rampal. To those who know his flute
playing that is all you need to say.
Rampal was born in Marseilles, France. His father was
professor of flute at the Marseilles Conservatoire. He began
his career not as a flautist like his father, but as a doctor.
During the German occupation he was called to active duty
in Germany. He went AWOL and went to Paris. There he
was convinced to attend classes at the National
Conservatoire. He left with the first prize in flute playing
just five months later.
He has taken concert tours on and off sine 1946 and
has done considerable work, on French radio.
Rampal has played the complete spectrum of the flute
literature from Baroque to the most contemporary. He has
recorded on 13 different lables and six of his recordings
have won the Grand Prix du Disque, an international
Bl! recording award,3tllt1
Rampal plays tonight at the Kimball Recital Hall at 8
p.m. His concert is the last concert in the Performing Arts
Series sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee.
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