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Spooky silent film screening of "Faust" (1926)
“Audiences should prepare for more than the usual fun-filled night of music and motion pictures,” says Bailey, who serves as the volunteer president of TOSSD. “This cinematic medieval folktale is still as thought-provoking and unsettling as it was nearly a hundred years ago.” This will be the first screening of “Faust” by TOSSD.
The Halloween season offers an opportunity to review the evolution of horror films and their effect on audiences. This film, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and produced in Berlin, is among the early landmarks of the horror genre, prior to the development of movie sound tracks in the late 1920s.
“Faust” followed Murnau’s 1922 “Nosferatu,” which introduced the legend of Bram Stoker’s Dracula to movie audiences.
In this film, Murnau used state-of-the-art special effects inspired by artists from Caravaggio to the German Expressionists.
Dramatic lighting, scenes of flying, depth-of-field shots unique in their day, and billows of smoke and flame contribute to the film’s visual excitement. Not only the heavy theme of the Faust legend but also the exhilaration of youth and frantic celebrations in the face of death bring forth the highs and lows of the horror genre.
Film critic Roger Ebert praised Murnau’s skills in creating “a landscape of nightmares.”
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2002544-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/2002544-2
