这是一套足以让任何一个资深影迷和电影工作者都为之兴奋的产品，它系统地阐述在过去100多年里，电影艺术在欧洲从诞生到发展、壮大、开拓的过程，按照地域的划分系统性地对欧洲主要各国在电影艺术上的发展做了一个梳理。第一集首先就给观众讲述了电影艺术在1895年诞生的过程，由法国卢米埃尔兄弟所拍摄的《火车进站》、《工厂大门》等珍贵片段都被收录其中。第二集讲述的则是瑞典的电影，瑞典作为北欧最为重要的电影艺术发展国家，曾经诞生了伯格曼等著名大导演，但谁又曾想到，他们也经历过电影的低谷。1912年所有瑞典电影人聚集在一起的一次盛会真正让瑞典电影走向了世界的前沿。第三集则来到了法斯宾德、文德斯等的故乡德国，早期的表现主义电影正是从那里诞生而来，成为德国电影的标志之一。新浪潮运动的发源地法国是第四集的主角，它详细介绍了法国电影工业在战争后的复苏与巨大先导性，其中选用了许多...
"Metropolis", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", M, "Nosferatu", "People on Sunday", "Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis" all rank among the classics and most influential films of European Cinema. FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER tells the story of early German Cinema as the story of social and cultural upheaval in the first republic, between 1918 and 1933. Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the g...
保罗·莱尼拍摄于1924年的《蜡人馆》被普遍认为是表现主义的最后一部作品。这部作品采用了与《疲倦的死神》相类似的叙事结构，讲述一个蜡人馆的老板请来一位作家为自己的蜡像人物编故事。作家编写了三个故事：哈里发的故事、伊凡雷帝的故事和“恐怖杰克”的故事。其中第一个几乎完全脱胎于《疲倦的死神》，第二个则是有关俄罗斯历史上的暴君，第三个更是诡异离奇，基本上是英国近代史上两个杀人狂魔“弹簧腿杰克”和“开膛手杰克”的结合体，这两个杰克都是历史上的悬案，传说他们是地狱的使者，在人世间嗜血如命、杀人如麻。在影片的最后，连作家本人也被杰克追杀。我想，现在那些有关连环杀人犯的恐怖电影，其源头恐怕得追溯到这里。
"Paracelsus," which was shown at the First Avenue Screening Room last Sunday and will be repeated there at noon and midnight today and tomorrow, is a very special footnote to film and political history. Never before released in New York, it is the second film made by the great, supposedly left-wing German director, G. W. Pabst, after he returned to Nazi Germany just in time for...
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing published his "dramatic poem" in 1779 as a direct response to censure by official orthodox religious circles, to which he was subject after publishing a work by Samuel Reimarus that was critical of religion. He set his story in Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades, where Christians, Jews and Muslims were in constant and close confrontation. It threaten...
帕布斯特的《一个灵魂的秘密》(Geheimnisse einer Seele, 1926)是第一部在电影叙事中严肃地尝试使用新弗洛伊德学派精神分析原理的影片。渴望使用科学方法解决心理问题，使得《一个灵魂的秘密》成为新客观派的另一种变体。这部影片实际上是一个案例研究，一个看似普通的男人，患上了一种刀具恐惧症，他试图从一个精神分析学家那里得到治疗。尽管影片对精神分析的描述太过简单，但一些表现主义风格的梦境段落给影片增添相当多的趣味。
（波德维尔等《世界电影史》第2版，第154—155页。）
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When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's unique daughter. But when he discovers that Count's second wife Helga will soon inherit a field that only he knows his underground is full wi...
