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Friday Film: Weimar Cinema Beyond Caligari

JL;DR SUMMARY The largest ever U.S. retrospective of Weimar cinema from 1919-1933, featured at MoMA until March 2011, offers a comprehensive dive into the era's defining expressionist style with films like "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Nosferatu." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish FilmmakersNazismArthur SchnitzlerGerman CinemaSiegfried KracauerWeimar CinemaMomaExpressionismPaul CzinnerElizabeth Bergner

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Weimar Cinema, 19191933: Daydreams and Nightmares, running at MoMA until March 7, 2011, is billed as the largest-ever retrospective of German cinema from between the Wars to be shown in the United States."
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
"created with assistance from the F.W. Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden"
Berlin, Germany
"created with assistance from the F.W. Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden and the German Kinematek in Berlin"
Austria
"Schnitzler, a Viennese Jew who practiced medicine professionally, was developing stream-of-consciousness technique in Austria around the same time that Joyce and Woolf were experimenting along similar lines."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"A.J. Goldmann is a writer and critic based in Munich, Germany."

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