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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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Nebs
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 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Quote: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, also known as Sunrise, is a 1927 American silent film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story "Die Reise nach Tilsit" by Hermann Sudermann.
Sunrise won an Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production at the first ever Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. In 1937, Sunrise's original negative was destroyed in a nitrate fire. A new negative was created from a surviving print. In 1989, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry. In a 2002 critics' poll for the British Film Institute, Sunrise was named the seventh-best film in the history of motion pictures.
In 2007, the film was chosen #82 on the 10th anniversary update of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list of great films. Sunrise is one of the first with a soundtrack of music and sound effects recorded in the then-new Fox Movietone sound-on-film system. Much of the exterior shooting was done at Lake Arrowhead, California.
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Shack
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Re: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans I LOVED this movie
The subtitle fits it perfectly. It's like a beautiful song, a piece of art. It's as pure a representation of love possible, told through images and nameless character expressions only (and as a born romantic, you can guess I would dig that). It's the kind of film that could not work without being in the silent era, the lack of dialogue is an assett. You see all you need to in their faces and in the amazing score. For example the scene in the coffee shop... There is no need for words.
It's definitley one of the best directed films I've seen in some time, no need to elaborate there, Murnau's work is genius here. Again the score is great, and actors, O'Brien, Gaynor, and Livingston are all great. The overall look of the film is pretty glorious, in particular the carnival is just wow.
What I find interesting about this film, is that it will never date. Even with great sound B&Ws, the deliveries, dialogue, and other stuff like kissing and etc. is dated, that's just the more surface-heavy way they acted back then. But with Sunrise, none of that is true. The characters still feel completley real, the setting still looks real, and as a story purely about emotion and love it is forever applicable. Despite being 80 years old, it made me feel as much as just about any movie can. It is truly and utterly one of the most timeless movies I've seen.
It's impossible for a movie like this to be made in the sound era, and that is why I think silent films may outlast regular B&W, because they're different. They can do things movies today simply can't, just as movies today can reach places limited to them.
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Thegun
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Re: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Awesome movie of the silent era (And what would be considered the first Best Picture Winner of the Academy Awards)
Great style, and great blend of comedy and drama
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Inny Binny
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Re: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans i don't know if it's just me but there was a while in the second half (especially at the big restaurant place) where several music tracks layered on each other and it sounded absolutely atrocious. everything else was masterful, but the music was off-putting for a while.
not to worry, still pretty amazing.
86/100, A-
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Thegun wrote: Awesome movie of the silent era (And what would be considered the first Best Picture Winner of the Academy Awards)
Great style, and great blend of comedy and drama Quote: At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories that were seen as equally the top award of the night: Outstanding Picture and Unique and Artistic Production, the previous being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise, both the awards were intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. The following year, the Academy dropped the Unique and Artistic Production award, and decided retroactively that the award won by Wings was the highest honor that could be awarded _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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