Nosferatu: I was looking forward to this movie, so, perhaps my expectations were high. It’s probably the oldest movie I’ve watched. I was sorely disappointed. I found it difficult to make sense of the film, and the music was horrendous. I watched the ‘Eureka Entertainment’ restoration version, which I’ve since learned has a really crap […]
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Movie: City Lights (1931)
City Lights: I’m still impressed with how Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, starred, and composed the music for this film (and for many others that he made). I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as Modern times – it’s a different kind of humour though, it is not as much out and out slapstick humour as […]
Movie: Metropolis (1927)
Metropolis: I think this is the oldest movie I’ve seen in the IMDB top 250 so far. It’s a sci-fi story set in a world where the rich have a great city, while the workers who keep the city running live underground. According to the introduction to the film, around a quarter of the original […]