Tag: Classics

CinemaBabel Film School

The history of film is both long and rich with content. From the silent era that launched the medium and gave us monsters that still haunt us today to the pre-code era‘s wide-ranging freedom to French New Wave…

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Under The Silver Lake is a Paranoid Love Letter to Los Angeles and Film Noir

“We crave mystery because there’s none left.” The millennial generation is infamously underpaid, overworked, and lagging behind where their parents were at the same age in terms of life accomplishments and experiences. These conditions provide a recipe ripe…

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Metropolis: A Masterpiece Ahead of Its Time

Image: F.W. Murnau Foundation

“Head and hands require a mediator. The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart.” Metropolis is a futuristic city, ruled by its wealthy creater Joh Fredersen (Alfred Abel). His son Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) discovers the…

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