Movement
German Expressionism
Weimar cinema built out of painted shadows and impossible architecture, externalising a character's derangement by warping the set around them.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene · 1920

Metropolis
Fritz Lang · 1927

Nosferatu
Robert Eggers · 2024

M
Fritz Lang · 1931
More in Movement
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