"It isn't just the characters who have gone insane, but almost the environment itself." Can films from the early days of cinema still influence movies being made today? Of course they can! And they ...

Maximilian Letze is the director for the Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen, Germany, and began organizing the ...

Husband and wife Michael Maltzan and Amy Murphy partnered up to create the installation for the LACMA exhibition Haunted Screens: German Cinema in the 1920s . Hear them talk about their design and the ...

German Expressionist films are not exactly popular fodder for the contemporary remake machine. Most are silent and at least a century old, and almost all of them are the product of artists tapped into ...

Kino’s German Expressionism Collection combines two films new to DVD with reissues of two previously available titles. The reissues are Kino’s 2002 edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and ...

Paul Leni’s Waxworks is often considered the swan song of German Expressionist cinema. Its German title, Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, which translates to The Cabinet of Wax Figures, calls to mind Robert ...

Nicolas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola, on the fringe of cinema royalty. His uncle is the director Francis Ford Coppola and his aunt is the actor Talia Shire. He grew up one of three brothers in ...