DER LETZTE MANN
Silent master FW Murnau’s experimental elegy to a disappearing world is a wordless tragicomic masterpiece.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
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TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS
An unforgettable silent masterpiece made by two giants of cinema, Tabu reminds us how it was once possible to take innocent delight in the alien-ness of a distant culture.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
A THROW OF DICE
This silent romantic melodrama from 1929 is reissued by the BFI in a nice print, sharp but with considerable depth and subtlety of shade, including some pleasing murkiness. It is an extravagantly beautiful realisation of royal splendour in Rajasthan, inspired by the ancient Mahabharata but looking like what was then the fairly recent past.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
JACQUES BECKER CLASSICS
It’s as subtle as a slap in the face (of which quite a few are administered in the course of events). And yet . . . Jacques Becker’s terse, down-to-earth 1952 thriller Casque d’or keeps threatening to be art as well as entertainment.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff
QUAI DES ORFEVRES
The film is a seemingly effortless evocation of the low life in 1940s Paris – a shadowed, intimate, but open world through which ugly and beautiful, young and old, victim, suspect, and pursuer move freely.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff