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SUNRISE
March 31, 2012  | By David Bianculli  | 2 comments

 

Here’s a movie you don’t see often on television, much less in prime time: It’s F.W. Murnau’s silent drama, a movie about love and betrayal and lust and longing and reconciliation. George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor star as a married couple from the country, and Margaret Livingston plays the Woman from the City who tempts him not only to embrace both her and the big city, but tries to persuade him to murder his wife. And in one bold sequence, accomplished within the camera via a tricky multiple exposure, the temptress haunts him literally, by embracing him in spectral form. In a movie made in 1927.

 
 
 
 
 
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This is a smart blog. I mean it. You have so much knowledge about this issue, and so much passion. You also know how to make people rally behind it, obviously from the responses.
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I remember when I was still a kid, me and my father always do movie marathons on old movies. The good old days!
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