Morricone Youth returns to Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (136 Metropolitan Avenue) to provide the live score to F.W. Murnau's 1927 silent film classic "Sunrise" this Sunday 5/13 12p and Tuesday 5/15 7:30p. Buy advance tickets HERE. This event will sell out.
SUNRISE is the supreme silent film, the highest peak of a lost
art form. F.W. Murnau, the German director of "Nosferatu: A Symphony of
Horror," was brought to Hollywood, given an unlimited budget. The result
is Murnau's masterwork, "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans," It's a
timeless tale of murder, love, emotion, seduction, and reconciliation. A
couple's love is set against the hostile, destructive forces of the
Jazz Age City. A mythical story played out in polar oppositions,
sunrise/sunset, light/dark, farm/city... Almost without any dialogue
(there are just a few intertitles), it is the use of images that brings
this film to such significance. It uses all the unique abilities of the
silent film to create ideas , sensations, a living dream.
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