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Film series: Weimar to Hollywood 17 August – 6 November 2011

By Robert Herbert, curator, film (until June 2017)
Still from 'The cabinet of Doctor Caligari' 1919, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from The cabinet of Doctor Caligari 1919, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

The mad square highlighted radical innovations made by artists in Berlin, affecting painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and to decorative arts during the interwar years. Weimar to Hollywood demonstrated the decisive impact of German filmmakers of the same period. Screening classic cinema from the 1920s onwards, it revealed the transatlantic destiny of Weimar cinema.

The series screened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 17 August to 6 November 2011 in association with the exhibition The mad square: modernity in German art 1910-1937.

Films 

  • 17, 21 August – The cabinet of Doctor Caligari (director Robert Wiene, Germany, 1919, 35mm)

  • 24, 28 August – Pandora’s box (director G W Pabst, Germany, 1929, 35mm)

  • 31 August, 4 September – The blue angel (director Josef Von Sternberg, Germany, 1930, 35mm)

  • 7, 11 September – Nosferatu, a symphony of horror (director F W Murnau, Germany, 1922, 16mm)

  • 14, 18 September – The last laugh (director F W Murnau, Germany, 1924, 35mm)

  • 21, 25 September – Sunrise: a song of two humans (director F W Murnau, United States, 1927, 35mm)

  • 28 September, 2 October – Tabu (director F W Murnau, United States, 1931, 35mm)

  • 5, 9 October – Metropolis (director Fritz Lang, Germany, 1926, 35mm)

  • 12, 16 October – M (director Fritz Lang, Germany, 1931, 35mm)

  • 19, 23 October – Scarlet street (director Fritz Lang, United States, 1945, 35mm)

  • 26, 30 October – The big heat (director Fritz Lang, United States, 1953, 35mm)

  • 2, 6 November – The blue gardenia (director Fritz Lang, United States, 1953, 35mm)

Still from 'The cabinet of Doctor Caligari' 1919, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from The cabinet of Doctor Caligari 1919, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from Pandora's box 1929, photo: courtesy of Praesens Film

Still from Pandora's box 1929, photo: courtesy of Praesens Film

Still from Nosferatu, a symphony of horror 1922, photo: courtesy of National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Still from Nosferatu, a symphony of horror 1922, photo: courtesy of National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

Still from The last laugh 1924, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from The last laugh 1924, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from Tabu 1931, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from Tabu 1931, photo: courtesy of Transit Film

Still from Metropolis 1926, photo: courtesy of Potential Films

Still from Metropolis 1926, photo: courtesy of Potential Films

Still from M 1931, photo: courtesy of Praesens Films

Still from M 1931, photo: courtesy of Praesens Films

Still from Scarlet street 1945, photo: courtesy of Universal Pictures and Library of Congress

Still from Scarlet street 1945, photo: courtesy of Universal Pictures and Library of Congress