Tonight, the Chicago Film Society opens its winter season with the 1927 gem 'Sunrise'--'an avant-garde work,' says CFS co-founder Kyle Westphal, 'steeped in traditionalism.'
In F.W. Murnau's"Sunrise," a rural married couple come back from the brink of homicidal insanity.
In his aspirational heyday, just as Hollywood studios were reckoning with the threat and revolutionary possibilities of talking pictures, studio mogul William Fox sought out the man he considered the world’s premier director, F.W. Murnau, to make a truly great silent feature in America. Ultimately it was to be accompanied by Fox’s newly invented Movietone soundtrack, featuring a bracingly experimental orchestral score with musical sound effects.
The “Sunrise” Movietone soundtrack, Westphal notes, “is not just underscoring. It’s quite extraordinary — a whole soundscape that sounds very modern to our ears, full of strange sound effects.”Visually “Sunrise” captures the full, ecstatic range of camera movement and production design available on a big budget to actual geniuses working at their peak in the late silent era.
For Fox, Murnau went on to make “4 Devils” and the 1930 “City Girl.” His final film, a year later: the South Seas collaboration with Robert Flaherty, “Tabu,” which was not an easy experience. Murnau died in an automobile accident that same year, 1931. By then Fox’s glory years had been well and truly erased financially in the 1929 stock market fiasco.
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