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Voidsville Follies

Works from UFA (2)

Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)

F.W. Murnau (director)
Carl Mayer (writer)
Karl Freund (cinematographer)
Emil Jannings (lead)
Emilie Kurz (lead)
Georg John (lead)
Erich Pommer (producer)
UFA (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1924
Minutes: 88

There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear. Stunning on first view, this lingers in the mind, then gets even better when seen again.

Featured elements:

: aging; forsaken; melodrama; metatheatre; modernism; social commentary; urbanization

Asphalt

Joe May (director/writer)
Günther Rittau (cinematographer)
Hans Székely (writer)
Rolf E. Vanloo (writer)
Betty Amann (lead)
Gustav Fröhlich (lead)
Albert Steinrück (lead)
Else Heller (lead)
Hans Adalbert Schlettow (lead)
UFA (production)

Language: Silent, German titles, English subtitles, released in Mar 1929
Minutes: 90

Cop/mama's boy gets first taste of poontang from the wrong gal. City streets, shadows, and sexual obsession: this one packs more of what you're watching noir for. Story is told with minimal titles. Perhaps titles have been lost, but I prefer to believe that filmmakers were confident that audiences were mature enough to follow what was shown - without the need for spelling out every “Danke” and “Nein”. This 1995 edition sports superb music by Karl-Ernst Sasse, that fittingly provides strong hints of the “Habanera” aria from Bizet's opera Carmen. And the lovers' theme brings to mind Brecht/Weill's lesser-known "Ballade Von Der Sexuellen Hörigkeit (Ballad Of Sexual Obsession)"

Featured elements:

: antihero; automobile; bad cop; comedy; corruption; crime; family; femme fatale; fighting; forbidden love; foreshadowing; lady or gentleman thief; noir; redemption; romance; urbanization

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