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