F.W. Murnau had already left for Hollywood to make Sunrise when his final German film, a lavishly budgeted adaptation of the Faust legend, was released to the international market in 1926. Seven ...

Director: F.W. Murnau Starring: Gosta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard Running Time: 107 minutes Certificate: PG Extras: Audio Commentary with David Ehrenstein and Bill Krohn ...

Watching Kino's new two-disc set of Murnau's "Faust" the other night, I was struck by how frequently he dealt with transformation - spiritual as well as physical. In "Faust," there is the initial ...

And the two films with which Murnau capped his German career -- “Tartuffe” (1925), based on the Moliere comedy, and “Faust” -- propose audacious solutions to the problem of adaptation ...

The 12-disc set documents the great work done at Fox studios by its top two directors: F.W. Murnau (1888-1931) and Frank Borzage (1894-1962). The two are not the most natural pairing.

OGUNQUIT — It’s been a novel, a stage play, and an opera. So when movies first appeared a century ago, it was only a matter of time before they tackled ‘Faust,’ the tale of a man who ...

Murnau devised images that carried the full burden of the drama. The challenge with “Faust” is that it’s not just a plot but a poem; the movie would inevitably be held up to the standard of ...