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	F.W. Murnau
		Murnau's most famous film is Nosferatu, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula that caused Stoker's estate to sue for copyright infringement.
		Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the Fox Studio and made the 1920s-era fable Sunrise - a movie often cited by film scholars as one of the greatest films of all time.
		Murnau's travels abroad resulted in the film Tabu, which was censored in America because it showed images of bare-breasted "native" Polynesian women.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/f/F._W._Murnau.html (353 words)

	f.w. murnau biography (1888 - 1931) and filmography
		Murnau is far from a nobody back in his native Germany, and he may fairly be judged the most distinguished and talented of all the directors bought over to Hollywood in the twenties with maximum publicity and the most elaborate red carpet treatment.
		Yet Murnau's story of a resplendedly uniformed doorman's fall from glory is realized in images just as haunting and atmospheric as those in which he clothed his vampire tales.
		Visually stunning and atmospherically sublime, it is constructed in a European style, the story itself remains slight, though Murnau's treatment develops it like a symphony, reaching a crescendo with the storm on the lake in which the re-united husband and wife are nearly separated for ever.
	www.leninimports.com /murnau_fw.html (1182 words)

	More on Murnau
		Murnau was born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe on December 28, 1888 in Bielefeld, Westphalia, Germany.
		Murnau's knowledge of art history fills his films with arresting images that recall Rembrandt (and expressionist artists) in the intense range of light and dark of films like Faust, as well as German Romanticism in the rugged outdoor photography of Nosferatu, and even a Gaugin-like celebration of the body in Tabu.
		Murnau's first American film was a rare thing indeed, a personal reverie made on a massive budget for a major studio.
	www.sloppyfilms.com /murnau/momurn.htm (779 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: Directors in Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murnau (1888-1931) created a total of 21 films in his short life, and of these, 12 survive to this day.
		Murnau’s use of real locations instead of stylized studio sets to create atmosphere, his deployment of special effects such as negative exposure and fast-speed motion to suggest a ghostly ride, and his casting of Max Schreck as the gaunt, spectral figure of Dracula make this one of the director’s most formally innovative works.
		Murnau, along with acclaimed cameramen Karl Struss and Charles Rosher, transformed the material by merging the psychological realism of the domestic drama with a lyrical depiction of both the quiet country village and the bustling city—connected by the protagonists’ celebrated streetcar journey through the different visual landscapes.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/04_fall/murnau.html (1091 words)

	Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung > foundation
		Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is born in Bielefeld on December 28, 1888 as Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe.
		At the premiere of FAUST on October 14, 1926, Murnau is no longer in Germany, as he has already signed a contract with the American producer William Fox, who having seen DER LETZTE MANN is convinced of the German director’s genius: Murnau travels to the United States in July of 1926.
		Murnau is disappointed to be requested to orient the contents of the movie more closely on the interests of the audience and to take this into account when directing.
	www.murnau-stiftung.de /en/01-05-00-murnau.html (1376 words)

	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murnau's next two pictures, Four Devils (1928) and City Girl (1930), were modified to adapt to the new era of sound film and were not well received.
		Murnau did not live to see the premiere of his last film; he died in an automobile accident in Santa Barbara, California on March 11, 1931.
		Murnau was entombed on Southwest Cemetery (Südwest-Kirchhof Stahnsdorf) in Stahnsdorf near Berlin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/F.W._Murnau (1062 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Op-Eds - The Films of W.F. Murnau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murnau shapes his images, such as the trolley ride from the country into the city in his masterpiece "Sunrise," to reflect the evolving inner lives of his characters.
		Murnau's supple visuals, from the giddy sensuality of the exotic in "Tabu" to the playful surrealism of "Faust" and the Teutonic mechanics of abasement in "The Last Laugh," invite introspection, not simply surprise.
		Murnau dramatizes the physical and moral degeneracy of evil; the clinical disembowelments in today's horror movies suggest that awe has only become escapism writ large, a way to scissor viewers out of reality for a few hours.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2004/48954_20040930.asp (2679 words)

	Filmography: - F.w. Murnau
		Nearly as important as Nosferatu in Murnaus filmography was The Last Laugh (1925), written by Carl Mayer and starring Emil Jannings.
		Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined the 20th Century Fox and made the 1920s-era fable Sunrise (movie) - a movie often cited by film scholars as one of the greatest films of all time.
		Murnaus travels abroad resulted in the film Tabu (film), which was censored in America because it showed images of bare-breasted native Polynesian women.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi5441/fw-murnau-filmography.html (430 words)

	F W Murnau Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murnau's next effort, "Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh" (1924), reuniting him with Mayer and Freund, was arguably his most complete realization of a preconceived ideal and firmly established his reputation internationally.
		Murnau would make two more German films, "Tartuffe" and "Faust" (both 1926), allowing the former's picturesque elements of costume and set design to thoroughly dominate his version of the Moliere play at the expense of the characters.
		Murnau was about to embark on a 10-year contract with Paramount where he might have done more for American film than did his fellow countrymen Lang or Lubitsch.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/196744 (2140 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Murnau, Friedrich Wilhelm
		Murnau died in a car crash a week before the premiere of Tabu in 1931; the movie would go on to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Floyd Crosby, the father of rock musician David Crosby.
		In Hollywood, however, Murnau's homosexuality was the cause of much gossip, including the infamous rumor that his death on March 11, 1931 in an automobile accident was precipitated by his fellating his chauffeur while the latter was driving.
		While the scandalous rumors surrounding Murnau's death resulted in the appearance of only a handful of mourners at his funeral, one of those was Greta Garbo.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/murnau_fw.html (942 words)

	F.W. Murnau: Film Pioneer \| Academy Foundation \| AMPAS
		Murnau was born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1888, and following university in Heidelberg became part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
		By 1921 Murnau had made ten feature films but his next, Nosferatu (1922), became an instant classic, and its influence over the genre of the vampire film (and horror films in general) continues to this day.
		Prior to the New York premiere, however, Murnau was killed in an automobile accident in California.
	www.oscars.org /events/past/2004/murnau/index.html (441 words)

	F. W. Murnau TABU vintage still / 1930
		But the film is more Murnau's than Flaherty's, and the location serves its purpose by being specific yet universal, as all great films are.
		Tabu's story is fairly simple, but what Murnau was best at — in all his films — was creating what might be called a "tone poem." This is one, and the rhythms of the film carry it to its fatalistic conclusion.
		Murnau, as in his greatest works, believed in the poetry of images and mise-en-scene, and he found the recognizable theme of lost love more than enough to carry his film.
	www.goantiques.com /detail,murnau-tabu-vintage,1253816.html (501 words)

	Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror - Directed by F.W. Murnau
		Finally Murnau was offered a four year contract in Hollywood which saw the release of Sunrise in 1927, Four Devils in 1928 and City Girl in 1930.
		But Murnau was frustrated by the Hollywood system and the lack of control he now had over his artistry.
		So if necessity is the mother of invention then Murnau's contributions to film making were borne out of the limitations of the silent era.
	nosferatumovie.com /fw_murnau.html (783 words)

	Knitting Circle F. W. Murnau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In particular the actor Emil Jannings (1885-1950) starred in three of F. Murnau's films and the actor's talent was such that his homosexuality was overlooked by the Nazis.
		Murnau moved to the USA and he made Sunrise, (1927), which won three of the first ever Academy Awards.
		"Murnau was a million miles from the hollering, self-serving autocrat Malkovich portrays him as in Shadow of the Vampire.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /fwmurnau.html (427 words)

	F W Murnau Films
		Murnau’s lyrical 1927 masterpiece love story SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS, has taken top spots on all-time best lists for many years and will be shown with the original synchronized music track, as will TABU.
		Murnau’s version of the Faustian legend with Emil Jannings as the seductive Mephisto, holds up as well as anything ever for seamlessly incorporating the outstanding visual effects with the epic poetry of Goethe’s story.
		Murnau’s influence cannot be overestimated on both American and European cinema that followed his untimely death from wounds suffered in a car accident in 1931 at age 42.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/M/f_w_murnau_films.htm (422 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: F.W. Murnau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murnau made his Dracula as hideous, doomed, and gloomy as later incarnations are suave, elegant, and tasteful.
		Murnau labored unceasingly to produce a cinema with its own vocabulary of images and to rid the art of the titles, theatrical histrionics, and visual shorthand that were gimmicks of the stage.
		Though most of Murnau’s work is lost, what films do survive remain a potent reminder of the pure visual power of the cinema.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=128 (439 words)

	MURNAU - Eleven Days! 13 Films! at Film Forum in New York City
		One of the last and greatest of silent films as F.W. Murnau and his screenwriter Carl Mayer — fresh from their German triumph with The Last Laugh — were given an almost unlimited budget and artistic freedom for their first Hollywood picture, creating a nearly title-less visual poem.
		“Murnau’s use of figures in his settings (the little town, with its cabarets and wide squares) is more advanced than any of his contemporaries, and his fantasies — notably when Abel imagines the town is literally falling on him — remain extraordinary.” – David Shipman.
		With its country scenes shot on Oregon farmland, Murnau’s poem of the land was overtaken by sound (a part-talkie version has not survived) and studio truncation, but retains much of his dazzling visuals, with the camera gliding through the fields of wheat and urban scenes as memorable as those in Sunrise.
	www.filmforum.org /films/murnau.html (1252 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tartuffe: DVD: Hermann Picha,Rosa Valetti,André Mattoni,Werner Krauss,Lil Dagover,Lucie Höflich,Emil ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Murnau's film Tartuffe is an adaptation of Molière's 17th century play about religious hypocrisy.
		It would appear to be a daunting task to adapt a classic play, consisting almost entirely of dialogue, to the medium of silent cinema where the focus must be on the visual and where dialogue can be conveyed only with title cards.
		This film is interesting and provides a useful overview of Murnau's life and career and has a good number of clips from his films.
	www.amazon.ca /Tartuffe-Hermann-Picha/dp/B0000DZTOV (912 words)

	The silent and sound German Expressionist films of F.W. Murnau,
		Murnau mixes exceptional photography, startling special effects and a deliberately rich, nerve shattering, montage to create a masterpiece of horror.
		Murnau explores their secrets and nightmares through a superb series of expressionistic dream and flashback sequences that offer a glimpse of what would come a year later in ‘Nosferatu’.
		Murnau's last film in Germany prior to going to Hollywood was this lavish studio production.
	www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-MURNAU.htm (510 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Murnau,
		Murnau, Friedrich W., 1889-1931, German film director, b.
		Murnau's films, especially those made in collaboration with writer Carl Meyer, are noted for their fluid, expressionistic use of the camera to depict states of
		Flight Officer F.W. Murnau's fifth crash, aircraft unsalvageable, February 1917.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Murnau, (330 words)

	F.W. Murnau - Moviefone
		To this day German filmmaker F. Murnau remains one of the most influential directors of cinema.
		Murnau, and starring Emil Jennings and Maly Delschaft, with live piano accompaniment by David Drazin.
		M urnau is both one of the giants in the history of the cinema, and a forgotten figure.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/fw-murnau/103827/main (117 words)

	f.w. murnau biography part ii & filmography
		He did however manage to make one more film: the privately financed and evidently non-commercial Tabu (1930), begun in collaboration with the documentary film maker Robert Flaherty and intended as a semi-documentary, was filmed entirely in South Sea locations with a non-professional cast of Polynesians.
		Lacking the documentarist's ideals, Murnau insisted on making it into a rhapsody on the theme of fated young love, as elaborately structured as any of his studio pictures.
		The result was a perfect swansong for the director - a hymn of natural beauty, of people and of landscape, and a triumph of aesthetic cinema.
	www.leninimports.com /murnau_fw2.html (248 words)

	Murnau, Friedrich W. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Murnau, Friedrich W. Murnau, Friedrich W., 1889-1931, German film director, b.
		Murnau's films, especially those made in collaboration with writer Carl Meyer, are noted for their fluid, expressionistic use of the camera to depict states of mind, an alternative stylistic model to the editing-centered works of Sergei Eisenstein.
		Film is only a 'Shadow' of Murnau's greatness; From 'Caligari' to Hitler to 'Nosferatu'.(Scene)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Murnau-F.html (293 words)

	TSPDT - F.W. Murnau
		"Murnau's influence on the cinema has proved to be more lasting than Eisenstein's.
		Murnau's moving camera seems a more suitable style for exploring the world than does Eisenstein's dialectical montage, and the trend in modern movies has been towards escaping studio sets so as to discover the real world." - Andrew Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968)
		"Murnau's visual style unites the diverse themes and stories that constitute his best work; his fluently moving camera implies and openness of attitude that transcends both the rigid schematics of Expressionism and the limiting conventions of genre.
	www.theyshootpictures.com /murnaufw.htm (503 words)

	The F.W. Murnau Collection-DVD Box Set DVD - Kino on Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This new presentation of Murnau's classic is mastered from original German material recently made available to Kino and is the most complete version available.
		A fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a faithful wife (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous hypocrite with a taste for the grape.
		While the lovers' flight from judgement and the ultimate power of the tabu are reminiscent of Murnau's expressionist films, Tabu is all open air and sunlight -- the brilliant tropical light sparkles on the ocean and glistens on the beautiful young bodies of the native men and women.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?product_id=638 (300 words)

	F.W. Murnau Movies & News
		Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was born as Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe on December 28, 1888 in Bielefeld, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
		He was one of the most influential directors of the silent film era.
		F.W. Murnau died on the 11th of March 1931 in Santa Barbara, California, USA due to an automobile accident.
	www.moviesonline.ca /celeb-F.W.-Murnau.htm (181 words)

	DVD Review - THE F. W. MURNAU COLLECTION
		Hope I’m not going out on a limb when I say that Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was one of the greatest filmmakers of the silent era, and possibly of all time.
		And if you’ll grant me that, then you’ll be excited to learn of this new collection from Kino, a company which has been patiently amassing the director’s work, almost like a collector, only they’ve been collecting them for us.
		The film was honored in 1929 at the first Academy Awards ceremony, and the disc features audio commentary by cinematographer John Bailey, two scores, outtakes from the film, and information on a lost Murnau opus – FOUR DEVILS.
	www.filmsinreview.com /FilmReviews/DVDs/dvrev-fw_murnau_coll.html (358 words)

	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1889-1931) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		: Briefwechel [sic] zwischen Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau und Lothar Mhuthel, 1915-1917 / herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Eberhard Spiess ; unter Mitarbeit von Christa Reichel.
		Subjects: Murnau, F. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1889-1931 -- Correspondence.
		Murnau, F. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1889-1931 -- Criticism and interpretation.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcmurnau.htm (766 words)

	Faust \| F.W. Murnau 1926
		The chaotic density of the opening shots, the light dawning in the mists, the rays beaming through the opaque air, are breathtaking...
		Under F.W. Murnau's direction, Jannings expertly hits dramatic poses that look as though they are modelled after a stylized illustration.
		Murnau had carte blanche access to UFA resources to help bring his vision to celluloid.
	www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/films/faust/faust.html (1943 words)

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