Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

FW Murnau

February 2019

  • Marie Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 classic The Passion of Joan of Arc.

    Observer European film
    Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice

    The must-see movies that have defined a century of European cinema, as chosen by the Observer’s film writers

April 2018

  • Deadly civil war chase … Buster Keaton in 1927’s The General.

    My favourite film decade
    From Nosferatu to The General – why the 1920s is my favourite film decade

    Chaplin and Keaton made millions laugh, but silent cinema’s greatest classics were the fruit of wild European fancy … and then Hollywood invented the talkies

July 2015

  • The horror, the horror … Max Schreck as Count Orlok.

    Nosferaaarghtu: why they shouldn't remake Dracula's best film outing

    Fans must resign themselves to directors wanting another crack at the classics. But there are some movies so definitive – and so of their time – they oughtn’t to be resurrected
  • Goya, self-portrait

    The skull robbers: how celebrity culture lost its head

    Colin Dickey
    The robbing of Nosferatu director FW Murnau’s grave may have had occult motives. But as with Goya or Beethoven, it’s probably just extreme autograph hunting
  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu director's head stolen from grave in Germany

    The skull of legendary vampire film director FW Murnau was reported missing from his family plot, as some speculate possible occult motives for theft

August 2014

  • FW Murnau's Faust

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Faust DVD review – Philip French on Murnau's symphony of light and dark

    Philip French welcomes this meticulously restored Blu-ray version of Murnau's final German movie

November 2013

  • Still from the Fritz Lang film, Metropolis

    Film blog
    Top 10 silent movies

    Think silent films reached a high point with The Artist?The pre-sound era produced some of the most beautiful, arresting films ever made. From City Lights to Metropolis, Guardian and Observer critics pick the 10 best

October 2013

August 2013

  • Max Schreck as Nosferatu

    Sirens & Sinners: Weimar Cinema – in pictures

    In Germany's Weimar years, while inflation soared, the film industry flourished. Here is a selection of our favourite images from a new book that documents the era

July 2013

  • 1931, TABU

    Philip French's classic DVD
    Tabu

    Murnau's South Seas silent movie is poetry in motion, writes Philip French

October 2012

  • Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II

    The Big Screen by David Thomson – review

    David Thomson pens a love letter to cinema while lamenting its fate in our digital age, writes Peter Conrad

November 2011

  • Janet Gaynor, George O'Brien in the film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    My favourite film
    My favourite film – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Pamela Hutchinson tops up our writers' favourite film series with a passionate paean to FW Murnau's monochrome melodrama

May 2011

  • city girl

    Philip French's classic DVD
    City Girl

    Philip French welcomes the re-release of FW Murnau's lyrical City Girl, the inspiration for Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven

November 2010

  • joseph beuys

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Auf wiedersehen Britart: Germany wins when it comes to art

    Jonathan Jones: Is Germany the greatest European art nation of the 20th century?

October 2010

  • Nosferatu.

    The 25 best horror films of all time
    Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror: No 7 best horror film of all time

    FW Murnau, 1922

October 2009

  • Philip French's classic DVD
    Classic DVD: Phantom/The Archduke's Finances

    Philip French revels in the rerelease of two classics by FW Murnau, director of Nosferatu

February 2009

  • Alfred Hitchcock on the set of The Mountain Eagle (1926), with his future wife Alma Reville behind

    The Master and Murnau

    A new exhibition reveals how much Britain's greatest film director owed to his apprenticeship in Berlin

November 2004

  • Adaptation of the week
    Death count

    Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)

January 2004

  • The stuff of dreams

    FW Murnau's Sunrise was the film in which cinema, painting, music and literature merged - in a way that is still startling today

About 21 results for FW Murnau
12
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：