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Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 02.02 EDT Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in his box at the theatre, and the killer’s bid to escape across the stage, is recreated in a whirlwind sequence in DW Griffith’s 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation. The killing of Lincoln, by the actor John Wilkes Booth, is the most famous murder in a theatre but several other films have since built mysteries around deadly crimes committed before a captive audience. Paul Leni’s dazzling The Last Warning (1928) concerns a Broadway actor’s on-stage death. In the British movie Murder at the Windmill (1949), direct...

Where’s it on? Film4, Monday, 12.40am Now making music videos and commercials over in LA, British filmmaker Daniel Wolfe has yet to follow up this startling debut feature from 2014. Co-written with his brother Matthew, it made enough of an impact at the time to be selected for the Directors’ Fortnight section at Cannes. Moody, provocative and upsetting, it’s a social realist thriller in which a young British-Pakistani woman (Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, who won best British newcomer at that year’s London Film Festival) hides out with her white boyfriend in a caravan in York...

Paul Leni’s THE LAST WARNING, the final film from one of German cinema’s great filmmakers, is presented on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration on home video for the first time in the UK as a part of The Masters of Cinema Series from Eureka Video from February 15th 2021, and we’ve got three copies to give away! Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon’s 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centres on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim’s body goes missing, the death remains u...

Stuttgart-born auteur and film theoretician Paul Leni, whose illusionistic production designs and direction of Waxworks (1924) helped define German Expressionist cinema, was 44 and approaching master status when he died of sepsis on 2 September 1929. Stuttgart-born auteur and film theoretician Paul Leni, whose illusionistic production designs and direction of Waxworks (1924) helped define German Expressionist cinema, was 44 and approaching master status when he died of sepsis on 2 September 1929. Following its limited Christmas Day 1928 release, Leni’s final film The Last Warni...

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