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Share with: This silent movie horror from 1924 inspired several remakes and stars the great Conrad Veidt in the title role of Paul Orlac, a revered concert pianist who – after losing both hands in a train crash – find himself with a newly transplanted pair of hands, namely those of a recently executed murderer… THE HANDS OF ORLAC (ORLAC’S HÄNDE) once again features the combined talents of director Robert Wiene and its star Conny Veidt four years after their collaboration on the ground-breaking German expressionist horror THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. Based on the novel Les Mains d’...

The German director Robert Wiene is best known for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, perhaps the most influential piece of expressionist cinema. He's not as well known as Murnau or Lang, but the quality of his work is on the same level. The Hands of Orlac is a very fine example of a cinema haunted by the violence and death of the First World War, and containing within it both seeds of fascist aesthetics and the darkness that characterises film noir.

Wild Bunch International and Capricci create new label Wild West 02/06/2021 - The two groups are coming together to develop 12 genre projects per year, both feature films and series, building on the So Film de Genre residency programme The Swarm by Just Philippot, one of the standout titles in the new wave of young French genre cinema Genre films and series are on the rise, and a growing number of initiatives are taking shape in France with a view to surfing this new wave, with the American group Blumhouse often serving as their model. Following the creation of the Parasomnia Productions labe...

Fritz Lang, (born December 5, 1890, Vienna, Austria-Hungary—died August 2, 1976, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. Lang had already created an impressive body of work in the German cinema before coming to the United States in 1934. Although it took him some 21 years to fashion 22 Hollywood films, arguably at least half of them are noirish masterpieces of menace—tone poems of fe...

Our next free online masterclass features DJ Spooky in conversation with Carter Burwell and Graham Reynolds. These three extraordinary musicians (and friends) will talk about composing for film--touching on the similarities and differences for silent cinema. Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) is an artist and composer with an affinity for silent film. His live remix of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation--Rebirth of a Nation--premiered in 2004 and Miller went on to score Dovzhenko's Earth and Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, among others. He executive-produced the Pioneers of African-Ame...