Horror followed this famed German director to the grave — and beyond. Authorities in a city outside Berlin say thieves pillaged the burial plot belonging to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, making off with ...

About German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, film historian Siegfried Kracauer wrote, “Reality in his films was surrounded by a halo of dreams and presentiments, and a tangible person might ...

The Goethe-Institut have dug deep into the catalogue of films by silent film legend Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau for the 2013 edition of our FOCUS Festival. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was one of the most ...

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Grave robbers have stolen the head of German expressionist cinema maestro Friedrich Wilhelm (F.W.) Murnau, the director of the classic silent vampire film Nosferatu, according to Bild Daily. The ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. In 1922, F.W. Murnau made ...

BERLIN (AP) — Authorities say the skull of the director of 1920s silent vampire classic “Nosferatu” has been stolen from his grave in Germany. Olaf Ihlefeldt, the administrator of the cemetery in ...

When silent film really succeeds, the fact that there's no dialogue track, completely fades away. Only a musical score and perhaps a few intertitles can allow the images standing alone to be all the ...

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Creating a new score for a classic silent film is a big responsibility, one that Sheldon Mirowitz takes very seriously. A professor in the Berklee College of Music’s Film Scoring Department, he ...

Following last year’s release of the restored “Nosferatu,” Kino International has collected six of Murnau’s films in a comprehensive set that covers his creative and innovative peak during the early ...

BERLIN (AP) -- Authorities say the skull of the director of 1920s silent vampire classic "Nosferatu" has been stolen from his grave in Germany. Olaf Ihlefeldt, the administrator of the cemetery in ...