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F. W. Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm “F. W.” Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s. Although some of Murnau’s films have been lost, most still survive. While the horror film Nosferatu (1922) is his most famous work, the romantic melodrama Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is his critically most acclaimed; the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll named it the fifth-best film in the history of motion pictures. Murnau's characteristics are an atmospheric imagery and an innovative use of camera movement. Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929–1968 included him in the "pantheon" of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.
As director
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Synthwave Horror: Nosferatu
Hunting in the South Seas
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
City Girl
4 Devils
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Faust
Tartuffe
The Last Laugh
The Finances of the Grand Duke
The Expulsion
Nosferatu
Phantom
The Burning Soil
Marizza
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
The Haunted Castle
Journey into the Night
The Boy in Blue
The Head of Janus
The Hunchback and the Dancer
Satan
Evening – Night – Morning
