Faust

Year: 1926

Grade: B+

Country: Germany

Director: Murnau

Review

emil jannings and f.w. murnau team up again to great effect. this one isn’t as entertaining or watchable as last laugh, but it’s a tour-de-force of early filmmaking and one that officially puts both of them on my good list. i’m not a fan of silent cinema, or a whole lot of anything before 1939, but murnau’s early stuff is as interesting thematically and visually, as anything else during that time. this one has as hefty a set of themes as you can probably address – good, evil, love. artfully done film that every film lover should watch once and then revisit every 10 years or so.