#Westfront1918, #GWPabst, 1930 is the root of #PathsOfGlory, #ComeAndSee, and #SavingPrivateRyan, among so many others.

It covers a lot and must have been overwhelming to many audiences at the time.

I could have done without a lot that's in the opening, including learning a new racist slur as a term for coffee (in German, and hard "r").

Like with #ShanghaiExpress earlier today, so many older films are blatantly and uncaringly racist, misogynistic, homophobic; just bad in so many ways.

Elegant classics seen at the Paramount Theatre last night for the silent film Pandora's Box from 1929.
#sfba #ParamountTheatreOakland
#Oakland #Lincoln #Packard #PandorasBox #DieBuchseDerPandora #GWPabst

89 years ago:
A Modern Hero (US)
A 1920s circus performer uses every means at his disposal to achieve fame and fortune at the expense of others.
1934-04-21
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/177438
#AModernHero #GWPabst #Movies

97 years ago:
Secrets of a Soul (DE)
Original title: Geheimnisse einer Seele
Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares (designed by Ernö Metzner and photographed by Gu...
1926-03-24
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/84954
#SecretsofaSoul #GWPabst #LiliDamita #ClassicMovies

92 years ago:
The 3 Penny Opera (DE)
Original title: Die 3 Groschen-Oper
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
1931-02-18
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/42837
#The3PennyOpera #GWPabst #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

94 years ago:
Pandora's Box (DE)
Original title: Die Büchse der Pandora
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast and Lulu's seedy old friend, Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitab...
1929-01-30
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/905
#PandorasBox #GWPabst #ClassicFilm #ClassicMovies #Movies #Film

@Dustin It's a film that fares the test of time quite well due to G. W. Pabst's direction and Bertolt Brecht's writing. Brecht had a largely uncredited influence on another timeless film (Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles) due his development of the concept of "Epic Theater". #bertoltbrecht #gwpabst #ThreepennyOpera #MelBrooks

#ThreepennyOpera is an incredibly sophisticated & biting satire of the capitalist society where criminals & the law go hand in hand. Even beggars are categorized & commodified. Polly takes over & addresses the board of the bank, "One can rob a bank, or one can use a bank to rob others”. It ends with Peachum declaring allegiance to Mackie & Tiger-Brown. When asked "If the poor are so powerful why do they need us?" Peachum replies. "Because they don't know we need them." Indeed. #GWPabst #musical

Abwege aka The Devious Path (G.W.Pabst, 1928) #Abwege #GWPabst #G.W. Pabst #GeorgWilhelmPabst #SilentFilm #Film #Movie #Cinema #TheDeviousPath #GermanFilm