Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, September 27, 1969 Page~~_. TwH_~G N DAL audy epe br2,16 ---- ____ _._. ___ ...___-- _. k Irrationality froma-and for-a tumultuous age By BRUCE IIENSTELL When World War I ended German society collapsed. Murder, political aassination, was the order of the day. The Kaiser had abdicated, the Spar- ticist Revolt in Berlin had been crushed, the liberal, bourgeoise Wei- mar republic had been founded. Whatever the effects might have been on the stability and health of the German nation, the new Weimar period was accompanied in the arts by a renaissance as great as any other in this century. And part of this resurgence involved the German film. fThe new men of the German cin- ema, men such as Lang, Lubitsch, Freund, Jannings all later to become major figures in Hollywood, lacked the color, the politics of men like Brecht in the theater. But their view of the world was new and fresh in an age where audiences were impressed by style and technique in the arts. The word which seems to have been stuck, for better or worse, to these new German films is "expressionism." The better word might be "Caligari- ism," and the definition would be: "of the nature or pertaining to" The Cabinet of Doctor Caligal. In 1919, this film was released. The effect was immediate and as drastic as that which greeted Eisen- stein's Potemkin. The story apparent- ly concerned a mysterious carnival doctor and his sleepwalker: a strange man dressed in black seemingly con- scious only to the voice of his master. What follows is a series of inexplic- able murders, climaxing in the un- masking of the doctor. What struck the audience was not only the novelty of the story but the technique of the filming: strange. contorted sets replaced any realistic representation, lighting was harsh shadows and bright whites, the action seined confined and cramped. What emerged was a stormy attempted of the human soul, told as if that soul itself was being presented, not merely spoken about. Hence the term expressionist, adopted from the pre -war painters involve against the impressiopists and looking for a way to express what was inside, what they felt and experienced, what they could not force into rational, logical terms. Calgari was only the first in a series of films, expressionist in style, the products of the turmoil of Wei- mar German, of a Europe between wars, profoundly disturbed by the discovery of Freud and others that they was in each man an -inside which demanded its voice and would find a way to speak. This was the Golden Age of Ger- man cinema, 1919 through the twenties and early thirties, until the arrival of Hitler. In this period we find the fantasies of Fritz Lang (Destiny. The Nibelungen, Dr. Ma- base, which portray a world locked by logic and death. Here is Dr, Ma- buse. the head of a criminal band in Berlin, a madman possessed of the power to literally become others through disquises, through hynotism. Here too is Siegfried, the hero of an un-Wagnian German epic. These are some of the films of this period which Cinema Guild is presenting in an extraordinary week-long festival of German Ex- pressionist Cinema. Beside Lang, the festival will show the classic Nosfer- atu, the first screen version of Dra- cula, directed by F. W. Murnay. the masterful Variety with Emil Jan- nings, to whom was given the first Academy Award for acting.eAlso to be shown are Karl Grune's The Street, and Golem. The festival will conclude with Paul Leni's The Cat and the Canary. This last film was made at Universal in Hollywood, after Leni had been brought to the United States as a result of his di- rectorial triumphs in Germany. The film is unique in that it both estab- lished a genre of horror film-the haunted house-and established Uni- versal studios as the master of the form. The festival represents a unique opportunity to see these rare films together. The most famous of them all, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, will also be shown but rather than in isolation here surrounded by other films of the same time period. All showings will be in the Archi- tecture Aud., in the School of Archi- tecture and Design-the usual Cine- ma Guild hall. The first four films, each shown once the first two nights of the festival-Monday and Tues- day, Sept. 29 and 30-will be free. An extensive catalog has been prepared to accompany the exhibition. STUDENT ASSEMBLY TUESDAY-7 P.M. SEPTEMBER 30 1018 Angell Hall ALL LS&A Students Welcome I L SATURDAY and SUNDAY Triu p o he Wl Dir. LENI RUFENSTAHL (1934 ) -See what facism used to be like and compare "A killer"-Richard Daley "One to send my kids to"-D. Harvey 7 & 9 ARCHITECTURE 662-8871 /7c AUDITORIUM DAIL YOFFICIAL BULLETIN SATURDAY, sEP1EM1BER 7 Day Caenidar Depart ment of Romance Languages and Literatures: International Confer- ence on the Epic Poem Lairaucana: Rackham Building. 10:15 am Contemporary Directions: George B Wilson, conductor: Rackham Lecture Hall, 8:00 p.M. General Notices If you wish to do your student teach- ing Winter Term (Jnuary 1970), to the Secondary Directed Teaching; Of- fice in. Room 2292, University School, no later than September 30, 1969 to pick up necessary information and materials antd plan to attend a one- hour group meeting after either 4:30 p.m. or 7:00 pm. on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Failure to follow these instructions will result in your application being dropped from the iWnter Tern directed teaching pograim! If it is you inten- tion to dop or to change to a later term, please inform us (Telephone 764- 8402) Elizabeth Sargent Lee Medical His- tory Prize: Established in 1939 by Prof. Alfred O. Lee, a member of the faculty from 1908 to 1938. The income from the bequest is to be awarded to juniorj or senior premedical students in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts for writing the best essay on some topic concerning the history of medi- cine. Freshmen in Medical S c h o o 1 who are on the Joint Program in Liberal Arts and Medicine or who were admitted after their junior year in LSA are also eligible. Judges: Profes- sors Frank Whitehouse, Jr., Chairman, Carlton F. Wells and Frederick H. Test Consultation with committee members by appointment. Prizes of $150 and $104. Manuscripts, 3,000 to :,000 words should be typed, double spaced on one side of the paper on regular manu- script sized paper. Submit two copies at 1220 Angell Hall by December 1, 1969. Graduate Assembly: At its meeting on September 24, 1969, Grauate As- sembly voiced concern for the success of the October 15th Strike Against the War and student and community in- volvement in the anti-war effort. Graduate Assembly passed the follow- inn eoutos 1 s Be it resolved that Graduate As- OCTOBER 6, 1969, MONDAY - semnbly stiongly support and endorse Harris Bank: All degree levels in the student-community anti-war ef- Econ for banking operations. fort coordinated by the New Mobiliza- OCTOBER 7, TUESDAY tion Committee to end the war. Burroughs Corporation - afternoon 2) LE it resolved that Graduate As- only. Bach. and Mast. in Math and sembly actively encourage students, Speech, all degree levels in Gen. Lib. faculty and university staff to strike 1 Arts areas and Bach in Business, for against the war on October 15 in or- Syst. Rep, Data Process, Mgmt. Trng., (ler to participate in the anti-war ral- Sales. lies on campus and in Ann Arbor. 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