Average Rating: 8.8/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 1
Boasting masterful cinematography to match its well-acted, wonderfully romantic storyline, Sunrise is perhaps the final -- and arguably definitive -- statement of the silent era.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 1
Boasting masterful cinematography to match its well-acted, wonderfully romantic storyline, Sunrise is perhaps the final -- and arguably definitive -- statement of the silent era.
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Considered by many to be the finest silent film ever made by a Hollywood studio, F.W. Murnau's Sunrise represents the art of the wordless cinema at its zenith. Based on the Hermann Sudermann novel A Trip to Tilsit, this "Song of Two Humans" takes place in a colorful farming community, where people from the city regularly take their weekend holidays. Local farmer George O'Brien, happily married to Janet Gaynor, falls under the seductive spell of Margaret Livingston, a temptress from The City. He
Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.
Sep 23, 1927 Limited
Dec 9, 2008
Fox Films
All Critics (40) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (1) | DVD (16)
F.W. Murnau's career-peak nova, the crowning film from that sacred, edge-of-the-abyss year of 1927.
In its artistry, dramatic power and graphic suggestion it goes a long way toward realizing the promise of this foreign director in his former works, notably Faust.
Picturesquely soporific.
Top CriticReleased in 1927, the last year of silent film, it's a pinnacle of that lost art.
Mr. Murnau proves by Sunrise that he can do just as fine work in Hollywood as he ever did in Germany.
F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1928) conquered time and gravity with a freedom that was startling to its first audiences. To see it today is to be astonished by the boldness of its visual experimentation.
Sunrise may not be the greatest film ever made (as the French critics once declared), but it certainly is one of the most lyrical, stunning, and influential works in cinema history.
F.W. Murnau's first American film is a tour de force of silent filmmaking.
One of those seminal works without which modern movies wouldn't exist...
[an] unexpectedly harmonious marriage of German expressionism and Hollywood romanticism.
Murnau's visual mastery, his marriage of expressionism, visual lyricism and the daring technological ambition of pre-sound Hollywood, shows silent cinema at its pinnacle.
One of the last great silent movies.
One of the finest romantic dramas of all time.
An example of True Love styled to cinema perfection.
Moody and melodramatic, a technical treat that grabs hold of the viewer and will not let him go.
One of the finest examples of cinema's artistic flowering at the cusp of the silents-to-sound transition...
Fox's highly anticipated DVD release of Sunrise will not disappoint the film's appreciators.... Murnau aficionados particularly are in for a treat.
This sexy melodrama and intense psychological thriller provides an original and satisfying mix of romanticism, artifice and realism.
Quite simply beautiful. One of very few honest and poignant true love stories in cinema. It is very slow paced but highly worthwhile for its moments of romance, humour, tragedy and beauty. Murnau created a timeless silent film that stands up as perhaps one of the greatest films ever made.
December 10, 2011Super Reviewer
Did you say 1927? Are you kidding me?Murnau's first American film is a visual masterpiece and decades ahead of it's time. From the expressionist influenced set designs, to the use of superimpositions, and the masterful use of the camera, this film is a visual feast. The story isn't strong enough to keep one enthralled
June 15, 2011Super Reviewer
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