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This is particularly true considering the sheer amount of torture Scorsese puts us through to get there; Caligari is short and sweet, while this film plays like a story-telling uncle who refuses to go home long after his stories lost their amusement.
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"Our own Dr. Caligari is going to grace us with a demonstration of his formidable mental powers!"
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We revered his vedute, the dramatic views of Rome with their brilliant manipulations of space and scale; we adored his carceri, the imaginary prisons where swinging ropes and bridges to nowhere crisscrossed soaring stone chambers in ominous, pre - "Caligari" gloom.
Flights of Fancy, Centuries Apart Ada Louise Huxtable 2007
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To Lindsay's category one would be tempted to add, "pattern in motion," applying it to such a film as the "Caligari" which he and I have seen together and discussed during these past few days.
The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 1905
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A myth seems to step out of each new door: Orpheus and Eurydice, Faust or, more banal, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
A Voyage Into Memory and the Subconscious Peter Cowie 2011
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He also made a documentary, "Caligari to Libeskind," on German film and architecture during the 1920s and '30s and its influence.
'Train' Out of Iran Nat Hentoff 2011
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To most silent-film fans, the finest flower of German expressionism is "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
High-Altitude Viewing Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Tonight's lineup of spooky classics includes the original 1931 Frankenstein and the notorious Freaks, plus in the wee hours the silent masterpieces Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu and Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera.
Matt's Guide to Monday TV: Stephen King on Horror Movies, House Behind Bars and More! 2011
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In "From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film," Siegfried Kracauer famously discussed it as a foreshadowing of fascist tyranny.
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But finally the theories to end all theories Caligari - So, judging from the various threads after The Stolen Earth this is what's going to happen:
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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