Okay, fun fact: Once when I was younger, I was at my Grandmas, and bored after dinner one night, I started to change channels, and I saw this on what I'm fairly certain is PBS:
This, helped along by a glowing blurb for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in a book of the history of film, sparked a fascination with Weimar-era cinema that lives with me to this day, and I think it helped inform the article I just wrote about the Nazi Titanic film, putting at least the cinematic aspects into perspective.
Also, by an extraordinary coincidence, over a decade after watching this, I watched this documentary for a class on the Weimar Republic when I went to Columbia.
This, helped along by a glowing blurb for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in a book of the history of film, sparked a fascination with Weimar-era cinema that lives with me to this day, and I think it helped inform the article I just wrote about the Nazi Titanic film, putting at least the cinematic aspects into perspective.
Also, by an extraordinary coincidence, over a decade after watching this, I watched this documentary for a class on the Weimar Republic when I went to Columbia.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.