Sunrise

Trailer (QuickTime Video) for Eureka Video's Masters of Cinema edition of Sunrise (1927, directed by F.W. Murnau). "...F. W. Murnau - invited to America by William Fox, the promise of complete artistic freedom, and a blank cheque - made Sunrise on the cusp of two eras: it represents the silent film at the peak of its poetic sophistication, and the sound film in its infancy. Fox told Murnau to take his time, to make any film he wished, and Sunrise was completed without any studio interference — as though with a dying flourish in a medium which at that moment had achieved a startling richness of expression. It was the swan song of the era."