When I started doing these Blast From The Past reviews, I did not intend for the series to be reviews from the DISTANT past! And while they haven’t all been, I’ve done several reviews now of movies that are in the area of one hundred years old! The Gold Rush and Nosferatu aren’t exactly the kind of movies that a lot of folks are checking out here in 2024. But that’s all part of filling in cinematic blindspots, I guess; you have to do them from every era. And there’s nothing wrong with building a repertoire of 1920’s films.
Maybe I should find the time to watch Metropolis , among others. And here it is, we are traveling back to 1920 this edition to take a look at The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari , a movie I’ve admittedly been very curious about ever since I watched The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent , and we all heard Nicholas Cage talk up his love for this picture.
It was not the first I’d heard of the classic German Expressionist film, but it was the first time I’d really considered adding it to my Playlist on Plex. I do believe as of this watching, this is now the oldest film I have ever seen, supplanting the title from Nosferatu, which held it for two days. Sorry, Nossy.
Forget Metropolis; maybe I should move into the 1910’s next. Hell, maybe I’ll go all the way back to A Trip To The Moon . It would be hard to go further back than that! Anyway, The Cabinet Of Dr.
Caligari is the story of a young man named Francis and his fiancé Jane. When Francis fi.