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Stories That Last Through The Sleepless Nights by Foreground Eclipse

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Stories That Last Through The Sleepless Nights is a doujin album by Foreground Eclipse released...

Japanese Touhou Project Post-Hardcore J-Rock

Master and Margarita

Will Self and Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Faust (1926) in Movies

Oct 28, 2019

Faust (1926)

1926 | Fantasy, International

7.8

(5 Ratings)

Movie Rating

You can't really judge a film this old (93 years and counting) by modern standards, as it is the product of an entirely different sensibility and is in a mode we rarely see nowadays - it's not naturalistic and doesn't want to be, instead presenting an almost impressionistic series of images as it tells its story.

You might expect it to be slow and heavy, but for the first hour and a bit this rattles along at a tremendous pace - the Devil makes a bet with an Archangel for the soul of the alchemist Faust, granting him eternal youth, wealth, worldly pleasures, and so on. It's still visually impressive and often unexpectedly funny (Emil Jannings as the Devil gives a great comic performance)- a bit earnest and melodramatic in places, but you kind of expect that. Very watchable - I hope I look this good when I'm 93.