Review of Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) by Emre T — 20 Feb 2010

Like Citizen Kane, Sunrise is one of those movies that introduce viewers to the notion of film as art... Part of what continues to make it great is its creation in a particular utopian moment in film history: the end of the silent era, when movies reached a certain pinnacle of visual expressiveness that was tied to a dream of universality, a belief that cinema could speak an international tongue.