The Trial Of The Chicago 7 & Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

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In this episode I'm joined by Alan Mattli as we discuss one very verbose and one very quiet film: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 and DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI. THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 is the second film by director Aaron Sorkin, who brings his typical penchant for talking to the table in this court room drama. We discuss whether Sorkin’s approach works for a film of this nature and what the politics of the movie are. DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI is a central piece of German Expressionism, so I have Alan explain to me what that is. He also tells me what keeps him coming back to this film about a homicidal showman, who uses a sleepwalker as his instrument of murder -- he's seen it five times already! Watch the film on Youtube: With German intertitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpF4MoeeBVI With English intertitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0KB2XC29o The book about German expressionism and its thematic connection to Nazism is called FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER: A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE GERMAN FILM by Siegfried Kracauer. There is a film called FFROM CALIGARI TO HITLER: GERMAN CINEMA IN THE AGE OF THE MASSES by director Rüdiger Suchsland, which is based on the book.