The Dryden will screen Mor vran (The Sea of Ravens, Jean Epstein, France 1930, 25 min., 16mm, French w/subtitles), and M (Fritz Lang, Germany 1931, 106 min., 35mm, German w/subtitles) as part of the Tricks through Time series.

With their respective milestones Metropolis and The Fall of the House of Usher, Fritz Lang and Jean Epstein each gifted film history the most stunning imagery and visual effects. We are opening our July program with their first studio-produced sound films, inviting you to explore how Lang and Epstein assimilated what sound technologies had to offer to the art and imagination of cinema. The Sea of Ravens is the second docu-fiction Epstein directed in his beloved Brittany, France, casting the weathered bodies and faces of local islanders. And after hearing Peter Lorre's whistle in Lang's drama-thriller M, you will never be able to forget his shadow . . .

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Jun-26]