Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964) [masters of Cinema #33]

Reuniting the star and director of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac [Orlac’s Hände] is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism.
Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac’s father is murdered by the dead man’s hands, Orlac begins a steady descent towards madness.

In 1917 a 21 year old Buster Keaton walked on to a film set for the very first time and without a single retake made his screen debut in a comedy sketch in Arbuckle's 'The Butcher Boy'. This collection includes 13 of the 14 films that Arbuckle and Keaton made together (one remains lost) and all of the 19 independent shorts Buster made after getting his own studio in 1920. It charts Buster's early development as one of the greatest performers and directors in the history of film comedy.

In 1917 a 21 year old Buster Keaton walked on to a film set for the very first time and without a single retake made his screen debut in a comedy sketch in Arbuckle's 'The Butcher Boy'. This collection includes 13 of the 14 films that Arbuckle and Keaton made together (one remains lost) and all of the 19 independent shorts Buster made after getting his own studio in 1920. It charts Buster's early development as one of the greatest performers and directors in the history of film comedy.

Reuniting the star and director of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac [Orlac’s Hände] is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism.
Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac’s father is murdered by the dead man’s hands, Orlac begins a steady descent towards madness.

Reuniting the star and director of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, The Hands of Orlac [Orlac’s Hände] is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism.
Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard, it charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist (Conrad Veidt) whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac’s father is murdered by the dead man’s hands, Orlac begins a steady descent towards madness.

Pubblicato in coedizione con Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Un cadavere scomparso dopo tre giorni, un caso impossibile, uno straordinario vangelo apocrifo. Un’indagine metafisica che non smette di interrogarci. Sul monte degli Ulivi un uomo aspetta che i soldati vengano ad arrestarlo per condurlo al supplizio. Quale potenza soprannaturale ha fatto di lui, figlio di falegname, un agitatore di popolo che fa miracoli e predica l’amore e il perdono? Tre giorni dopo, la mattina di Pasqua, Pilato conduce la più stravagante delle inchieste: un cadavere è scomparso ed è ricomparso vivo! C’è dunque un “mistero Gesù”? Man mano che avanza nelle indagini il dubbio gli si insinua nella mente. Questa nuova edizione, riveduta e corretta dall’autore, è seguita dal "Diario di un romanzo rubato", un testo inedito che ha accompagnato la scrittura del Vangelo secondo Pilato, in cui Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt racconta i suoi turbamenti, dubbi, scrupoli ed entusiasmi nel momento di far rivivere la figura e la parola sulle quali si fonda la nostra civiltà occidentale.