The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) + the luminous short film Symphonie diagonale (Viking Eggeling, 1923) with live accompaniment by Pittsburgh Composers Quartet. In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge […]