Ice, if 1939 saw the birth of "true" Modernism (seems late to me), Murnau (a German) was ahead of the game when he made his first American film, Sunrise, in 1927 (just as talkies were coming in).
It's one of the finest American films ever made.
...dot com bold typeface rhetoric. You go clickety click and get your head split. 'The hell you look like on a message board Discussing whether or not the Brother is hardcore?
