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Cinema has come a long way, given its brief history within the arts, but its creation, influences, and history cannot be disregarded. While once Germany served as the epicenter of the moving picture - beginning with the Lumière brothers or Georges Méliès in France - German silent cinema’s importance is often disregarded in relation to the creation of Hollywood. Many German artists immigrated to the United States to escape the wars in Europe and many took their talents with them, which helped to shape what we today regard as Hollywood. During the early Hollywood era, however, the German cinema of the Weimar Republic (1918 to 1933) held as much world fame as Hollywood. Given the importance of this period, the American Cinematheque will be screening The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Algol on April 30 at the Egyptian Theater. The latter is a brand-new, restored version that will be shown for the first time in America, according to Munich Film Museum director Stefan Drößler, whose archive ...