Like watching ghosts in High-Def.

Streamed through the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the National Gallery of Art from a restoration by the Cineteca di Bologna. The print was amazing, I've never seen anything this old look this good. Find it to see what an early silent can look like. The quality of the nitrate is amazing, beautiful. The costumes are pre-WW1 and capture the mannerisms and high-drama operatic art of the culture, the time, and the place. Very innovative blocking and camera work for that time. Well worth the viewing for the connoisseur.

Masterpiece.

Unrealistic portrayal of psychiatry in the context of a whodunnit surrounding an amnesiac. Features a very interesting two-minute surrealist sequence of dream interpretation by Salvador Dali about two thirds of the way in to the movie, which was originally twenty minutes long and is now considered a Lost Film, according to IMDB. However, overall an overly dramatic conventional postwar snoozer in most respects. Quite uncharacteristic of Hitchcock, this may have suffered under David O. Selznick's heavy hand as producer.

Even when Fritz Lang's practical effects are at its campiest, he nonetheless achieves a hypnotic cinematic nightmare that you cannot look away from, and that you cannot unsee. Testament's allegory of the spreading malevolent criminal enterprise that would inundate, then overwhelm, and then metamorphose into the German government, is as relevant today as it was prescient when Lang released it in 1933. A must-see for film buffs and anyone who cares about the lingering effects and recurring infections of twentieth-century fascism.