The Last Laugh&nbsp;tells a simple tale through intensely subjective devices. A hotel doorman is forced by old age to trade in his gold-buttoned paramilitary finery for a lavatory attendant’s smock, falling from graceful dignity to stooped humiliation in a peculiarly German warning against the decline of benign authority. In contrast to the mechanical wonders of the modern world surrounding him—cars, trains, neon lights, elevators—the porter, and his old-fashioned values, are outdated hulks. A son of rural Westphalia, Murnau located terror in the countryside for&nbsp;Nosferatu;&nbsp;with&nbsp;The Last Laugh,&nbsp;he places it in the city, its reflective surfaces generating a frenzied kaleidoscope.

THE LAST LAUGH with original score by the BERKLEE COLLEGE of MUSIC Silent Film Orchestra

MV Film Society Founder/Executive Director Richard Paradise interviews Sheldon Mirowitz, professor at Berklee College of Music about F. W. Murnau's THE LAST LAUGH for the 2020 FILMUSIC Festival

The Last Laugh Q & A with Sheldon Mirowitz

THE LAST LAUGH with score by the BERKLEE COLLEGE of MUSIC plus special interview with Berklee's Sheldon Mirowitz

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