La Chute de la maison Usher

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La Chute de la maison Usher (1928) is a horror film directed by Jean Epstein based on The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Famed film director Luis Buñuel worked on this film with Epstein, and also worked as assistant director on Epstein's film Mauprat (1926). It is not to be confused with the American short film The Fall of the House of Usher also made in 1928, directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.
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  • 1928

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  • 1 h 3 min

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Jean Epstein

Jean Epstein (March 25, 1897, Warsaw – April 2, 1953, Paris) was a film director and early film theoretician. He started directing his own films in 1922 with Pasteur, followed by L'Auberge rouge and Coeur fidèle (both 1923). Famous film director Luis Buñuel worked as an assistant director to...

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The Fall of the House of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. It was slightly revised...

The Oval Portrait

"The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest...
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