May Stairs

The Third Man

After a long interval, we will ascend and descend cinematic stairs again and will hide in the dark corners of the staircases which generate our dreams and nightmares. Another round of celebrating the most vital vertical element of the movies and their spaces. 

Previous posts include: Insane stairs, Sirk stairs, Stairways to hell, Stairs and mirrors, Reincarnation of stairs, High society stairs, Metaphysical stairs, Dialectical stairs, Capra stairs, Stairways to heaven, Poetics of space: stairs.

In descending order:
La ferme aux loups (Richard Pottier, 1943)
Laughter (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1930)
The Golem (Carl Boese, Paul Wegener, 1920)
The Great Gabbo (James Cruze, 1929)
The Diabolical Dr. Z (Jesus Franco, 1966)
Gwen, le livre de sable (Jean-François Laguionie, 1985)
Son of Ali Baba (Kurt Neumann, 1952)
The Little Women (Mervyn LeRoy, 1949)