The Fall of the House of Usher

Jean Epstein, 1928, from Poe. Roderick Usher (Jean Debucourt) paints his wife Madeleine (Marguerite Gance) until the sitting looks like a burial; a friend arrives; the house does what the title says. Slow motion, dust, a guitar string. Luis Buñuel was an assistant and left over how literal the adaptation should be. CNC restored the hour-or-so cut. Epstein wants the decay photographed, not explained.