Sunrise (1927) by F.W. Murnau.
“This is the first silent film you can actually hear. And there is no sound. It is edited in such a modern way ! When you see the city, you see the tramway and you can hear it. For me, Murnau really is the inventor of modern cinema. Before him, people made pictures, invented visual effects, Méliès, Lumière or Edison brought things, but he understood first modern cinema. He created it. There you see this man who makes the perfect symbiosis between image, editing and sound. More than Eisenstein or Griffith, for me, he invented everything. He understood everything of the editing of talking pictures. Everyone should see Sunrise once in his lifetime.”