'Doctor Caligari': Off-balance to a fault

Pointless Theatre's "Doctor Caligari" bristles with eerie images, but one of the most resonant ones involves a police station. We're in a German town whose black-and-white, skewed-angle landscapes have recently been visited by murder. When the doors of the local police department swing open, the scene is hardly reassuring. Sitting at a table with an unnervingly slanted surface are two officers -- cutout shapes with moving limbs and staring silhouetted faces. Looking like Indonesian shadow puppet...