Original sentence: Inspiration for the film's visual style, according to Merhige, came from Georges Franju's documentary short Blood of the Beasts, as well as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, and the German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr
Edited sentence: Inspiration for the film's visual style, according to Merhige, came from Georges Franju's documentary short Blood of the Beasts, as well as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Stan Brakhage's The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, and the classic German expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr