Josef Von Sternberg
Author: Hermann G. Weinberg Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4302330924 EAN: 9780405111372 ISBN: 0405111371 Number Of Pages: 254 Publication Date: 1978-06 [... more]
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Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich
 No "Angel": Donald Spoto tends to write pleasant, sometimes very insightful biographies that tend to look at different aspects of the stars they focus on. "Blue Angel," however, is not up to par. While his biography of actress Marlene [... more]
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Herzog/Kinski: Collection
From Amazon.com: The six-film Herzog/Kinski boxed set is a sleek compilation of a visionary cinematic collaboration. The history of cinema is dotted with great directors who have found an actor whose face, voice, and style capture that director's point [... more]
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Merry-Go-Round
From Amazon.com: Erich von Stroheim's credit doesn't appear on Merry-Go-Round, though he wrote the story--about a caddish Count (Norman Kerry) in Old Vienna falling in love with a virginal commoner (Mary Philbin)--and began directing the film. "Von& [... more]
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I Claudius
Amazon.com Essential Video: This superbly acted, mordantly funny romp through 70 years or so of Roman history is one of the best-loved miniseries ever made, and deservedly so. Derek Jacobi plays Roman Emperor Claudius, who reflects in old age on his life [... more]
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From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies
From Amazon.com: Biting, brilliant, and marvelously witty, From Reverence to Rape is the first and the last word on women in the movies--perhaps the best book ever written on the subject. Most feminist film critics produce work that conforms to the [... more]
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Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, ...
Surprisingly Dull: I had high hopes for this book. The volumes in this series on the origins of cinema, the Twenties and the Forties are very good. This book, however, proved a chore to get through. The big problem for me was that Balio seemed more [... more]
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The Parade's Gone By...
They Were There: For many years this book was considered the definitive, authoritative tome on silent films, and remains, today, a must read for anyone interested in this subject. Its greatest, most singular draw is the priceless information Brownlow [... more]
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Shanghai Gesture
From Amazon.com: Josef von Sternberg's The Shanghai Gesture is one of the most perverse portraits of decadence to squeak past Hollywood censors. Set in a Shanghai of crowded, claustrophobic, and gloriously phony street sets, Sternberg tells the tale of [... more]
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It/Discovering The It Girl
Two reasons why this great DVD could've been even better...: This is a review of the Kino DVD release of "It". Let's start by saying this is one of the most enjoyable silent films I've seen. This is entirely due to the presence of Clara Bow, [... more]
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Scarlet Empress
Amazon.com Essential Video: The radiant Princess Sophia Frederica (Marlene Dietrich) gets taken to Russia, renamed Catherine, and married off to the Grand Duke Peter. Peter is "a royal half-wit" with all the physical (and intellectual) appeal [... more]
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Macao
Interesting exotic film noir featuring a sultry Jane Russell: This begins with a chase scene: a man in a white suit and white hat running, being chased by some thugs and a sinister Chinese guy with a knife. The man stops and looks back, forgetting [... more]
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