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Hace 2 días · Industrial refuse litters the shore along a bleak waterfront in an unidentified harbor. A giant Sisyphean dredge scoops mud from a channel and into a massive...
Hace 11 horas · Quarto dei sette film di Marlene Dietrich con von Sternberg, fu il maggiore incasso nel 1932 e rimarrà il più grande successo al botteghino della coppia venuta dalla vecchia Europa. Non ha nulla di moderno, anzi è molto “datato”, perché affonda nel linguaggio cinematografico appena uscito dal muto. Melodramma esotico, punta ogni centesimo su una…
Ufa producer Erich Pommer wanted to land an international hit, so he provided an extraordinary budget and assembled a top-class team: actor Emil Jannings recommended the director Josef von Sternberg, who had recently directed him in The Last Command (1928), which helped to win him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Scr: Jules Furthman. Pho: Harold Rosson. Ed: Helen Lewis. Premiere: September 16, 1928. 76 min. A chronicle of the lower depths of society, The Docks of New York was created entirely on a movie set in Hollywood.
Hace 5 días · The Last Command. Dir: Josef von Sternberg. Scr: Lajos Biro, John F. Goodrich, Herman J. Mankiewicz. Pho: Bert Glennon. Ed: William Shea. Premiere: January 22, 1928. 85 min. “Based on a true story” is usually a lame trick to try and get the audience to buy into an absurd story premise.
Hace 3 días · Of the six films that director Josef von Sternberg and star Marlene Dietrich made together for Paramount between 1930 and 1935, their final collaboration, the bluntly titled The Devil Is a Woman, is the funniest and loosest.
16 de jun. de 2024 · The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of von Sternberg’s greatest works, gritty evocations of gangster life (Underworld), the Russian Revolution (The Last Command), and working-class desperation (The Docks of New York) rendered as shadowy movie spectacle.
