Von Sternberg, Josef (1894-1969)
Although there are other achievements for which to salute film director (and screenwriter, producer, and occasional cinematographer) Josef von Sternberg, his reputatio...
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Critical Essay by Tony Richardson
Inevitably, one approached a work so obviously personal [as The Saga of Anatahan] with certain associations and expectation. The subject itself seemed to give ideal ...
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Critical Essay by Jack Smith
Von Sternberg's movies had to have plots even tho they already had them inherent in the images. What he did was make movies naturally—he lived in a visual w...
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Critical Essay by Herman G. Weinberg
There are no scabrous passages ever in Sternberg, not because he is a moralist—although he is that, in its most salutary sense, without any a priori moral ...
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Critical Essay by John Baxter
It is only in the light of Sternberg's private life that the world of his films is illuminated; a world where fathers, if they appear at all, are self-interested ...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Rheuban
Between the lines of [Sternberg's autobiography, Fun in a Chinese Laundry,] and behind the images of the films, one may detect the constant contention of discip...
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Critical Essay by National Board of Review Magazine
A story of mother love would, at first sight, seem strange material for Joseph von Sternberg's directorial genius. The director of The Salva...
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Critical Essay by John Alfred Thomas
Dishonored is likely to seem a fabric of "hokum," especially when it is taken so seriously by its director. Each episode is protracted with fond car...
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Question 1 of 10:Before a wrist injury made it impossible, the young
Dietrich
was set to become a professional...?
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Tennis playerPainterFashion designerQuestion 2 of 10:
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Dec 15 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 22 since 1900: 1917 - In World War One, peace negotiations opened between
the new Russian government and Germ...
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Berlin (dpa) - For decades, Germany has had a lean time persuading
international movie-makers to shoot their films in the country.
Problems caused by Germany's post-...
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Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, will be revived for the first time in decades at Film Forum for two weeks from Jan. 18 through Jan. 31 ...
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The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage, by Eli Wallach. Harcourt, 320 pages, $25.It never mattered whether the part was big or small, whether the movie was wonderful or execrable, Eli Wallach ...
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BERLIN, Feb 5 (Reuters) - It was more than just the historic
settings in Berlin that drew Tom Cruise to Germany last summer
to film his $80 million epic "Valkyrie" about a failed 1944
attempt to a...
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The idea for Rio Bravo (1959) began with Howard Hawks hating High Noon (1952). In 1962, Hawks explained this to me, referring to High Noon as that picture “in which Gary Cooper ran...
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Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, from a screenplay by Mr. Nolan and David S. Goyer, based on a story by Mr. Goyer and the Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics, plays o...
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Delicate snares are everywhere in Lolita, and the tread of 50th anniversaries can be as crushing as Hallmark (and middle age). So let’s insist on this: The book is still brand-new, drying on ...
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Von Sternberg, Josef (1894-1969)
Critical Essay by Tony Richardson
Femme Fatale: A MarleneDietrich Quiz
