You're being so circumspect.
http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/3-silent-classics-by-josef-von-sternberg/1797
― 2 + 2 is vah-gi-nah (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i havent seen anything in this box. but i want to .
― piranha karenina (s1ocki), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The Last Command is pretty good. Emil Jannings perfected this nodding tick thing with his head once he goes bananas.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost - what s1ocki said so I need to review my Xmas wish list...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Here, too: http://www.notcoming.com/features/vonsternberganddietrich/
― C0L1N B..., Tuesday, 24 August 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The link was already in Auteurs, Eric.
Also, there were these screencaps a few days ago ... there are some amazing shots of seas of faces, like in the Docks of NY tavern wedding when the parson asks for objections and everyone raises their hands.
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2119
von Sternberg's chapter about Jannings in the box booklet is acidic.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
How many people on this thread own a copy of Fun in a Chinese Laundry?
also, this:
i havent seen anything in this box. but i want to .― piranha karenina (s1ocki)
― piranha karenina (s1ocki)
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen The Last Command because for years a shitty VHS transfer was available in most video stores (foreign film tokenism)
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
foreign film tokenism
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
(didn't really need use the qtag there, sorry)
Haven't read the box booklet, but I seem to remember eye opening but ultimately not surprising revelations from FiaCL about Jo's complicated carrot and stick dealings with his tortured, chunky prima donnas Emil Jannings and Charles Laughton.
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, Morbius gets top billing and Geoffrey O'Brien is an afterthought.
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I already have and love Docks Of New York but am gonna buy the box anyway.
― Zooster vs. The Slapp (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The Scarlet Empress is overly praised I think, but I recently saw his version of Crime and Punishment (with Peter Lorre as Raskolnikov) and was very impressed.
― mein voight-kampff (corey), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, I remeber liking C&P
and The Shanghai Gesture, of course.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone here seen anatahan?
― balls, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, of course. in many ways, the ultimate Sternberg. very difficult film but worth anyone's time.
as much as I love this box's existence (and Morbs' review of it), my very fave Sternberg remains largely unseeable (unless you caught a gorgeous copy of it on French TCM a few months ago) - Thunderbolt (1929), a remake of Underworld (included on the box) but infinitely superior. most Sternberg films dazzle the eyes; this one dazzles the ears as well.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
French TCM!
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Better French TCM than Finnish TMI.
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
But yeah: French TCM! Jonathan Rosenbaum better watch his back, KJB is gunning for him.
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Tom Gunning (of 'cinema of attractions' and 'minor cinema' fame)? (another idol)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Jannings, having assured himself of the acting ability of a basket of eggs by opening one and noting its evil sulphurous content, handed the basket to me, and said, "Surely you will not forego the pleasure of smashing a few of these eggs on my head so that I know exactly how you wish me to play this
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Never heard of that Gunning, but judging by google images, he could be one of ILX's Big Beard Boys.
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I was not bothered with all this during the prenatal period, and I was neither a psychoanalyst nor an obstetrician, but a film director and heretofore every conceivable whimsy on the part of an actor had somehow been digested
― build my challops high (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
where did you see French TCM?
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 August 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
My review of Underworld.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 August 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― Can You Please LOL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 August 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
oh that special project!
Alfred, you & Orson ... need to reconsider.
Rolls Royce is only "gay" in the '20s sense, ie, he's played by an English character actor.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 August 2010 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
how do you explain the performance and dialogue?
I didn't dislike Underworld! Its grit and command of the American vernacular was just unexpected. I expected smoke, mirrors, and bizarre fade-outs.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 August 2010 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, Brook's more like Eric Blore than Franklin Pangborn.
The intertitles also have RR and Feathers overcoming a mutual attraction. They can be ignored when it's convenient.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 August 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Watched Underworld last night. Not as atmospheric as I had expected but it was compelling, especially the last half-hour or so.
― Lardo Calrissian (corey), Wednesday, 1 September 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Anatahan on the way
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=20605
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:48 (seven years ago) link
re the very first post itt, i met Dave Kehr the other night!
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Kinda looks like the CC box of Marlene/JvS is irresistible, half-price at B&N.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
I couldn’t resist, at any rate
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_exvKnrK6gbut I still might need to get that box
― Pwn Goal Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
Completely overwhelmed by Morocco and Dishonored - like rediscovering cinema
― flappy bird, Monday, 29 April 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
I revere every single one of his Dietrich movies, except The Blue Angel.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
The box set was revelatory in my part of town at the beginning of the year. I may check it out of the uni library again.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 April 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link