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Intertitle of the Week: Big in Japan

I’m excited about watching Ozu’s DRAGNET GIRL because it’s an unusual subject for him, and because it’s influenced by josef Von Sternberg’s crime films of the ’20s.… more →

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The Scarlet Empress - Joseph Von Sternberg (1934)

corporealgloom wrote 2 weeks ago: The Scarlet Empress was the sixth collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Joseph Von Sternberg, w … more →

Tags: Film Review, 1934, USA, dietrich

Ayn Rand's House

Sarah Couto wrote 5 months ago: Frank O’Connor and Ayn Rand. Interior of the Von Sternberg house As a client, what was Ayn Ran … more →

Tags: Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Richard Neutra, house, Frank Lloyd Wright

Institute Benjamenta (1995)

chaplin wrote 7 months ago: INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA  or This Dream People Call Human Life Gottfried John / Alice Krige / Mark Rylan … more →

Tags: BRITISH: MODERN, European, Alice Krige, Animation, Diary of a lost girl, dietrich, eastern european, Gottfried John, institute benjamenta

Intertitle of the Week: Big in Japan — 28 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: I’m excited about watching Ozu’s DRAGNET GIRL because it’s an unusual subject for … more →

Tags: film, Ozu, The Dragnet, Dragnet Girl

Film Directors with their Shirts Off, Again — 22 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Number five (5) in an occasional series. Lina Wertmuller with everything off. Photo by Guido Harari. … more →

Tags: film, anita loos, Lina Wertmüller, Seven Beauties, claude lanzmann

The name of this blog is Shadowplay — 9 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Frank Borzage: master of the shadows. This, the opening of MOONRISE, is what turned me on to F.B. Th … more →

Tags: film, Orson Welles, macbeth, Frank Borzage, Moonrise, John Ford, Republic Pictures

Hand-Puppets Across the Water — 5 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Aloysius T. Cracklepuss. From my puppet-making phase. Or, to be more accurate, my phase as the Frank … more →

Tags: film, David Cairns, frankenstein, marlene dietrich, marlon brando, Richard Stanley, michael hutchence, The Young Lions, The Island of Dr. Moreau

Two Wongs — 9 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: “Punning on Chinese names is a low form of wit.” ~ Clive James (writer, broadcaster and … more →

Tags: film, Literature, Buster Crabbe, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Florey, Charles Bickford, Louise Brooks, Flash Gordon, Museum of the Moving Image

What a Shocker! — 3 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Warning: this post contains what the MPAA calls pervasive language. The mystery film from which the … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, Television, Bela Lugosi, King Kong, Harald Reinl, The Thousand Eyes of Doctor Mabuse, Robert Mitchum

fernanda solórzano :·: guilty pleasures — 34 comments

gabriel lv wrote 1 year ago: aprovechando el comentario que dejó en la crónica de mauro sobre los óscares, los que hacemos cinéc … more →

Tags: Guilty Pleasures, Billy Wilder, seidelman, Brian De Palma, mankiewicz, William Wyler

Disc Drive — 8 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago:   Regular Shadowplayer Jenny wrote this in our Comments section:  ‘This is off-topic but I wan … more →

Tags: film, Kobayashi, Clouzot, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Preminger, La Prisonniere, Kurosawa, The Case of Lena Smith

Euphoria #18: Did you ever happen to hear...? — 13 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Marlene Dietrich’s Hot Voodoo number from Josef Von Sternberg’s BLONDE VENUS, suggested … more →

Tags: film, Music, Literature, theatre, ophuls, The Third Man, Carol Reed, welles, Blonde Venus


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