boy culture (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Find the other parts here.Marlene DietrichBorn: December 27, 1901, Schoneberg-Berlin, GermanyDied: May 6, 1992 Marie Magdalene "Leni" Dietrich ("Marlene" was a nickname she had taken on by age 11) was born the second daughter of a middle-class family in Berlin....
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
A nearly forgotten film about American Indians as they try to make their way in L.A. opens a new season at the Detroit Film Theatre on the weekend of Sept. 19-21.
Supposed Aura (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
[Images from The Straits of Love and Hate ( Aien kyo , Kenji Mizoguchi, 1937) and The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928).]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Simon Louvish's elegantly exhaustive study of Cecil Blount DeMille (1881-1959) examines the actors life largely though through his 70 movies, completed during a 42-year career.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
SIFF's second week features 180 film programs.
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
This seems to be the week for watching lighthearted Robert Mitchum action movies. Earlier this week it was THE BIG STEAL (1949), and the latest title seen is MACAO, costarring Jane Russell. Russell and Mitchum also appeared together in 1951's memorable HIS KIND OF WOMAN , and they make an equally good team in MACAO. The plot concerns an undercover policeman (who may or may not be Mitchum's character),...
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Sleep deprivation is part of every festival, and I'm starting to hit the wall here at Ebertfest . This entry is going to have to be short and sweet. -Skipped the morning panel to grab an extra hour of sleep and hopefully obtain a good spot in line for getting preferred seats in theater for myself and friends. - SHOTGUN STORIES : David Gordon Green lent his name as a producer to give an assist to fellow...
litpark (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
(interviewed by L.A. Weekly’s Anthony Miller) Steve Erickson’s gorgeously discombobulating novels can only truly be mapped against and according to the enigmatic chronological and cartographic coordinates they provide. His writing delves deeply into questions about the permeability of the boundaries between reality and dreams, how history might begin in dreams and how dreams can constitute [...]
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
Cinematheque Ontario devotes next five weeks to Josef von Sternberg, Hollywood's Depression-era connoisseur of ecstasy and humiliation
PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
There are some great upcoming lectures that are part of the Art Institute of Chicago's American Perspectives series. Lectures worth noting.... April 3rd, 2008 at 6pm (free) - Thomas Hines: The Other Hollywood--Modern Architecture and the LA Film Community The prevailing taste in Hollywood, despite popular myth, was not all kitsch and glitz. Certain actors, writers, directors, and producers were sophisticated...
Limitless Cinema (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
This is my comment in A Trick of Light's blog: http://atrickofthelight.wordpress.com/ PRATER is in Chrissie Iles’ favorite film list of 2007 in the magazine ARTFORUM, December 2007. Here is what Iles said about PRATER in the magazine: “The story of the PRATER, the oldest amusement park in the world, known as the “desire machine,” told in a dreamlike sequence of surreal illusions, through the eyes of,...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
A wandering American in the Far East falls for a singer and helps a detective trap a killer. CAST: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Philip Ahn DIR: Josef Von Sternberg
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Jean-Luc Godard adored it, Pauline Kael despised it and MGM was so threatened by its success that they offered not one but two Greta Garbo films to answer it. Yet, for all of its power, Dishonored , the third collaboration from the legendary team of Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich has hardly been seen by an entire generation due to Universal's shameful mishandling of the old Paramount titles...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Recently I realized that in the year or so since I started Moon In The Gutter I had failed to write about any film pre 1950 and I must admit, I was a little ashamed. So to rectify that, later this week I will be focusing on one of my favorite classic Hollywood films starring Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef Von Sternberg. Even though no less than Jean-Luc Godard called Dishonored (1931) one of...
Out of the Woods Now (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
People who say that all of the great books have already been written are just not paying attention. I picked up Steve Erickson 's Zeroville having never read anything of his before and with very little idea of what it was about. The Josef von Sternberg line that serves as the epigraph ("I believe that cinema was here from the beginning of the world") isn't merely some cute quotation, but an encapsulation...
