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| The Sternberg Box; came today! | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Aug 26 2010, 02:31 PM Post #1 |
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It's early Christmas at the Panzer Palace. The Sternberg box has heaps of cool extras: six different scores, two per movie, including three by Robert Israel, two by the Alloys and one by Donald Soisin and Joanna Seaton; a visual essay by UCLA film prof Janet Bergstrom, and another by the dreaded debunker of directors, Tag Gallagher; a 1968 interview with Sternberg from Swedish TV, and a cool 96-page book including Ben Hecht's original story for Underworld (Howard Hawks also worked on that script uncredited, as anybody familiar with Rio Bravo might guess). These are not art films but highly entertaining studio pictures. You will swept up in at least two, Underworld and Docks, and forget they are silent. The Last Command is more in the prestige picture mold, and if you don't like Emil Jannings you might find it a tough slog. Jannings is the product of the German Expressionist tradition, and his performances tend to be weighty. Still, I've seen the picture three times, so how bad can it be? I know what I'm doing for the next few days: watching them all twice, plus the extras once. John Ford gets a rest. Whatever you do, don't watch the interview with Von Sternberg first. By 1968 he was a nasty, bitter old man, blaming the collapse of his career on everybody but himself. What really happened is that he got a swelled head and started making a fool of himself, never missing an opportunity to call himself an artist and express his disdain for the box office. Execs don't like people like that. Tell the truth, I don't like 'em much myself. |
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| The Batman | Aug 26 2010, 07:07 PM Post #2 |
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My set is on hold, awaiting my pick-up, looking forward to it. |
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