Showing posts with label Thirties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thirties. Show all posts
Thursday, September 15, 2016

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939) A Film by Kenji Mizoguchi

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"On the back cover of their Blu-ray release of The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum , the Criterion Collection heralds the 1939 Kenji ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

History is Made at Night (1937) A Film by Frank Borzage

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Frank Borzage's History is Made at Night bounces around—no, jolts—between two diametrically opposed tonal/emotional realms treated to...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

The Front Page (1931) A Film by Lewis Milestone

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"Key to the 1930s newspaper comedy is the disjuncture between the hermetic bubble of the press room, where typists fire away at their...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Walk Cheerfully, That Night's Wife, and Dragnet Girl (1930-33) Films by Yasujiro Ozu

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"In 1930's That Night's Wife , Walk Cheerfully and 1933's Dragnet Girl , Hollywood genre films in general stick out like...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

An Evening With Vampyr (Dreyer/1932) and Steven Severin

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From the vantage point of a semi-jaded soon-to-be graduate of film school, Carl Dreyer's Vampyr embodies a film-school surrealist'...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Babies Again: Romance Games in It Happened One Night (Capra/1934) and The Awful Truth (McCarey/1937)

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“You know this is the first time in years I’ve ridden piggy back,” ponders Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) to Peter Warne (Clark Gable) ...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Bringing Up Baby (1938) A Film by Howard Hawks

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In Bringing Up Baby , Howard Hawks delights in introducing zany element after zany element, an accumulation of absurd details so overwhelmi...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Age of Gold (L'âge d'or) A Film by Luis Buñuel (1930)

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Age of Gold is an unparalleled early example of surrealist filmmaking, and indeed a landmark of cinema in general, in which Luis Buñuel c...