"...carried away by his re-creation of the past..." From von Sternberg's The Last Command Surrender (1927) represents the only American appearance of the famous Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine (né Mozzhukin,…
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Who was the last completely unself-conscious American exploitation filmmaker who was any good? As in, who turned out to be a genuine artist but couldn't really be said to have…
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Blood, that is. As in the above striking image from Claire Denis' 2001 Trouble Every Day. My friends at MSN Movies, impressed by the prodigious sticky-ick factor of Neil Marshall's…
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That thirty days had taught the punk a lesson. It had made him feel badly, costing Violet all that money. Every time she'd had enough saved to divorce the Old…
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Buster Keaton in College, 1927 "Much has been said about technique in films like Metropolis and Napoleon. No one ever talks about technique in films like College, and that is…
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Here's Herbert Marshall, in one of his last stands as a thoroughly dashing romantic lead, about to bound up a semi-circular flight of stairs in Ernst Lubitsch's sublime 1932 romantic…
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