McLaglen does NST pretty well, that was the one thing I took away from Gunga Din.
i'll have a double feature with girl from the marsh croft! (i've seen the sjostrom too)I saw it some years ago and recall it being better than expected, but still not really something I'd recommend.
I'm not much for Taylor in general, but he can be really effective when cast as someone vapid or, well, blind to events around him. I don't necessarily mean Taylor himself is vapid, just that the emotional range he tends to exhibit is pretty basic, moving from genial to stern or confused, but without much sense of a lived history behind anything. He reads as if he exists in the moment without much sense of depth to his characters, which is pretty much what Magnificent Obsession needs for most of the movie.irene dunne has grown into a favorite and, while robert taylor isn't likely to, this role suits him. i want to compare imitation of life too (stahl's was nominated for best picture!).
Yeah, def. not something worth writing home about, but it might interest a few people who'd like to know a bit about James Whale, and I've sometimes enjoyed throwing in a biopic or a doco of/on a Hollywood figure in my viewing schedule as an accompaniment/bonus-feature to a real film they were in, or worked on, as in these year-polls.
I've been looking for this version for YEARS to no avail!!
The film's distribution was stopped by the Production company, July 1935, as the Reich's Railway Service was upset with the emphasis given to the history of railways (namely, French and British inventors), and aesthetic options - fast rhythm, superimposed images, and one spinning-wheel camera effect judged detrimental to railway customers; parallel of the Engineer's love for the machine and the sexual act, after a scene in which the pieces of equipment are detailed in terms of the human body. Despite Leni Riefenstahl, who liked the film very much, convinced Joseph Goebbels to view the film in a private screening, in October 1935, the Reich's Minister for Propaganda did not change the ban, writing in his diary that it was a bad film, which had caused too much stir.
Leni Riefenstahl discovered Zielke's talents watching "Das Stahltier" and hired him for her Olympia-project. Zielke was not favored by the Nazis, "Das Stahltier" was never shown in the cinemas - and he also had problems working together with Riefenstahl. In 1937 he was brought into a sanatorium and sterilized. In 1942 Riefenstahl needed a cameraman for "Tiefland" and made sure Zielke was set free again. Zielke recieved 5000 Deutsche Mark (about 2500 Euro) as a compensation for the forced sterilization in 1987 and died two years later.
it's on kg and so are you. ?
Resources!twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 5:09 pm
Me TOO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE HELP ME SEE THIS
thanks
thx sally ♥
Of the few I've seen so far, Scarlet Sails is my favorite, but that's as much for the story as the filmmaking since it is a fairy tale that denies the need for magic to achieve the desired end, suggesting fantasy itself is something of a bourgeois concept that is rendered irrelevant by social striving for betterment. It keeps the structure of the fairy tale, but makes the outcome one that is earned through purposeful effort following the right set of ideals instead of wish fulfillment alone.The opening montage makes me want to check out some of Ptushko's live-action works.
the character of alice's brother kills me every time. also the maid!pabs wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:29 am I watched Alice Adams last night and loved it. I don't agree with Thomson's criticism. I think she's a likeable character throughout, as her snooty-ness is wafer-thin and simply an obvious attempt to cover up her feelings of insecurity and social inferiority. Hedda Hopper as the arrogant Mrs Palmer, the snarling mother of Alice's nemesis, is great in a very brief scene pouring scorn on the whole Adams clan, as is the actor who plays her daughter, who it turns out is not a completely bad person herself, so quite a subtle performance there, too.
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That's the thing that sort of works against the larger arc of the movie for me, Walter is just so much more genuine and unconcerned about maintaining class boundaries from the beginning that it sets Alice's striving in something of a less complimentary light. Walter of course has his problems, the gambling debt that leads to embezzlement could be claimed as a like or worse sort of attempt to crash through class barriers, but gambling is a different sort of problem than that and Walter's ease with blacks he gambles with and lack of concern over niceties doesn't feel like he's all that concerned with class. The problems then are mostly shown as artificial ones created by Alice as even Virgil's boss shows values that work against a class based critique of the family's problems, suggesting they'd have been better off just staying as they were and not trying to improve their station. Alice seems not to really see the various elements all that clearly and her mother is shown as hopelessly misguided. That, as is common for Hollywood, makes women the problem as men better know their station and don't rock the boat.the character of alice's brother kills me every time
Seen it. Not a biopic of Whale, a foolish self-pitying puling fantasy that diminishes Whale into a pathetic old fossil who dies to help a young straight guy get his life together. Disliked it pretty thoroughly. Rubbish.
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