Author Michael Koller

This essay was originally published in Cteq: Annotations on Film, no. 1 (1996), pp. 18-20, and appears here with a small number of minor changes. Any brief, general, introduction to Preston Sturges would tal...

Equinox Flower (1958 Japan 118mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Shochiku Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Ozu, Kogo Noda from the novel by Ton Satomi Phot: Yuharu Atsuta Ed: Yoshiyasu Hamamura Art Dir: Tatsuo Hamada Mus:...

Ernst Lubitsch’s meteoric German career spanned ten years, with him acting in about a dozen films before directing several dozen shorts and twelve features. The shorts Lubitsch featured in or directed were main...

This article was first published in Cinema Papers no. 102, December 1994, pp. 10-11. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author. Waterfall (Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, 1984) is a true film...

WARNING: This article divulges most of the film's major plot elements. "Don't step on it, it might be Lon Chaney." - A 1927 quip. As in any art form, the history of cinema contains many works that are, for...

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc/The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927 France 90 mins) Prod Co: Société Générale de Films Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer Scr: Dreyer, Joseph Delteil based on the original records of the tr...

Queen Kelly (1928 USA 96 mins) Prod Co: Gloria Swanson Pictures Corporation/United Artists Prod: Erich von Stroheim, Joseph P. Kennedy , Gloria Swanson Dir, Scr: Erich von Stroheim Phot: Paul Ivano, Gor...

The Joyless Street/Die Freudlose Gasse (1925 Germany 145 mins) Source: Munich Film Archive Prod Co: Sofar-Film Dir: G.W. Pabst Scr: Willy Haas, based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer Phot: Robert Lach, Curt...

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932 Germany 122 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Nero-Film Prod: Seymour Nebenzal Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang, from the novel by Norbert Jacques Phot: Fr...

Faust (1926 Germany 85 mins) Source: Murnau Stiftung/Transit Film Prod Co: UFA Prod: Erich Pommer Dir: F. W. Murnau Scr: Hans Kyser, based on the play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Phot: Carl Hoffmann Ed...

So This is Paris (1926 USA 66mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod, Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Scen: Hans Kraly, based on the play Reveillon (1872) by Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy Phot: John J. Mes...

I Don't Want to be a Man! (Ich Möchte Kein Mann Sein) (1918 Germany 48 mins @ 18fps) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Union Atelier Prod: Paul Davidson Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Scr: Hans Kräly, Lubitsch Phot: Theodo...