Beyond Camp or the Politics of Persona: Josef von Sternberg’s The Scarlet Empress Peter H. Kemp March 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Marlene Dietrich was used as a camera subject instead of as a person. She’s photographed behind veils and fishnets, while dwarfs slither about and bells ring and everybody tries to look degenerate.” – Pauline...
The Docks of New York William “Bill” Blick March 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Miles of docks wait day and night for strange cargo – and stranger men”, reads the initial intertitle of Josef von Sternberg’s masterfully constructed late silent film The Docks of New York (1928). Sternberg u...
Shanghai Express Wheeler Winston Dixon February 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.” – Josef von Sternberg (1) Of all the delirious exoticisms created by Marlene Dietrich ...
The Last Command: Josef von Sternberg’s Life and Death of a Russian Extra Shari Kizirian February 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film In a profile of Josef von Sternberg for the New Yorker in March 1931, the year Americans got to see the English-language version of Der blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, 1930), the author begins where most writers d...
Before Dietrich: Sound Technique and Thunderbolt Tony Williams April 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Thunderbolt (1929 USA 94 mins) Prod Co: Josef von Sternberg/Famous Players-Lasky-Paramount Prod: B. P. Fineman Scr: Charles Furthman (dialogue Herman J. Mankiewicz), from a story by Jules and Charles Fur...
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, 1931) Tamara Tracz April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dishonored is one of the least discussed of the Sternberg-Dietrich cycle that began with The Blue Angel in 1930 and ended six films and five years later with The Devil is a Woman in 1935. In David A. Cook's A H...
The Epic That Never Was Robert Keser April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Epic that Never Was (1965 Britain 74 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: BBC Prod, Dir, Scr: Bill Duncalf Phot: Robert Kauffman Ed: Brian Keene Cast: Dirk Bogarde (narrator), John Armstrong, Eileen Corbett, Ro...
Underworld Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Underworld (1927 USA 81 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Hector Turnbull Dir: Josef von Sternberg Scr: Robert N. Lee, from Ben Hecht's story, adapted by Jules Furthman Phot: Bert Glennon Art ...
