Josef von Sternberg
Dishonored may not be the most entertaining film in the von Sternberg-Dietrich cycle, but it is the most thoughtful and stealthily affecting.
With just her voice and her eyes, Marlene Dietrich lays bare Lola’s body and heart in The Blue Angel – and we fall under her spell.
Shawn Glinis takes a look at the recent home video releases of Pledge Night (1990), The Set-Up (1949) and 3 silent classics by Josef von Sternberg
A new Dietrich & Von Sternberg box set, Abel Ferrara’s debut 9 Lives Of A Wet Pussy and Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come – we cover them in this week’s Video Dispatches.
Morocco is an early Pre-Code romantic drama starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, two eventual stars that came to epitomize Hollywood.
