3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg - The Criterion Collection

Vienna-born, New York-raised Josef von Sternberg directed some of the most influential, extraordinarily stylish dramas ever to come out of ...

Underworld / Last Command / Docks of New York

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: How It Came to Be ] and the other by film scholar Tag Gallagher [ Von Sternberg Till ‘29 ] Swedish television interview from 1968 with director Josef von Sternberg PLUS: A ninety-six-page booklet featuring essays by Geoffrey O’Brien, Anton Kaes,... Ben Hecht’s original story for Underworld „As scholar Janet Bergstrom—our guest on February 8—has written, “Sternberg’s films cannot be appreciated—not really—unless they are projected onto the big screen. [They] move you toward an unexpected, imaginary world built up through detail, with orchestrated light and shadow, movements in and out of visibility. notes on the scores by the composers.

Weiter: Underworld / Last Command / Docks of New York

3 Silent Classics By Josef Von Sternberg - Criterion Collection ...

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The new boxed set from Criterion, 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg , picks up with Underworld and shows us the director's early development. " It's interesting to look at Josef von Sternberg's early filmography and see how many films he worked on without credit or was eventually fired from. Having spent some time earlier this year researching one of those projects, I was aware he had gone through some struggles between his scrappy independent debut, The Salvation Hunters , in 1925 and his first studio picture, Underworld , in 1927,... " From now on you are my prisoner of war. Then again, given how headstrong and defiantly individualistic his films were, I guess I shouldn't be surprised....

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