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Oran Schee is known for The Devil Is a Woman (1935).
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Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. In a café the older man details his encounters with the heart breaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade.
- Morocco
- Dishonored
- Shanghai Express
- Blonde Venus
- The Scarlet Empress
- The Devil Is A Woman
“There’s a hundred ways to die, brother... and I’m going to pick my own!” So boasts a cocksure Gary Cooper in 1930’s Morocco, the Hollywood premier of star Marlene Dietrich and Director Josef von Sternberg. Cooper, top billed as Foreign Legionnaire Tom Brown, foolishly believed himself to be the true star of the film; his co-star Dietrich merely “t...
In the spy thriller, Dishonored, von Sternberg continued to push Dietrich’s cold aloof qualities in tantalizing new ways. As the slippery Austrian spy X-27, she matches more than wits with a Russian colonel played by future John Ford favorite, Victor McLagen. Predating his Oscar win for 1936’s The Informant, this is McLagen as a dashing leading man...
The same year, we also got Shanghai Express, an eighty-two minute train ride across contemporary China rife with barely-comprehensible intrigue and a continuous barrage of ornately busy visuals. A passenger train complete with sliding glass doors and lavish interior is the dominant setting. China’s then-colonialist division justifies the array of d...
“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.” - Marlene Dietrich The increasingly obsessive eye of Josef von Sternberg wasn’t the only one behind the scenes with a fixation for Marlene Dietrich. Travis Banton, Paramount’s legendary costume designer of this era, also found a powerful muse in the actress. ...
The Scarlet Empress, then, promptly resets her back to girly mode, at least for a while. Von Sternberg’s great Grand Guignol period piece finds Dietrich as humble royalty (Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, to be precise), happily flouncing and trouncing through her home castle in Pomerania, Prussia. Then one day, a dashing envoy, Count Alexie (John...
If The Scarlet Empress is peak Dietrich/von Sternberg, 1935’s The Devil Is a Woman is the inevitable decline. Though the film itself remains a visual treasure trove, and is absolutely worthy of inclusion with the previous five, external and internal factors were piling up to nullify it by comparison, and, more broadly, bring this majestic chapter o...
Director: Josef Von Sternberg; Writers: Pierre Louys (novel), John Dos Passos (adaptation), David Hertz, Oran Schee; Watched it on the Criterion…
Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Kiss me … and I’ll break your heart! In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual ‘Pasqualito’ Costelar.
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