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Studioets historie gjenspeiler filmhistorien på en dramatisk måte: Her ble den tyske filmen skapt, av filmskapere som Fritz Lang, Wilhelm Murnau og Josef von Sternberg, og her ble den ødelagt av naziveldet og det påfølgende DDR-regimet. Nazistene og...
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The memories grow more distant every second. There's a reason Martin Scorsese wanted to make "Hugo," which among other things is a lavishly mounted argument for film preservation. That first year at the Academy Awards, Emil Jannings won best actor for...
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Movie audiences crave these idealistic, sexy trysts. Here's a look at some of the best films in the romantic travel genre: In 1932, hearts beat a little faster with Josef von Sternberg's lush romance "Shanghai Express," set in 1931 during the Chinese...
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When the revolution of 1848 crops up, it only serves to make the Austrians look more reassuringly American (“Now we have freedom of speech and a constitution!”), while a virtuoso musical montage sequence set to “The Blue Danube” (an uncredited Josef...
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Watch: Marlene Dietrich's Screen Test for the Golden Age Classic 'The Blue Angel'...
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In 1929, Josef von Sternberg began assembling the cast for the first major German sound film – Der blaue Engel, otherwise known as The Blue Angel. (Watch the English version online here.) A classic of Weimar cinema, the film featured Marlene Dietrich...
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He was a penniless Ukrainian artist who fled the Russian revolution in 1917 and financed his decade at The Lancaster by presenting pictures in lieu of payment. All suites have MP3 docks and DVD players but only the Marlene Suite has all her Josef von...
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In Act i, Scene 5 of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, bloodthirsty for her more weak-willed husband to kill Duncan and take the crown, calls out in a private moment: Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown...
About Josef von Sternberg
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Josef von Sternberg aka Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894, Vienna, Austria – 22 December 1969, Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of auteur filmmakers, and performed many other duties on his films besides directing, including cinematographer, writer, and editor. Sternberg's style has... Full Article
