Da Vinci Sternberg
Daniel KasmanCorkscrewing two images: a Florentine mural potentially hiding a Da Vinci; and a Russian icon, definitely hiding Marlene Dietrich.
Josef von Sternberg
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Daily Briefing. Hong Sang-soo, Claude Lanzmann, Josef von Sternberg, Pierre Étaix…
David HudsonFine new issue of the Brooklyn Rail, a sprawling list, news and more.
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Daily Briefing. Straub-Huillet and More on DVD and Blu-ray
David HudsonAlso: Elizabeth Taylor, accidental feminist? And John Malkovich revisits Les liaisons dangereuses.
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New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 3
Daniel KasmanPart three of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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Daniel KasmanA video essay on Josef von Sternberg’s Dishonored.
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Tuesday Foreign Region DVD Report: "Shanghai Express" (Josef von Sternberg,1932)
Glenn KennyA couple of weeks ago, trying to encapsulate the appeal of Dario Argento's Inferno, I quoted Martin Scorsese on Mario Bava: "I...like Bava's films very much: hardly any story, just atmosphere, with all
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DVDs. Josef von Sternberg and the Rest
David Hudson"Criterion's new box set of three silent films by Josef von Sternberg — Underworld (1927), The Last Command (1928) and The Docks of New York (1928) — is self-evidently one of the most important releases
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For The Icon, The Shadow, and The Glimmer Between: 3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg
Daniel KasmanAbove: Betty Compson and George Bancroft in Josef von Sternberg's The Docks of New York (1928). Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. George Bancroft, that clay lump of an actor, is not Marlene Dietrich;
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Video Sundays. Cabaret Cinema
Daniel KasmanFour clips from the cinema of cabaret: Chabrol, Godard, Sternerg, Sirk.
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DVDs. Pialat, von Sternberg, Laloux, More
David HudsonIn the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes that Maurice Pialat's first feature film, L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood, 1968), "out on DVD this week from the Criterion Collection, can be seen as a companion
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The Forgotten: One Way Street
David CairnsJosef von Sternberg's Thunderbolt (1929), his first talkie, is perhaps not so much forgotten as simply hard to see, which means it lives on in the minds of film lovers but in abstracted form, since so
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Shanghai Gesture" (von Sternberg, 1941)
Glenn KennyRobert Benayoun, in his essay "Zaroff, or, The Prosperities of Vice:""Authentic sadistic cinema is not that which, through a vulgar display of brutality solicits the sadism of the spectator. It is a