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Jewel Robbery (1932)
He stole her jewels -- but that wasn't all!
Filmmaker(s): William Dieterle
Romance
Comedy
Crime

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

07 Mar

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Sex, Drugs and Crime Powell is responsible for a huge element of our loves, the smoothness that has comic irony behind it. He invented it. There are a few of his movies that are essential viewing, but those are after the government thugs decided what...


Published March 7, 2023
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
The Frankenstein of the Orient!
Filmmaker(s): Charles Brabin
Adventure
Horror
Science Fiction

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

11 Dec

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Scientific Rape many times a movie can be worthwhile when it does no more than create and display a strange world. Almost always that's the case where the world is new and/or synthesised from previous abstract sources. "Metropolis" of five years earlier is often celebrated as...


Published December 11, 2024
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Freaks (1932)
Can a full grown woman truly love a midget?
Filmmaker(s): Tod Browning
Drama
Horror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

11 Dec

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Elephant Men older gems have to be watched with eyes on two levels. The first concerns the experience within the narrative. Projects that worked well in this regard when new often fade. Those that continue to work as the context changes get called "classics" as if...


Published December 11, 2024
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The Iron Man (1931)
A Pig Iron Jaw and a Mule Kick Got Him the Paper Crown.
Filmmaker(s): Tod Browning
Drama

Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis.

19 Jan

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No Cinderella you enter into a film, you are accepting a world. You are accepting whatever God and physics and mythology that the filmmaker has created. Within that world, wheels turn and things happen. All too often we think the movie is about those happenings. We...


Published January 19, 2024
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Perfect Day (1929)
Goodbye...
Filmmaker(s): James Parrott
Comedy

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.

24 Dec

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Not Perfect am in the midst of watching a lot of Laurel and Hardy shorts. I’m amazed at a few things. There are over a hundred. They all use the same gag philosophy, often the same gags. And they range from pretty darn funny to...


Published December 24, 2022
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Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Filmmaker(s): Lewis R. Foster
Comedy

Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.

16 May

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Destruction was the 25th short as a team. I’m only now dipping into Laurel and Hardy in a serious way, but the whole 20 year collaboration seems to be based on two things: the comedy of destruction, and a sort of flummoxed humiliation. We laugh at...


Published May 16, 2023
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Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Filmmaker(s): G.W. Pabst
Drama

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

11 Dec

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The Diary are two things about this that make it essential viewing. The first is obvious. Louise Brooks fills the camera like no one else in my experience. And like no one else probably could now that movies have filled out all the sensory space...


Published December 11, 2024
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Re Lear (1910)
Filmmaker(s): Gerolamo Lo Savio
Drama

Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

04 Mar

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<strong>Colour Only you have not seen this, it is a pantomime of a play with all the characters and plot of “Lear,” but wonderfully coloured. Just looking at the colouring is an adventure because they are so abstract, so unnaturally pure. But the sad...


Published March 4, 2023
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