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THE GREAT DIRECTOR’S CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #51 - The Films of JOSEF VON STERNBERG
THE GREAT DIRECTOR’S CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #51 - The Films of JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Rank ‘em, rate ‘em, review ‘em or whatever.
JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Jet Pilot (1957)
Anatahan (1954)
Macao (1952)
The Town (1944)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Sergeant Madden (1939)
I, Claudius (1937)
The King Steps Out (1936)
Crime and Punishment (1935/I)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
An American Tragedy (1931)
Dishonored (1931)
Morocco (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Thunderbolt (1929)
The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
The Docks of New York (1928)
The Dragnet (1928)
The Last Command (1928)
Underworld (1927)
A Woman of the Sea (1926)
The Salvation Hunters (1925)
The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, The Mummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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05-28-2005, 09:29 AM
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The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, The Mummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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05-28-2005, 10:01 AM
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JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Seen: 3
Like: 0
Own: 0
Rank order:
Shanghai Express (1932)
Morocco (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
The Lakers may have sucked this year, but at least they didn't suck as much as the Spurs.
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05-28-2005, 11:02 AM
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*1. The Blue Angel - A (all-time top 15)
*2. The Scarlet Empress - A-
*3. The Devil is a Woman - B+
*4. Blonde Venus - B+
5. Shanghai Express - B+
*6. Morocco - B
Own: 5
Would like to see just about everything, but in particular Docks of New York.
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. - George Bailey
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 312 Last Watched: The Life of Oharu
Last 10 Films Watched:
Ace in the Hole - B+ / Tokyo Twilight - B
Early Spring - B+ / Witness for the Prosecution - B
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+
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05-28-2005, 11:33 AM
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Jet Pilot (1957)
Anatahan (1954)
Macao (1952)
The Town (1944)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Sergeant Madden (1939)
I, Claudius (1937)
The King Steps Out (1936)
Crime and Punishment (1935/I)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
An American Tragedy (1931)
Dishonored (1931)
Morocco (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Thunderbolt (1929)
The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
The Docks of New York (1928)*
The Dragnet (1928)
The Last Command (1928)
Underworld (1927)
A Woman of the Sea (1926)
The Salvation Hunters (1925)
Bolded films I've seen.
* Seen part of it; may have seen Macao.
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05-28-2005, 11:38 AM
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Jet Pilot (1957) 
Anatahan (1954)
Macao (1952)
The Town (1944)
The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
Sergeant Madden (1939)
I, Claudius (1937)
The King Steps Out (1936)
Crime and Punishment (1935/I)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
The Scarlet Empress (1934) (Own the DVD)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)
An American Tragedy (1931)
Dishonored (1931)
Morocco (1930)
The Blue Angel (1930)(American version)
The Blue Angel (1930)(German version)
Thunderbolt (1929)
The Case of Lena Smith (1929)
The Docks of New York (1928)
The Dragnet (1928)
The Last Command (1928)
Underworld (1927)
A Woman of the Sea (1926)
The Salvation Hunters (1925)
Seen 8
Own 1
My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Tokyo Story (1953,Yasujiro Ozu) 5/5, Tokyo-Ga (1985,Wim Wenders) 3/5, The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965,Zbynek Brynych) 1/5, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987,Kazuo Hara) 5/5, Searching for Debra Winger (2002,Rosanna Arquette) 2/5, I for India (2005,Sandhya Suri) 3/5, Vacancy (2007,Nimród Antal) 3/5, Lady Chatterley (2006,Pascale Ferran) 5/5, The Prefab People (1982,Béla Tarr) 2/5, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984,W.D. Richter) 2/5, 20 Centimeters (2005,Ramón Salazar) 3/5, Early Summer (1951,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Late Spring (1949,Yasujiro Ozu) 5/5, A Story of Floating Weeds (1934,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5, Passing Fancy (1933,Yasujiro Ozu) 3/5
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06-08-2005, 05:19 AM
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06-12-2005, 08:27 AM
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In order of merit:
1. The Scarlet Empress (1934) ****
2. The Blue Angel (1930) ****
3. Shanghai Express (1932) ***1/2
4. Morocco (1930) ***1/2
5. The Last Command (1928) ***1/2
6. Anatahan (1954) ***1/2
7. The Devil Is a Woman (1935) ***
8. Dishonored (1931) ***
9. Blonde Venus (1932) ***
10.The Shanghai Gesture (1941) ***
11.Macao (1952) **1/2
12.Jet Pilot (1957) **
I'm shocked to see some of the ratings given to the films of one of my favorites; anyway, it pains me to have just 1 DVD of his in my collection - THE BLUE ANGEL - and it's a pity that the Criterion DVD of THE SCARLET EMPRESS is sub-par and that their SHANGHAI EXPRESS edition seems to have fallen through.
I'm interested in watching everything he's done but especially THE SALVATION HUNTERS (1925), THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (1928), THUNDERBOLT (1929), AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1931) and CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935).
Brook, THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN is a very good and fascinating film in its own right but, in the long run, THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (1977) is the greater film of the two. On the other hand, though, I'd have to say that I prefer Renoir's DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID (1946) to Bunuel's 1964 version.
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04-15-2006, 07:45 AM
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The Collection (Blu-Ray High Definition/DVD)
Pre-orders - BLU-RAY: Adventures of Robin Hood, Beowulf, Cool Hand Luke, Dark City, The Doors, Dr No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love, The Godfather Collection, How the West Was Won, The Hunt for Red October, Iron Man, Kill Bill 1 & 2, LA Confidential, Live and Let Die, The Mist, The Mummy, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pale Rider, The Sixth Sense, Starship Troopers, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Thunderball, Transformers DVD: Icons of Horror: The Hammer Collection, Popeye the Sailor Vol #3, Road House, Rodan/War of the Gargantuas, Warner Gangster Collection Vol #4
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07-05-2006, 01:14 AM
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Re: THE GREAT DIRECTOR’S CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #51 - The Films of JOSEF VON STERNBERG
Updated:
The Devil is a Woman - B+
Blonde Venus - B+
Morocco - B
I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. - George Bailey
2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 312 Last Watched: The Life of Oharu
Last 10 Films Watched:
Ace in the Hole - B+ / Tokyo Twilight - B
Early Spring - B+ / Witness for the Prosecution - B
There Was a Father - A- / The Battle of the River Plate - B
In Bruges - B / My Blueberry Nights - C+
WALL*E - A- / Presto - B+
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