Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the romantic frenzy of this tragedy, whose faults are far more obvious in synopsis than in cinematic entirety, The Last Command is indubitably a powerful film. Clumsy-faced, blacksmith-muscled, thick-fingered Emil Jannings, the thoroughly unhandsome hero, is the most finished, the most subtle cinemactor in the U.S. He does everything slowly; smiles break across his face like a gradual sunrise, his sorrows have accumulated intensity. In this picture, he is ably supported by lords, soldiers, peasants, and most notably by Evelyn Brent who is the heroine...
...Tsar before he appeared upon the screen. He was a member of famed Max Reinhardt's theatrical troupe, played Shakespearean repertory as now presented in Manhattan. He was persuaded to appear in the cinema by famed director Ernst Lubitsch, a onetime stock-company companion, then with a German film company. He has since pleased with performances in Faust, The Way of All Flesh, Variety...
First the book, then the play, and now the movie has emphasized the fact that "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" until the public is almost convinced. However, there is not much doubt but what the film at the Metropolitan this week, despite the charms of Ruth Taylor, is less satisfactory than its successors...
...choicest bits of the film is the episode at the wheel which the hero neglects at an inopportune moment to take the enticing Miss Ralston in his manly arms...
...result of the recent agreement with the Pathe Exchange Film Company to use a certain number of motion picture films for the purpose of illustrative instruction in its courses the Department of Anthropology has made known the three most important types of films that will be produced, on the subject of school geography. It is the opinion of the division that the scientific knowledge of its staff can be devoted with profit to the tasks of developing the subjects of human evolution and the building of civilization by means of films not only for adult students but equally for children...