Word: films
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...protect children from each other, provides no check on the degree of sophistication permissible to picayune cinemaddicts, still encourages lying. If a 5-year-old cinemaddict who has been waiting eagerly to see Jean Harlow in Suzy presents himself at a New York cinemansion box-office when that film is released next week, he may well be refused admittance unless he says he is over...
...Fury" an Excellent Film...
Easily the most arresting offering of the in-town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching...
...offering the first "intimate scenes and unposed glimpses of life in a convent." It has a great deal of tranquillity, but not overmuch dramatic significances. At the other end of the line we find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results...
...Wells' contribution to filmlandia, "Things to Come" has passed out of the first run stage, but it is a sufficiently interesting film to justify a short excursion into the provinces. It is to be found in town at the Uptown Theatre, along with Bette Davis in "The Golden Arrow," which is old Michael Arlen stuff and not worthy of Miss Davis' manifold charms and talents...