Word: sternberger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historical catalogues masquerading as critical history. The stories are fast and funny, the cast of characters incomparable: Brownlow discusses many people of whom we knew much too little -- Allan Dwan, Charles Rosher, Louise Brooks (who was I think the screen's most beautiful actress), Abel Gance, and Josef von Sternberg, to name a few. The many fascinating production stills are superbly reproduced, largely hitherto unanthologized, and consequently render the book an invaluable as well as significant reference
Turning to camera styles, those conflicts quickly established in a melodrama, for example, allow a director like Hitchcock to bare to an audience the senses and emotions of a character through cutting, just as romantic abstraction allow a Sternberg to light experimentally with a daring inconceivable in plainer films. Themes and preoccupations as serious as these would be substantially unbearable treated in the context of everyday life--all films would resemble Judgment At Nuremberg. And, just as Poe and Hawthorne made their statements through the heightened reality of romance, the master film-makers are invariably liberated by the specialized contexts...
...Hart), wears a tuxedo, goes to college, talks in TV commercial slogans. Bruce's friends are Harry (Nathan Taylor), who likes to screw girls, and Erica (Barbara Lanckton), who goes to bed with Harry and later slits her wrists when the world becomes incomprehensible. Intruding among them is Harry Sternberg (Jerry Winters), who is married, worth $15 million, and presumably Jewish. In other words, the playwright's conception of a non-conformist. Naturally, when Harvy starts talking about giving away his money in exchange for friendship, the others consider him a bit strange. Not until the white-suited attendants arrive...
...many simply got lost in the shuffle. A surprisingly large number of famous first films are missing in America: Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters, De Mille's The Squaw Man, Ford's first feature Straight Shooting and many of Griffith's earliest films, to name...
Stroheim's only sound film, Walking Down Broadway, was ripped apart by Fox, small pieces of it used in a later film entitled Hello Sister, also missing apparently. Similarly, Chaplin hired Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) to direct a film, The Sea-Gull, which Chaplin took home with him upon completion and never released. Chaplin never gave a reason for his capricious suppression of the film, and its existence now is doubtful...