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Shanghal Express. Josef von Sternberg's 1932 masterpiece with Marlene Dietrich as a femme fatale caught up in the Chinese Civil War (circa 1912). CH.4...
...denies the gut reaction to Dietrich as femme fatale. The image of the cold-eyed castrator stands up, in fact, in only two of her films- The Bine Angel and The Devil is a Woman, the first and last movies, respectively, of her six-year association with Josef von Sternberg. In most of her work, Dietrich is notable mainly for her almost martial sense of loyalty to her man. She may flirt in Morocco with everything in trousers (and sometimes those in skirts, when she herself is wearing white-tie-and-tails), but in the end, she follows Gary Cooper...
...once a breeding ground for that special brand of New York basketball played by short, quick young men. Now the basketball players are at one end of the gym; at the other is the white-robed karate class arranged in five rows of six abreast. Black Belt Teacher Alex Sternberg stalks the rows, suddenly lashing out in instructive attempts to knock his students down. He is small and wiry; he wears sunglasses even in the gym, and they add a sinister quality to his sudden thrusts. He lunges twice, quickly: "Never forget, first to the body and then...
Such declarations have come to be expected from the Jewish Defense League, of which Sternberg is a member. The small paramilitary group-the organizational and in some ways cultural equivalent of the Black Panthers-has long since proved it does not mean to rest at rhetoric (TIME, July 4, 1969). Recently league members battled New York City police while besieging the Soviet Union's U.N. mission. Many other Jews strongly disapprove of its activities, and indeed of its very existence. Still, the new Jewish militancy, born in the enclaves of Brooklyn and Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...course will survey the development of the narrative film, emphasizing the relationship between film aesthetics and meaning. The films that will be shown represent a history of genre as much as of film itself (Comedies, musicals, and drama will be shown). Classics like Keaton's "The General" and Von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" will be shown along with more esoteric films such as G. W. Pabst's "Kameradshaft" and Carl Dreyer's "Day of Wrath." Students might question the complete absence of any New Wave films whatsoever and the presence of such films as Reed's "The Third...