Silents Please: Shadows, Silence and Sternberg
3 Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg (Criterion) Josef von Sternberg is the great stylist of the thirties, a Hollywood maverick with a taste for visual exoticism and baroque flourishes (which prompted David Thomson to dub him “the first poet of underground cinema”). That’s the cliché, anyway, based largely on his collaborations with Marlene Dietrich, [...]
