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By Russell B (167) on 09 Sep 2007

A sumptuous and stylish melodrama of remarkable achievement. Von Sternberg and Dietrich at their best. Very highly recommended indeed…

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By Kyle B (1,653) on 03 Sep 2007

Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich were one of the great director/actor combinations. This is their masterpiece. A stylistic triumph…

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By Eileen M (98) on 20 Aug 2007

Bizarre, glamorous, sexy, surreal. Raises anachronism to new artistic heights…

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By Matthew R (1,327) on 20 Aug 2007

Bizarre, glamorous, sexy, surreal. Raises anachronism to new artistic heights…

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By Emanuel D (14) on 09 Aug 2007

If you?re after subtlety, watch another movie. This one is as in your face as Scream. Josef von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich again…

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By Rômulo D (6) on 14 Jul 2007

Pre-code masterpiece. Joseph von Sternberg does it again…

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By Der S (4) on 14 Jul 2007

Relentless excursion into style. Wildly surreal in a classy way and awesomely insane. One of my all-time favorites…

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By Karen B (306) on 17 Jun 2007

This is one of the weird and wonderful movies made pre-code but they didn't even pretend that nudity had to do with religion…

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By Benjamin W (694) on 12 Jun 2007

The only other director to make such an extroadinary use of ceremony is Eisenstein in Ivan the Terrible…

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By Matt P (653) on 10 Jun 2007

One of the greatest collaborations in movie history, the five films Dietrich made with Von Sternberg…

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By Matt B (1,998) on 07 Jun 2007

Lushly glamorous and perfectly ludicrous, a great combination…

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By Linda K (209) on 25 Jan 2007

The power which Dietrich's character projects on screen feels so real that it could be haunting for a patriarchy society…

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By Brian P (1,844) on 10 Dec 2006

Not a very good movie. I wouldnt ever watch this movie again…

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By David T (1,513) on 09 Dec 2006

Filled with gargantuan sets that include hideous gargoyles and horrible statues of martyrs writhing in pain, this film is about as historically…

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By Demonic N (103) on 27 Jun 2006

This is the most beautifully and brilliantly textured black and white film I have ever seen…

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By Tony Rayns (36) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Feb 2006

The decor and costumes, and the mise-en-scéne that deploys them, have never been equaled for expressionist intensity…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 12 Jun 2005

It's a complex, poetic, fantastical, and truly great movie…

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By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 16 Aug 2003

A thrilling historical pageant, featuring one of the most mind-blowing mises-en-scenes ever created for a film, plus iconic performances by…

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By Jeremy Heilman (393) for MovieMartyr.com (391) on 05 Mar 2002

The filmmaking is invigorating, with some of the images standing out as originals to this day…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 12 Jun 2001

A dense, visually astounding portrait of a woman evolving from an innocent, inexperienced, and idealistic girl to a shrewd, calculating empress…

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