Von Sternberg silent movie, a trove of great early-cinema collaborators, @UCLA Film Archive 1
Dec
9
2021
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A double bill of early movies directed by Josef Von Sternburg is set to spool for an in-person audience in January, and it looks particularly luscious. One picture is the director’s final extant silent movie; the second, his first using sound. Set almost entirely in a seedy portside tavern where the doomed and desperate carouse, ...