Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

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Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Criterion Collection (6Pc)
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Overview

Tasked by studio executives with finding the next great screen siren, visionary Hollywood director Josef von Sternberg joined forces with rising German actor Marlene Dietrich, kicking off what would become one of the most legendary partnerships in cinema history. Over the course of six films produced by Paramount in the (1930s, the pair refined their shared fantasy of pleasure, beauty, and excess. Dietrich's coolly transgressive mystique was a perfect match for the provocative roles von Sternberg cast her in-including a sultry chanteuse, a cunning spy, and the hedonistic Catherine the Great-and the filmmaker captured her allure with chiaroscuro lighting and opulent design, conjuring fever-dream visions of exotic settings from Morocco to Shanghai. Suffused with frank sexuality and worldly irony, these deliriously entertaining masterpieces are landmarks of cinematic artifice. Films in this set: Morocco (1930) Dishonored (1931) Shanghai Express (1932) Blonde Venus (1932) The Scarlet Empress (1934) The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

Product Details

Release Date: 07/03/2018
UPC: 0715515217019
Original Release: 1930
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 9:02:00
Sales rank: 9,768

Special Features

New 2k or 4k digital restoration of all six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks ; New Interviews with film scholars Janet Bergstrom and Homay King; Director Josef von Sternberg's son, Nicholas; Deutsche Kinemathek curator Silke Ronnenburg; and Costume Designer and historian Deborah Nadoolman Landis; New documentary about actor Marlene Dietrich's German origins, featuring film scholars Gerd Gemünden and NOah Isenberg; New documentary on Dietrich's status as a feminist icon, featuring flm scholars Mary Desjarden, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White; The Legonnaire and the Lady, a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Morocco, featuring Dietrich and actor Clark Gable ; New video essay by critics Cristina Alvarez Lopez and Adrian Martin; The Fashion Side of Hollywood, a 1935 publicity short featuring Dietrich and Costume Designer Travis Banton; Television interview from 1971 with Dietrich; "I'll It Isn't Pain," a song removed from The Devil Is a Woman; Plus: A book featuring essays by critics Imogen Sara Smith, Gary Giddins, and Farran Smith Nehme

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