Julia Lutz

Julia Lutz

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  • Footlight Parade
  • Justin de Marseille

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  • The Skull

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  • Gertie's Gasoline Glide

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  • Burning Up

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Gertie's Gasoline Glide

Gertie's Gasoline Glide

1916
★★ Watched

Gaby's admirers compete for her affections... when they're not wrangling with their motor vehicles.

Princess Tarakanova

Princess Tarakanova

1910
★★ Rewatched

A specimen of something... presumably stage traditions more closely related to opera or ballet than modern acting?

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Male and Female

Male and Female

1919
★★★½ Watched

The desert island sequences are underpinned by BDSM in Victorian fancy dress, seasoned with a touch of blasphemy. And then of course in the last reel de Mille pivots to upholding middle-class middle American virtues.

The Scarlet Empress

The Scarlet Empress

1934
★★★★★ Liked Watched

A fever dream of sex, violence, and grotesqueness. An impressionist sketch of infinite riches in a squalid little room.

If some Lubitsch comedies are operettas minus the singing, The Scarlet Empress is unsung grand opera: a vestigial plot and a purely nominal basis in history, serving as a pretext for a series of star turns of the highest order. It's demented, and as in the operatic world, I intend that as the highest praise possible. If I knew more about 20th century music, I would lament that someone didn't collaborate with von Sternberg to give this work the musical setting it deserves.

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