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In short, this film is about the rise and fall of Lulu, an a-moral and a somewhat naive young woman. Her carefree and erotic appearance has a lustful and destructive effect on everyone who comes in her neighborhood. I spent two hours and twelve minutes watching the fantastic performances of all actors and actresses involved in this production. Louise Brooks, in the role of Lulu, acts very naturally. A reviewer said, when the film came out, the emotions were sometimes difficult to read from her face. Also, all other actors and actresses stay away from the big gestures that were so common in the silent movie period. Only Fritz Kortner's death scene is somewhat over the top.  Louise Brooks en Fritz Kortner Lulu has a great appeal to me. That's not just because she's very pretty, that too, but mostly, I dare to say it's because she lives the way she wants it, regardless of what others think of her or what effect she has on others. She is self-centered and manipu

This first adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book is about an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon area where still dinosaurs live. The purpose of the trip is to save a researcher and to provide proof of living dinos. The original of this 104-minute movie seemed to have been lost for a long time and there was only a 50-minute version of the film in circulation. But recently, a version of 94 minutes has been found and restored and I'm discussing this version here. In 1925, the year of the appearance of this film, the mass of education came up. For the first time in history, education was offered to a wide audience. Never in history have so many people been able to read and write and newspapers were as important as mass media. Between 1870 and 1925 many dinosaur fossils were discovered which unleashed a new rage; Everyone wanted to know everything about it. Combine that with Darwin's evolutionary theory becoming ever more familiar and you have the basic ingredien

 James Mason A wounded Irish nationalist leader tries to evade the police after a robbery gone wrong. Carol Reed This is in a nutshell the story of this movie from 1947 by director Carol Reed. Reed is famous for his excellent novel films. With a very precise eye for detail and atmosphere, Reed knows exactly how to transform the heart of the novel to the big screen. 'Odd man out', a book by F.L. Green, is no exception. Reed not only directed this film, but also did the production which enabled him to keep the entire creative process in his own hand. For example, he demanded that the many out door scenes in the Belfast's alleys and streets should be as realistic as possible. Thus, projection screens with actors in front of them weren’t used. They filmed in real streets or in the reconstructed streets of the Denham studios. Robert Krasker As a cameraman, Reed took on the renowned Robert Krasker, who had just made Letter Encounter for David Lean. He stated in

Critic Mortimer Brewster finds out on his wedding day that his beloved aunts have killed a number of older men and that madness runs in his family. This is a film based on a play by Joseph Kesselring, and is filmed twice. The first movie that was made of it was shown into cinemas in 1944. This film was directed by Frank Capra with Cary Grant, Prescilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey and Peter Lorre in the lead. In 1969 a remake was made for television with Bob Crane, Sue Lyon, Helen Hayes and Lillian Gish in the lead. I will discuss both in this review. When Capra began recording in 1941, the play is a big hit on Broadway. To not interfere with the success of the play, Warner Bros., with the producers of the play, decided that the movie will not be featured in the cinema before it ran out on Broadway. Thus it came to pass that the first performance, for the troops overseas, was shown in 1943. The following year the film was screened in the cinemas. The film i

In 'The Patsy' of 1928, the awkward Pat falls in love with the boyfriend of her sister Grace, who is the favorite of their mother. Grace is all that Pat is not, she can get any man she wants and always gets what she wants. If Grace's friend Pat does not even notices, she decides she needs to develop more personality. If she wants to practice some things she has read in books, her family thinks she has gone craz I have to say that this is the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. Marion Davies, who plays Pat, is a born comedy actress. Anyone who claims that women are not funny will, after seeing this movie, change their mind. The highlight of the film is her imitation of Mae Murray, Lillian Gish and Pola Negri. Veriety wrote on April 25, 1928, that the audience spontaneously applauded when she made her Gish imitation. I must honestly admit that, after seeing this, I can never look at Lillian Gish in the same way, so striking and funny is this imitation. But