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The Blue Angel (1930) More at IMDbPro »Der blaue Engel (original title)
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Philip Madoc obituary
6 March 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Actor with a flair for transformation, from Doctor Who aliens and the Dad's Army U-boat captain to Lloyd George and King Lear
The actor Philip Madoc, who has died aged 77 after a short illness, became one of Wales's best-known faces through playing villains and officers on television for half a century. His rich, sonorous voice was heard to marvellous effect when he took the role of King Lear in a 2007 BBC radio broadcast: it was as ideal for Shakespeare as it was for light comedy or reciting the prose of Dylan Thomas, at which he was masterly.
His television work brought him four different roles in Doctor Who, but he really made his name as the vicious Huron warrior Magua in the 1971 BBC series The Last of the Mohicans. He swaggered dangerously, semi-naked, in dark body make-up, and a shaven hairstyle with Mohican brush that pre-empted punk by several years. »
- Michael Coveney
From the archive, 6 March 1960: Marlene Dietrich's wardrobe secrets
5 March 2012 3:24 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Originally published in the Observer on 6 March 1960: As part of a 'series in which women in various walks of life discuss their attitude to fashion', the screen star reveals her liking for jeans
The murmur in the quiet hotel bar froze. Quite suddenly, in a few silent strides, Marlene Dietrich was there.
She really is quite something. She was wearing a wild mink coat; a black Balenciaga dress embroidered, at the left breast, with the scarlet bar of the Légion d'honneur; a stiffened black tulle hat; white kid gloves; black patent leather pumps; and a black crocodile handbag. That's all. But the quality of her body gave the mink a luxury no advertiser could ever buy: the black dress was littler and subtler than volumes of Vogue could imply, and her single decoration was somehow more worldly and wicked than all the jewellery in Paris, London and New York put together. »
Weimarvellous events to run at this year's Gff
8 February 2012 8:13 AM, PST | eyeforfilm.co.uk | See recent eyeforfilm.co.uk news »
Events include a rare screening of The Blue Angel
With the Glasgow Film Festival now only a little over a week away, it has been announced that a series of events celebrating the best of Weimar cinema will take place over the first weekend of the festival.
Programmed by a team from the University of Edinburgh, in association with Cinema Spectacular, Weimarevllous will feature a mix of screenings, live events and experimentations in film exhibition and aims to »
- Robert Munro
Berlin Film Festival: a movie fans' guide
8 February 2012 2:37 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The 62nd Berlinale opens on Thursday. A mecca for film-lovers, the festival's screenings, talks, masterclasses and exhibitions are open to everyone. Here's how to make the most of them, and Berlin itself
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With more than 20 participating cinemas and venues screening 395 films and 200,000 tickets on sale, the Berlinale (which runs from 9-19 February) is Europe's most public and user-friendly film festival. Everyone is welcome to screenings, events, talks, lectures, masterclasses and exhibitions – and they are held mostly in English. Eighteen world premieres compete for the top Golden Bear prize, but the range of films and genres, from documentaries to experimental shorts, caters for every taste.
Festival venues
For essential Berlinale orientation, head to Potsdamer Platz, the festival's main hub. The main screening venues here are the CinemaxX (Potsdamer Strasse 5/entrance from Voxstrasse) and the Cinestar (Cinestar Event Cinema Berlin, »
The Forgotten: On the Hook
4 January 2012 8:31 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Stupéfiants (1932) is interesting in itself, to a moderate degree. It's even more interesting for the lives around it, but more of that later.
Yes, the title literally means "stupefiers," and it's a drug drama, a French-German co-production delivering German thriller entertainment with a Gallic lightness of touch. The hero, Jean Murat, is the kind of energetic superman beloved of the German cinema of the era, with some of the agility that distinguished Roland Toutain in L'Herbier's crime romances of the period—one moment where he swings from a crane adds a welcome dash of Doug Fairbanks excitement to the proceedings: one watches keenly for the rest of the movie in case he repeats it, but sadly he doesn't.
Murat's sister has become addicted to drugs, and Murat embarks on his adventures first to save her, then to avenge her. Along the way, the movie delivers some surprisingly accurate behavior from the addict, »
Rin Tin Tin the First Actual Best Actor Academy Award Winner? Think Again
3 January 2012 7:05 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Author Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief became — more or less — director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's all but unwatchable Adaptation (Meryl Streep played Orlean), has another book out, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, published last September. Today, Deadline's Mike Fleming wrote a piece in which he explains that Orlean "discovered that the true Best Actor winner in the first Oscars in 1929 was the German Shepherd, not the German silent film actor Emil Jannings, who walked away with the prize." A quote from Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend found in The Hollywood Reporter reads: "According to Hollywood legend, Rinty received the most votes for best actor. But members of the Academy, anxious to establish the awards were serious and important, decided that giving an Oscar to a dog did not serve that end." I haven't read Orlean's book, so »
- Andre Soares
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