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Harry Alan Potamkin

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Cock of the Air (1932) “I am puzzled by the puerility of a field-general like Milestone, who uses his prestige and authority, his talent, to toss off rowdyisms stodgy and unprovocative.” – Close Up May 27, 2021 Full Review I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) 96% “For all its insufficiencies, I am a Fugitive is an advance in American film-content and to that extent its form is shaped.” – Close Up May 26, 2021 Full Review Drifters (1929) “Nor does the film achieve the simplest of processes: that of accumulative muscular impact.” – Close Up Jan 21, 2021 Full Review “Al Green's direction is flat, unvivacious; the photography as bad as the lowest of the usual Warner Brothers' work; the microphone badly adjusted to the voices; the child's acting so much sawdust-stuffing.” – Close Up Jan 21, 2021 Full Review With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) “With Byrd at the South Pole is not without interest, and merit, but an interest not special -- from the viewpoint of execution -- and a merit academic.” – Close Up Jan 21, 2021 Full Review Africa Speaks (1930) “The whole film reeks with Hail Columbia! picture bunkum.” – Close Up Jan 20, 2021 Full Review “The film with all its faults, induced by the shifting of photographic treatment and the double-narrative, is a very reputable debut.” – Close Up May 8, 2020 Full Review “It is about the worst film ever made, indicating absolutely no knowledge of the cinema, even the most elementary, on the part of the makers.” – Close Up May 8, 2020 Full Review “Post matures the animated cartoon as a form, vindicating the charge that Mickey Mouse is rudimentary and inarticulate.” – Close Up May 8, 2020 Full Review “The film is not simply a picture of warfare. The physical struggle is set amid the conflict of class-interests, giving it its full social import. The film, in brief, is inferential and reflective, at the same time it is muscular in its battle-scenes.” – Close Up May 8, 2020 Full Review “A direct invitation to murder Soviet officials.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Stolen Heaven (1931) “Off they go the land of dreams on their 20,000 bucks, and we never are told they are anything but respectable, true to the Hays code, the evangelical bible of the movie.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Bed and Sofa (1927) “Room's social comedy is Russia laughing at herself, letting a tickle out of her new morality.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review “There is another Russian film which must not be neglected: In Old Siberia. It is not the best, but it is one of the most sensitive, and also lacking in arrogance --which is a proof of Russia's adulthood.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review “The chief significance of A Son of the Land is its proof that the process of the Soviet film is a lively one, seldom deteriorating to beneath its norm, but collecting more and more strength -- producing numerous new talents -- as it moves.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 98% “[Jeanne d'Arc] is an historical film, but not a costume film; an historical film that is contemporaneous in its universal references. [It] is a religious film, but not a sanctimonious film. Life, it urges, is transcendent. It is a transcendent film.” – National Board of Review Magazine Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Applause (1929) 80% “The two major faults of Mamoulian's film are: there is no sustained rhythmic structure, and there is no sense of speech as abstracted sound.” – Close Up Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Salt for Svanetia (1929) 100% “Kalatazov has established his point-of-view at once in the bold image and stern grand angles. The film, in these, is related to Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, but being a film of immediate pathos, [the film] is a structure of greater liquidity.” – Close Up Mar 26, 2020 Full Review The Millionaire (1931) “The movie is a ritual that purges everything it touches -- purges everything of veracity and sense.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Skippy (1931) 86% “Redemption is the keynote of every American film. Bourgeois society is a coupon. Skippy puts its bid across through the popularity of young children as players.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Eliso (1928) “This Russian film is assuredly not a great one, but it is a compelling one.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review The New Babylon (1929) “The problems and their tangents provoked by The New Babylon could fill a book. That is contribution enough. I urge everyone to examine this detaining film for himself.” – The New Masses Mar 26, 2020 Full Review Road to Life (1931) “This, remember, is the first Soviet talkie; Potemkin was not the first Soviet film. And yet Road to Life is for the talkie what Potemkin was, in part, for the mute film -- the fulfillment of a first period.” – National Board of Review Magazine Mar 25, 2020 Full Review The Silent Enemy (1930) “I can think of nothing good to say for this production, unless it be the initiative of the group that made it. The film was made independently by people who had nothing better to do and did that badly.” – The New Masses Mar 25, 2020 Full Review Abraham Lincoln (1930) 75% “The fact that it draws tears is rather against it than for it. The pathos of a tremendous social occurrence should not be refined or lachrymose, but revealing. The social occurrence seldom gets a chance here.” – The New Masses Mar 25, 2020 Full Review
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