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Paul Rotha

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Power (1934) “Here is no cross-section of the eighteenth century which might have been such grand material for movie. The film is founded on the superficial appearance of men and things, an approach that has never and can never achieve the level of greatness.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 12, 2021 Full Review Thunder Over Mexico (1933) “Can nothing be done to prevent the advertisement of a director's name in connection with a picture when he has withdrawn his hand?” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Anna and Elizabeth (1933) “This is primarily an acting film and does not enlarge our experience of cinema.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Sanders of the River (1936) 80% “It is important to remember that the multitudes of this country who see Africa in this film, are being encouraged to believe this fudge is real.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Little Friend (1934) “There is a solid honesty behind this film which, despite its many shortcomings, I commend to your notice.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review “The Arnold Fanck brigade of Alpine Endeavour has, I am sorry to say, suffered a landslide in Universal's new epic of the North.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review The Mayor of Hell (1933) “It is one of the most stimulating American films I have seen for months.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Poil de Carotte (1932) 100% “It has much which gives pleasure and much which is ridiculous; an odd mixture of the vices and virtues of cinema.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Deserter (1933) “Technically, the film is as uneven as the presentation of its theme. Moments of inspired direction and brilliant cutting are alternated with long passages of mediocre cinematics which do not seem the work of the same man.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review La Maternelle (1933) “This is in many ways an admirable film, most intelligently made, and played on all sides with a tenderness and sensibility that compel our respect.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Tugboat Annie (1933) “It is worth staying if only to see Beery's heroic exploit (I am not sure exactly what he does) which is very well staged.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review “As a director of imagination, Trenker is obviously unfamiliar with his job and is hardly more than amateurishly capable as the hero.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 4, 2021 Full Review Zoo in Budapest (1933) 100% “This is one of the best films to come from Hollywood this year.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review I Was a Spy (1933) “I raise my hat to Gaumont for attempting a film of serious stature, but replace it when I see the spirit in which the deed is done.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review The Scarlet Empress (1934) 86% “This glamorous, sadistic fabrication appears one long procession of derivative ideas.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review Blood Money (1933) 80% “The high-spot climax... is in the true Griffith tradition and as old as cinema itself, but because of its grand cutting and use of sound, gets across on a modern audience better than anything else of its kind that I have seen this year.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review Queen Christina (1933) 81% “[Garbo] contrives, though Heaven knows how, to surpass all the badness they thrust upon her.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review Eskimo (1933) “Better than the usual run of adapted plays.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review Catherine the Great (1934) 57% “It is polished; it is artificial; and it is theatrical in treatment. But if you are tolerantly disposed towards romantic costume pictures, the insignificance of all this pomp and petulance will not arise to disturb your entertainment.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 3, 2021 Full Review Crime Without Passion (1934) 100% “[Crime Without Passion] presents the Hecht-MacArthur writing team in the new role of producer-writers in an attempt, they tell us, to prove that good pictures can be made with a maximum of intelligence in a minimum of time and expense.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 2, 2021 Full Review The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) 86% “What a pity that Lang is so superficial! You feel he has a flair for sensational incident and a knowledge of melodrama which might be useful in cinema if only he had some foundation on which to base his work.” – Cinema Quarterly Feb 2, 2021 Full Review The Thin Man (1934) 98% “[An] exceptionally good movie...” – Sight & Sound Nov 3, 2020 Full Review Man of Aran (1934) 92% “There are moments in the film which are among the greatest things that cinema can show, which means at the least that they provide both a mental and a physical experience which is unforgettable.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review
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