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Robert Herring

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Napoleon (1927) 87% “[Abel Gance] is a little too determined to exploit the kinema's possibilities. He is a florid director, so that as the spiritual falls emphasis on technique rises. This is unfortunate because the technique, though grandiose, is extraordinarily haphazard.” – Guardian May 14, 2024 Full Review Only Yesterday (1933) 100% “Such trash should wreck a talkie, but Margaret Sullavan would make any film, and she is the girl in the film... In a picture which is manufactured to run that well-worn gamut of emotions, she convinces us that each one is personal and real.” – Guardian Apr 23, 2024 Full Review Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) 96% “[Keaton's character] is stamped at once as an eccentric, but he goes on doggedly, refusing to he a type in order to succeed, and though he does everything wrong he does it so often that at last he does succeed in his own way.” – Guardian Mar 21, 2023 Full Review The Dark Angel (1935) 94% “There shall always be a hint of tears behind the laughter, and if we finally feel inclined to laugh at the tears, that is not because there is too little tragedy, but too much sentimentality. ” – Guardian Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 97% “Snow White is... much more Disney than Grimm, a pantomime rather than a fairy-story. But it is a pantomime so rich in detail and so full of delicate effects of colour and lighting that repeated visits are necessary to gain the greatest pleasure from it.” – Guardian Dec 20, 2022 Full Review King Kong (1933) 97% “The producers, indeed, have been so busy piling Pelion on Ossa that they have destroyed King Kong in the avalanche. The film has so many excitements that it is not really exciting. ” – Guardian Nov 9, 2022 Full Review The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 92% “It is therefore fortunate that the picture is brilliantly and at times subtly directed, for it does not fail to hold interest and to command respect. But it would have evoked a warmer admiration had it been less refined and more passionate. ” – Guardian Aug 2, 2022 Full Review The Rogue Song (1930) 79% “Lawrence Tibbett has neither; he has a fine baritone voice, but as his only excuse for using it is to say "I will sing you a song I have written," one grows tired of the awkward reiteration.” – Guardian Jun 29, 2022 Full Review Moulin Rouge (1928) “Olga Tschechowa as the mother acted well, in a difficult part.” – Close Up Dec 9, 2021 Full Review The Last Command (1928) 95% “Though it is concerned with the Russian revolution, not once does it get any spirit of that Revolution across.” – Close Up Dec 9, 2021 Full Review The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) 100% “It is light and artificial, but it preserves its lightness, and it never tries to be any thing else but artificial.” – Close Up Dec 9, 2021 Full Review The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 72% “The representation of this greatness is done with such consistent loud-pedalling that the picture lacks climax as much as it needs relief.” – Guardian Dec 2, 2021 Full Review The Ring (1927) 90% “Mr Hitchcock's method is to depict one simple fact, that a sub-title could have got over, by a long sequence or a number of elaborate tricks. This is worse than a photographic rendering of a story, for it is pretentious.” – Close Up Oct 29, 2021 Full Review The Way of All Flesh (1927) 88% “Jannings acting intensifies, it does not transfigure.... He can impress himself on the general atmosphere, but he cannot express that atmosphere. Put him in water, and he will swim; put him in mud and he sinks, he becomes mud.” – Close Up May 20, 2021 Full Review The Power and the Glory (1933) 86% “It offers great scope for sound and is, indeed, the first step taken by Hollywood towards any imaginative appreciation of sound as a medium.” – Guardian May 13, 2021 Full Review Modern Times (1936) 98% “There are many sequences which will become famous. The philosophy is evident. It is clear that Chaplin's answer to modern times is that if the individual does not conform he is taken away in a van to prison or to hospital.” – Guardian May 6, 2021 Full Review It Happened One Night (1934) 98% “A director can be gauged by his handling of players, and if Frank Capra still needed to be recommended to our consideration his direction of stars in his latest film would do so.” – Guardian Mar 31, 2021 Full Review The Singing Fool (1928) “This is now the third production on Vitaphone that London has seen; it is time now that the novelty has been demonstrated that something intelligent and entertaining were done with it.” – Guardian Feb 25, 2021 Full Review All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 98% “The film has at once a freedom and a form new to talkies. It has a scope and size new to war-films.” – Close Up Jan 21, 2021 Full Review The Hollywood Revue (1929) 43% “Not the The Hollywood Revue isn't fun, but it's so disappointing and silly.” – Close Up Jan 19, 2021 Full Review Men of Tomorrow (1932) 50% “The film's failure is simply that the story it surrounds is stereotyped.” – Close Up Jan 14, 2021 Full Review Hearts in Dixie (1929) “With the exception of these songs, it all came over so naturally and so free from hypocrisy, that one found one was for once watching a talkie free from sentimentality.” – Close Up Jan 14, 2021 Full Review 4 Devils (1928) 82% “Murnau can only deal with mass emotions, and he is not psychologist enough to make of human symbols of humanity he seeks.” – Guardian Dec 3, 2020 Full Review Maedchen in Uniform (1931) 100% “It is acted and directed with forceful simplicity, and is a strong example of Germany's return to assurance in the talkie field.” – Guardian Nov 18, 2020 Full Review Shanghai Express (1932) 96% “The film has compensating strength in the star, who photographs more beautifully than before and, though she is acted off the screen by Anna May Wong, shows herself unique in Hollywood by being majestically beautiful.” – Guardian Sep 6, 2018 Full Review
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