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Josef von Sternberg ( German: [ˈjoːzɛf fɔn ˈʃtɛʁnbɛʁk]; born Jonas Sternberg; May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969) was an Austrian-born filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.
With The Last Command (1928) , starring the equally strong-willed Emil Jannings, von Sternberg began a period of almost a decade as one of the most celebrated artists of world cinema. Both his film career and his personal life were transformed in the making of The Blue Angel (1930).
May 25, 2024 · Josef von Sternberg was an Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films are characterized by pictorial richness and photographic craftsmanship. He is especially known for his seven films with actress Marlene Dietrich. Sternberg emigrated with his family to join his father in New York.
Mar 13, 2002 · Nonetheless, the truth was palpable at a long-overdue retrospective at the Cinémathèque in Paris: Josef von Sternberg is in the highest pantheon of twentieth-century art.
The titles in this collection, made on the cusp of the sound age, are three of von Sternberg’s greatest works, gritty evocations of gangster life ( Underworld ), the Russian Revolution ( The Last Command ), and working-class desperation ( The Docks of New York) rendered as shadowy movie spectacle.
Shot in Kyoto, it was the story of the Japanese survivors of a shipwreck, who remained in hiding until years after the end of the Second World War. The story of Japan’s last holdout was used by Josef von Sternberg as a canvas to explore human nature and underscore universal traits.
May 29, 2019 · A beginner’s path through the exhilarating, exotic, soundstage wonders of Josef von Sternberg.
