The surrealist fashion plate, jointly made by Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel (his first movie, and already several of his staples are on display: insects, donkeys, razor blades, comical clergymen). Very exciting for the dream logic that allows a portion of a scene to change course while the remainder of …
King Vidor's highly personal, highly willful portrayal of the life of black folks (sin, salvation, and songs in particular) in the Deep South, Vidor's own geographical origin. In some ways it was as bold an experiment in ethnography as the documentaries of Robert Flaherty (and maybe, because so much closer …
One of Mary Pickford's few sound films (and rather poor sound at that) has strong biographical interest, at least, in putting her tempestuous marriage to Douglas Fairbanks on screen, four decades before Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton hopped aboard the same vehicle, and in tailoring the Shakespearean roles neatly to …