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Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto Sternberg/Dietrich, Part I: The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931) and Shanghai Express (1932)

Published: Aug. 29, 2019, 5:36 a.m.

Welcome to the first installment of Fear & Moviegoing in Toronto! This time out, it\u2019s part one of our mammoth conversation covering Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg\u2019s inspired 1930s collaborations. We saw the films as part of The TIFF Lightbox\u2019s recently concluded retrospective, Insolent Enigma/Arrogant Auteur. \xa0Join us as we feel our way toward a critical counternarrative to the anemic analyses which have plagued the skin-deep celebration of this cinematic septet for too long. (Much of our discussion takes place in dialogue with Andrew Sarris\u2019 1960s monograph The Films of Josef von Sternberg.) \xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 1m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Preamble

0h 22m 27s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 The Blue Angel

0h 46m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Morocco

1h 15m 43s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Dishonored

1h 48m 30s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Shanghai Express

2h 11m 23s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 Listener Mail\xa0with\xa0Todd Murry

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