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| No Score Yet | Putyovka v Zhizn (Road to Life) (1931) |
Ekk's story of The Way into Life of the Besprisonis (i.e., the uncared-for children), shown in the hands of a new, free art of education, acquaints us with a very impressive, typical part of Soviet work. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 19, 2021
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| No Score Yet | Enthusiasm (Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa) (1931) |
Vertoff, also, has waged fierce, vehement and esperate battles with his material and his instruments (i.e., reality and the film camera) to give practical proofs of his ideas. In this he has failed. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 19, 2021
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| No Score Yet | Sentimental Romance (Romance Sentimentale) (1930) |
Romance Sentimentale is not a Russian film but a human one. In spite of its slight over-pointedness, skittishness, formalism -- and because of it. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 19, 2021
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| No Score Yet | Die Koffer des Herrn O.F. (The Trunks of Mr. O.F.) (2010) |
This farce on the economic crisis reminds us of a juggler who appears with a serious face of a doctor at the death-bed of the patient and who promises to bring him new life. Then he begins to tickle the patient until he laughingly expires. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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| 90% | Comradeship (Kameradschaft) (1931) |
The scenes of the catastrophe and rescue which take up two thirds of the action, are full of the most complicated, subtle and effective shots ever made in a German studio. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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| 100% | Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform) (Maidens in Uniform) (1931) |
[The story] might be of less importance in itself than the way in which it has been moulded. A way which expresses naturally and with charm the delicate side of the subject and which characterizes distinctly but not abruptly. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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| No Score Yet | Hell on Earth (1931) |
With this apotheosis the film ends. It is only an apotheosis, no reality. - Close Up
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| Posted Jan 13, 2021
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