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Joshua Lowe

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My Four Years in Germany (1918) 95% EDIT “William Nigh's work, both as director and assembler, will stamp him as a producer of the highest rank.” – Variety Nov 16, 2022 Full Review Mutiny (1917) 100% EDIT “There is some red-blooded action, such as mutiny on board, the wrecking of the vessel in a storm, etc., making for five interesting reels to the average picture patron.” – Variety Sep 7, 2022 Full Review The Secret of the Swamp (1916) 67% EDIT “The story is told in serious melodramatic fashion and the denouement comes as a surprise for the spectators. Therefore we have a melodrama with a surprise comedy finish.” – Variety Sep 7, 2022 Full Review The Greater Law (1917) 100% EDIT “[It was filmed in] Truckee, Cal., high up amid the Sierras, and there snow scenes and ice fields, flecked with giant firs and evergreen shrubs, furnished a Klondyke backing that is psychic in its cool beauties on a midsummer afternoon or evening.” – Variety Sep 7, 2022 Full Review The Show Down (1917) 83% EDIT “While The Show-Down may not be considered the best of many really beautiful releases Lynn F. Reynolds has given to Bluebird, it nevertheless averages well above the standard of photoplays usual to program features.” – Variety Sep 6, 2022 Full Review The Dream Girl (1916) 86% EDIT “The Dream Girl, Lasky (Paramount) feature by Jeanie MacPherson, produced by Cecil DeMille, proves that, while there is nothing new under the sun, you can take one of the very oldest "plots" and make a scenario out of it by proper handling.” – Variety Jun 2, 2021 Full Review Squadron Leader X (1943) 88% EDIT “A very workmanlike job on which time and money must have been lavishly expended, intelligently cast, directed and photographed.” – Variety May 14, 2021 Full Review Romeo and Juliet (1916) 100% EDIT “The Capulet festivities in the first act make a well-handled bit of mass, with a group of bare-legged dancers to help out the spectacle and the street brawls were extremely picturesque.” – Variety Mar 5, 2021 Full Review The Fall of a Nation (1916) 43% EDIT “The big battle scenes were remarkably well staged, calling forth volumes of tremendous applause at the premiere. Victor Herbert's Interpretative music aided materially to the general effectiveness.” – Variety Nov 20, 2020 Full Review Shoes (1916) 91% EDIT “There are no "big" or "sensational" scenes, merely a vision of life as it actually is, and devoid of all theatricalism.” – Variety Nov 18, 2020 Full Review Wildcat of Paris (1919) 80% EDIT “Rather impressive and intensely thrilling.” – Variety Oct 21, 2020 Full Review The Golem (1920) 100% EDIT “The production is an impressively dignified one and the scenes of medieval limes are well visualized, with some magnificent mob scenes. The cast has been carefully selected with a view to the depiction of ancient types and are all excellent.” – Variety Oct 13, 2020 Full Review The Woman Who Dared (1916) 86% EDIT “It Is due to the ingenuity of combining the situations with the excellent ensemble acting of the high grade company organized by the California Co. that the almost certain success of The Woman Who Dared is due.” – Variety Aug 25, 2020 Full Review Life Without Soul (1916) 100% EDIT “Here is a subject worthy the effort of a Griffith. The Ocean folks have done well with it, despite numerous inconsistencies, but there is no reasonable limit to the possibilities of such a subject.” – Variety Aug 19, 2020 Full Review Madame Jealousy (1918) 71% EDIT “Designed as a complete departure from the usual style of photoplay feature, Madame Jealousy is an unqualified success.” – Variety Aug 18, 2020 Full Review Carmen (1915) 78% EDIT “It just misses being a masterpiece.” – Variety Jul 25, 2020 Full Review Carmen (1915) 80% EDIT “The magnificence of the scenic investiture as a whole reflects much credit upon the producers and praiseiIs due the director.” – Variety Jul 2, 2020 Full Review Daughter of the Gods (1916) 90% EDIT “A Daughter of the Gods Is without question one of the most stupendous exhibitions of pageantry ever shown and is most artistically directed.” – Variety Jun 27, 2020 Full Review The Darling of Paris (1917) 86% EDIT “It is entitled to the utmost commendation.” – Variety Dec 30, 2019 Full Review EDIT “It is unquestionably a fact conceded by all who witness this photo play, that It ranks In the first division as a production of Importance and artistry.” – Variety Dec 27, 2019 Full Review Such a Little Pirate (1918) 80% EDIT “It's a clean, wholesome, simple, straight-away tale not intended to be accepted seriously by grown-ups, and makes a diverting 60 minutes' entertainment.” – Variety Dec 23, 2019 Full Review The Blue Bird (1918) 100% EDIT “From the standpoint of a film production, there have been more expensive and pretentious attempts, but It is safe to assert that nothing quite like Director Tourneur's work has ever been shown on the screen.” – Variety Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Forbidden City (1918) EDIT “The scenic and atmospheric details are elaborately splendid, and the general acting and direction of a very high order.” – Variety Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Salome (1918) 78% EDIT “All things considered, the William Fox-Theda Bara screen production of Salome is a pretentious, artistic, interesting presentation of the sensational order and gives every indication of enjoying largo financial success.” – Variety Dec 14, 2019 Full Review Blind Justice (1915) 100% EDIT “It Is not the play, the fine scenic detail or anything else -- It is the remarkable acting of Benjamin [Christensen] that makes Blind Justice a masterpiece of motion photography.” – Variety Oct 16, 2019 Full Review
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