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  Films that have been considered the greatest ever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film was also selected as number one in a Village Voice critics' poll, number one in a Time Out critics' poll in 1995 and listed as the greatest film ever by the American Film Institute in 1998.
It was ranked the top Indian film in a 2002 popularity poll by the British Film Institute (BFI) conducted on the web, and number two in the BFI critics' poll in which critics were asked to compile a list of 50 best Indian as well as South Asian films [21].
This film by Yasujiro Ozu about an aging couple as they journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in postwar Tokyo was declared the greatest film ever by Halliwell's Film Guide in 2005 25.
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 Mad Love (Juana la Loca) (Spain, 2001). Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She was sent, in 1496, to the Spanish dominion of the Netherlands to marry the regent Philip ("Philip the Handsome'), the son of the Austro-German Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor (from 1493 to 1519.) This was a two-way strategic move for all parties involved.
Juana's pathological love, physical obsession and jealousy of her husband, ever-inflamed by the man's string of infidelities, is the epicenter of the movie, the center being a succession of plots and counterplots, personal as well as political.
Yet the film is easy to follow, partly thanks to excellent, clear subtitles, partly because of the first-rate characterizations and performances by a great cast (down to small parts), partly because of the décor, and mostly because of the focus on Juana.
www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/mad_love.htm   (593 words)

  
 Scifilm -- Reviews, MAD LOVE (1935)
MAD LOVE was an adaptation of the French thriller THE HANDS OF ORLAC, about a concert pianist whose amputated hands are replaced by those of a knife-throwing killer.
MAD LOVE is full of peculiar imagery that is beautifully set up.
Though the origins of MAD LOVE are European, the movie was aimed at an American audience.
www.scifilm.org /reviews3/madlove.html   (1393 words)

  
 Chapter 3: Under the Volcano
Film critic Pauline Kael is closer when she writes that "Lowry had a mystique about alcohol: he somehow got himself to believe that this self-destruction (and only this self-destruction) would give him access to the states of mind necessary to set words on fire.
Of course, Lowry is misremembering the film inasmuch as Orlac was not a murderer in the film.
In Mad Love, the hands of concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive, cast perhaps as an intertextual filmic reference to his previous role as the daring surgeon of the title in Frankenstein) are mutilated in a train accident.
www.wordsonfilm.com /dissertation/11.volcano.980504.htm   (19578 words)

  
 DVD Booty - Mad Love
This film is about a high schooler named Matt (Chris O'Donnell) who has a crush on free spirited Casey (Drew Barrymore), so he finally gets the guts to ask her out, and they go to a punk rock concert together.
Mad Love (1995): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at...
Mad Love (1935), Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy, Hen...
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 Universal Horror
While it might seem farfetched that a film from 1919 might foretell the future twenty years hence; the author makes a brilliant argument in From Caligari to Hitler, a Psychological Study of The German Film.
The year the film was produced, Hitler had taken control of the German government and the Reichstag had mysteriously burned down, setting the stage for his total control.
Part of the fun with mad scientists is the projects they devote their lives to perfect.
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 Y200: Citizen Kane
The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound).
Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25!), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script (and also with an uncredited John Houseman), and with Gregg Toland as his talented cinematographer.
The film engendered controversy (and efforts at suppression in early 1941) because it appeared to fictionalize and caricaturize certain events and individuals in the life of William Randolph Hearst, a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher, and the film drew remarkable, unflattering, and uncomplimentary parallels.
www.indiana.edu /~polfilm/student5/kelly/cKane.html   (164 words)

  
 Harvard Film Archive: People We Like
Upon his arrival in Hollywood, Lorre was cast in roles calling for varying degrees of madness, such as the love-obsessed surgeon in Mad Love (1935) and the existentialist killer in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1935).
M captures the prevailing sense of despair and corruption of Germany in the early thirties in its portrayal of the pathetic killer (Brecht-trained actor Lorre in his film debut), who is hounded by an odd alliance of pursuers: the chief of police and the highly organized criminal underworld.
The plot, with its absurd twists and turns, is the cornerstone of the comedy: a group of crooked travelers concoct a scheme to fraudulently purchase a plot of uranium-rich land in Africa, but complications arise when their ship explodes and the group is stranded on a desert island, held captive by Arabs, and then arrested.
www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/04_summer/lorre.html   (2135 words)

  
 The Bride
While the film has long since been pretty much been consigned to the scrap heap of cinematic history, it warrants a look as a real oddity.
First and last, this has got to be the ultimate love story, complete with conflict and great supporting characters, etc. Though the characters of Mary Shelley are suggested, this is in no way a horror film.
She's one of the main characters, however this movie is told from three different characters, so you have to wait for Drew in the second act to tell her part till you see much of her.
www.dvd-today.com /dvd/B00005MP52/The_Bride.html   (771 words)

  
 Les Mains d'Orlac/The Hands of Orlac (1920) - Maurice Renard
But the torments of the character in this film (and in other versions of the story) seem unfounded in any real feeling of loss, alienation, or self-disgust, and the one truly scary section of the story, which involves the possibly resurrected donor, is a nonsensical distraction.
In Paris, the great surgeon Dr. Gogol falls madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and his ardor disturbs her quite a bit when he discovers to his horror that she is married to concert pianist Stephen Orlac.
Mad Love is a 1935 horror film starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake and Colin Clive.
www.jahsonic.com /Orlac.html   (1100 words)

  
 Citizen Kane (1941)
The film was accused of drawing remarkable, unflattering, and uncomplimentary parallels (especially in regards to the Susan Alexander Kane character) to real-life.
The film tells the thought-provoking, tragic epic story of a 'rags-to-riches' child who inherited a fortune, was taken away from his humble surroundings and his father and mother, was raised by a banker, and became a fabulously wealthy, arrogant, and energetic newspaperman.
[The film's flashbacks reveal that the shattering of the glass ball is indicative of broken love.] A door opens and a white-uniformed nurse appears on screen, refracted and distorted through a curve of a sliver of shattered glass fragment from the broken globe.
www.filmsite.org /citi.html   (3911 words)

  
 The Guide to Jazz in Film Bibliography: Guides & Finding Aids (Motion Picture and Television Reading Room, ...
FEA 5455 This film may be the first appearance of fl artists in a sound film.
The film was produced using the Phonofilm system, a method of recording sound onto film, invented by Lee DeForest in 1920.
Filmed mainly in Philadelphia between 1978 and 1980, segments were also filmed at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore.
www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/findaid/jazz/s.html   (6231 words)

  
 Kinoeye | New Perspectives on European film
I have elsewhere written about films in which hands are severed from the body but continue to act with diabolical will; about hands in surreal film; and about films in which the hands of monsters serve an uncanny cinematic function.
Because films alter consciousness in a hallucinatory way, they possess the capacity to threaten one's sense of self, one's sense of integrity—and the sensation is realized in the body of the viewer of the horror film, which frequently tenses up as if in defense from an attack.
This is the potential risk of submitting to a film, that you might be permanently altered by the altered state, unable to return to who you previously were and trapped in a nightmare of revealed horror.
www.kinoeye.org /printer.php?path=02/04/goldberg04.php   (1836 words)

  
 Colin Clive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colin Clive (20 January 1900 – 25 June 1937) was a British stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein.
Clive was born in France to a British colonel, and was in the military before he became a stage actor.
This article about a British actor or actress is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colin_Clive   (139 words)

  
 The Port Washington Public Library Video Collection
Mad doctor (Boris Karloff), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.), Dracula (John Carradine), and the Frankenstein Monster (Glenn Strange) meet in Erle C. Kenton's sequel to Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
The film was lost for thirty years, until a single print was recovered in France.
Driven mad by the image of his supposedly dead wife, kindly doctor Bela Lugosi is transformed into a killer.
www.pwpl.org /media/horror.html   (8402 words)

  
 Silent Era : DVD : Earth (1930) Review
The film ends with images of the bounty of the earth and the redemption of the young and idealistic Socialist people.
It was a stroke of poetic genius on the part of Dovzhenko to begin his film with the death of the old farmer Simon (Nicholai Nademski) in an apple orchard, surrounded by friends and a harvest of fruit.
The scene serves to establish the old ways of the farmers, as Simon is a symbol of their long-established methods and traditions now passing away, and to sing an ode to their simple and earth-loving way of life.
www.silentera.com /DVD/earthDVD.html   (1294 words)

  
 The Carnivorous Plant FAQ: Movies and media
Mamie van Doren (a large-breasted trash-film goddess) is in this film.
From this description, you might think that the film qualifies perfectly as a carnivorous plant film, but the problem is that the tree is actually animated by evil forces and is not really a carnivorous plant.
All I know about this film is that the film seems to involve a landscaper who somehow becomes a part human, part plant monster, and who starts getting murderous.
www.sarracenia.com /faq/faq1395.html   (4723 words)

  
 Mad Love
Karl Freund has made great strides as a director in the three years since the rather musty The Mummy, and Mad Love is much livelier than is typical for American horror flicks of its time.
The film also has a very distinctive look to it, as atmospheric as any of the more popular Universal horrors, but without their reliance on moldering castles, foggy graveyards, and the like.
Mad Love shares much of The Mummy’s methodical character for most of its length, but it is nowhere near long enough to maintain that measured pace all the way through and still get around to all of the necessary plot developments.
www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsh-m/madlove.htm   (1590 words)

  
 mad-love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A mad doctor operates on a pianist mutilated in an accident, grafting the hands of a murderer to his arms.
's review of this film.) Freund was the cameraman on many other "silent" films, including Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS and Paul Wegener and Carl Boese's DER GOLEM.
He ended his career by working with the great TV clown, Lucille Ball, as director of photography on the vast majority of the episodes of her classic series, I Love Lucy.
yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/m/mad-love.html   (195 words)

  
 Mad Love (1935)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He agreed to be loaned out to MGM for this film if Columbia would do a film version of Crime and Punishment (1935/I) with him in the role of Raskolnikov.
Peter Lorre made a repeat performance in MAD LOVE 1935 which type-cast him into roles beneath his acting abilities like the "Beast of Five Fingers".
Hollywood loved his creepy actions and of course, the poached eyes that seemed to roll in his head.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0026663   (302 words)

  
 Profiles 6: Film People > German-Hollywood Connection
Spiegel studied in Vienna and was a guest lecturer at UCLA and film translator in 1927.
In the US he never achieved the reputation and fame he had in Europe, but he is credited with giving Dorothy Lamour her big start with the Hollander song "Moonlight and Shadow" which he put in The Jungle Princess (1936) against the studio's wishes.
His films include: Menschen am Sonntag (Ger., 1929), The Black Cat (1934, considered a classic of the horror genre; Ulmer also co-wrote the screenplay), Bluebeard (1944) and the film noir works Detour (1946) and Ruthless (1948).
www.germanhollywood.com /alphindx_6.html   (1504 words)

  
 List of films - Wikiquote
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The second section is a list of shows, indicated by red links, that do not yet have articles, but have been requested by Wikiquote users.
Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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 BPL - Booklists - From Book Store to Box Office
A 1956 film starring Dana Wynter, and a 1978 film starring Donald Sutherland.
A mad USAF general launches a nuclear attack on Russia.
In Regency times a girl's love for her less fortunate friend leads to treachery.
www.bpl.org /research/AdultBooklists/silverscreen.htm   (486 words)

  
 GERMAN 494: THE DARK MIRROR
film noir as a direct expression of exile and despair.
Separated from a home that had gone crazy, exile directors—according to this argument—revitalized Weimar expressionism in Hollywood so as to articulate personal gloom and warrant forms of authorship amid a studio system dedicated to standardized genre products and escapist star vehicles.
It explores the stylized shapes and traumatic narratives of film noir in order to examine dominant notions of film history and authorship, of cultural transfer, national cinema, exile and displacement, and the popular.
www.artsci.wustl.edu /~koepnick/noir_s01/Syllabus.htm   (777 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
Mad Love features Peter Lorre at his finest as a mad scientist to end all mad scientists.
When a concert pianist’s hands are crushed in an accident, Lorre performs an operation to replace the musician’s hands with those of a knife thrower.
This indie ensemble film from Australia examines big issues such as life and death but it's really at its best when probing smaller interactions.
www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:140002   (300 words)

  
 USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - The "M" Listing of the Movie Reviews
The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability.
The movie review line is updated each Friday and includes information about six theater releases and a Family Video of the Week.
L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling.
www.usccb.org /movies/m/m.shtml   (326 words)

  
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Years before he found fame chronicling the affairs of a Cuban bandleader and his ditzy wife in I Love Lucy, director Karl Freund brought us a snickering plastic surgeon named Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) and his object of stalking, an actress named Yvonne (Frances Drake) in the aptly titled Mad Love.
Even 60-plus years on, Mad Love has the ability to shock and amaze audiences.
Lorre oozes sweaty Teutonic pathology, his bald head poking out of clunky suits like an obscene phallus in a woolen condom, while the film obsesses with surprising frankness on voyeurism, weird surgery, Freudian sexual no-nos, and all the other things that make love a many-splendored thing.
www.citypaper.com /film/print_review.asp?id=2549   (202 words)

  
 Kinoeye | Horror: The Hands of Orlac and other possessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Clive plays his part "to hysterical perfection,"[8] and, as has been observed by more than one reviewer in the past, it is a kind of poetic justice to see the man who played Dr. Frankenstein himself become the victim of a mad doctor's hubris.
Those marbly pupils in the pasty spherical face are like the eye-pieces of a microscope through which you can see laid flat on the slide the entangled mind of a man: love and lust, nobility and perversity, hatred of itself and despair, jumping out at you from the jelly.
Neurologist Oliver Sacks explores exactly this abject horror implicit in an altered sense of proprioception in his memoir A Leg To Stand On, recalling Freud's insight that "the Ego is, first and foremost, a Body Ego,"[11] and that betrayal by the body goes to the heart of the question of identity.
www.kinoeye.org /02/04/goldberg04.php   (1832 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mad Love (1935) (1935) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His mad Dr. Gogol is one of the most over the top performances ever seen.
But his love turns deadly when he discovers she is to be married to pianist Stephan Orlac{Colin Clive}.
Mad Love is an interesting and well made little picture.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630250998X?v=glance   (1548 words)

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