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	Piccadilly (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piccadilly (1929) is a silent British film directed by Ewald André Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray and Jameson Thomas.
		It has been re-released by Milestone Films after an extensive restoration, with music scored by Neil Brand.
		It appeared in theatres in 2004 at film festivals nationwide, and in 2005 it was released on DVD.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piccadilly_(movie) (102 words)

	Piccadilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east.
		After the Restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Piccadilly and the area to the north (Mayfair) began to be systematically developed as a fashionable residential locality.
		However Piccadilly's appeal is compromised by being one of the widest and straightest in central London, and hence having some of the most overbearing traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piccadilly (523 words)

	{musicalbear ~ film} review > dvd > e.a. dupont > piccadilly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		the bfi’s dvd release is a lovingly made restoration of a film that, until a recent critical re-evaluation of both the movie itself and the life and career of its heroine, anna may wong, had been marginalized within critical circles.
		her portrayal of shosho, a chinese scullery maid who catches the eye of nightclub owner valentine wilmot (jameson thomas) and becomes a dancer in the piccadilly, invoking the bitter jealousy of wilmot’s lover mabel greenfield (gilda gray), is mesmerising, exuding a barely, yet powerfully, restrained sexuality.
		piccadilly is a decent film, technically sound and noteworthy for both its social commentary and for the performance of anna may wong.
	www.musicalbear.com /film/review/piccadilly_ea_dupont (581 words)

	Piccadilly
		In "Piccadilly," Dupont does some great things with lighting, and his varied combinations of shadows and light are often stunning.
		She was quoted as saying, "I think I left Hollywood because I died so often." She made some films in Germany and England, but she found that the screenplays there suffered some of the same Asian stereotypes.
		Wong was in the first two-strip Technicolor film, "The Toll of the Sea " (1922), and she was handpicked by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /rmc/P/piccadilly.htm (665 words)

	At the Movies March 2004 at tedstrong.com
		MondayThursday March 811 PICCADILLY Daily: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 A thrilling rediscovery in a gorgeous restoration, E.A. Dupontís 1929 silent masterpiece Piccadilly stars the sultry Anna May Wongóarguably the first Asian film actress to gain worldwide fameóin her greatest role.
		The festival wrote, "The film is a thrilling cinematographic jewel and a landmark in the emancipation of non-white actresses." After many years of supporting roles in Hollywood, Beverly Hills High-grad Wong left for Europe in search of good roles.
		Piccadilly was the brilliant apex to Dupont's trilogy of backstage life (Varieté and Moulin Rouge), showcasing the director's signature mix of great acting, amazing imagery and astonishing camera movements.
	www.tedstrong.com /atthemoviesmar04.shtml (943 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Piccadilly
		While the European-made Piccadilly was easily the high point of her cinema career, boasting a powerful role that Hollywood could not bring itself to offer her, it might help viewers to understand the differences between this film and her Hollywood life if we had some direct comparisons.
		Piccadilly is another winner from the Milestone Collection, which has proven to be one of the leaders in preserving significant landmarks of cinema history.
		The film is a great example of the potential of silent cinema to turn the human body into pure signage: Anna May Wong transcends her character to become the embodiment of the Asian Woman on screen.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/piccadilly.php (2226 words)

	Gerald Peary - film reviews - Piccadilly
		Piccadilly, a fascinating 1929 British pre-talkie, is playing for the first time in America in 75 years.
		Piccadilly shivers at Wong's extraordinary torn-stockings entrance into the movie; as she sashays her loins about, it predates Brando's Stanley Kowalski with his ripped undershirt.
		Piccadilly ends with a murder trial, and with a "surprise" killer in the tiresome way of a musty Victorian crime novel.
	www.geraldpeary.com /reviews/pqr/piccadilly.html (716 words)

	Baghdad By The Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		No Asian film actress has come close in fame in America since her, which in a way is a sad commentary since she peaked in the 1940s.
		The soundtrack which flirts with Jazz, music typical of the era the film was made, sounds too contemporary and upbeat, to fit in with the period and dark aspects of the film.
		But if one is curious to see a film, as I was, that features one of the few great Asian film actresses, you more than likely won?t be disappointed, at least with her performance.
	www.bagdadbythebay.com /template.php?id=209 (711 words)

	sfbg.com \| A and E
		The wrong the film was most eager to right was the American film industry's underutilization of actor Anna May Wong, whose star turn in Piccadilly helped secure her fleeting international position as a trend-and-fashion-setting cause célèbre and the intermittently flickering status she's enjoyed, as one of the silent screen's most venomous vamps, ever since.
		Though little remembered today, Piccadilly's German-born director, Dupont, a contemporary of F.W. Murnau and G.W. Pabst, enjoyed tremendous acclaim during his heyday and was celebrated in particular for his ability to fuse the dreadful darknesses of German expressionism with a flair for propulsive storytelling and seedy local detail.
		Still, the touring version of the film remains a must-see, even if it begs you to close your ears and listen with your eyes: as one character admits of Wong's Piccadilly fatale, "Her smile is opium." Better late than never, it's time we all inhaled.
	www.sfbg.com /38/23/cover_piccadilly.html (548 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Piccadilly
		Piccadilly is a fascinating silent filmed just before the British film industry made the changeover to sound.
		Piccadilly not only exalts her as a sex symbol, it uses the stereotyped "inscrutability" of Asians as a function of her appeal.
		The British Film Institute's restoration is remarkable, from the original titles written on double-decker busses to the specific tints used throughout the film.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1524picc.html (1767 words)

	Short Cuts
		This 63-minute autobiographical silent film tour de force from bizarro director Maddin, is, in my opinion, the best film of 2004, and perhaps the most dynamic and visceral piece of filmmaking to come along in years.
		A print of the film, newly restored by the British Film Institute, received a standing ovation when it was played at the New York Film Festival two years ago, and Piccadilly has been made the centerpiece of a national tour of Milestone films to commemorate its anniversary.
		The film, released after sound pictures were being produced, made her one of the last great silent film stars.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/2005/10/14/arts/shortcuts.html (1107 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Nobody's Lotus Flower: "Rediscovering Anna May Wong" Film Retrospective
		UCLA's twelve-feature film retrospective, titled "Rediscovering Anna May Wong," opened January 9 with the newly restored silent gem Piccadilly, and is part of a spurt of recent interest in Wong's life and works.
		Piccadilly, restored by the British Film Institute, played to a sold out crowd at the New York Film Festival, and will be screened in New York this weekend along with an accompanying five-film retrospective put together by the Museum of Modern Art.
		UCLA is an ideal location for the retrospective because of its extensive collection of Anna May Wong films (the largest in the country) and its large collection of films from Paramount, says Mimi Brody, UCLA film archivist who coordinated the event.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=6590 (1609 words)

	village voice > film > 'Anna May Wong'; Piccadilly by J. Hoberman
		The bill is rounded out with clips from The Thief of Bagdad (1924), which Wong nearly stole from Douglas Fairbanks in the small but unforgettable part of an underdressed Mongolian spy, and Old San Francisco (1927), made the year before she briefly relocated to Europe, her career stymied by American racial prejudice.
		Dupont's mobile camera maneuvers around a splendid set to track a tawdry showbiz sexual triangle: The pomaded proprietor of the deco nightspot Club Piccadilly dumps his star jazz baby to pursue Wong's lithe slum goddess, first seen entertaining her fellow scullions with a dreamily sensuous tabletop dance.
		Piccadilly is both evidence of silent cinema at its rudely aborted peak and Wong's frustrated potential to have been among its greatest stars.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0403/hoberman2.php (374 words)

	Anna May Wong in 'Piccadilly' article on the official website of Laura Hird
		Wong is a revelation in ‘Piccadilly.’ Like Brooks, she dominates the scenes not just through her beauty, but also through the sheer subtlety of her acting, her mercurial changes of expression, her ability to convey both mischief, scheming and endearing innocence.
		The restored film has been given a marvellous jazz and swing soundtrack by modern composer, Neil Brand, and the instruments are perfectly in rhythm with this scene.
		Dupont’s film is a breathtaking mix of German expressionism and noirish vision, jazz-age London, and the clash between cultures, whether Chinese and English, poor and rich, or East End versus West End.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/piccadilly.html (2842 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Piccadilly at Epinions.com
		In another part of the jungle, Victor Smiles is informing Mabel that he is fed up with The Piccadilly Club and wants her to go to Broadway with him, but she dismisses the idea.
		And later in the film, when Sho-Sho takes Valentine down to show him the nightspots of Limehouse, racial resentment flares, surprisingly when a cockney woman identified as "Vamp" (Ellen Pollack in a memorable bit) is threatened for dancing with a flman.
		PICCADILLY is better remembered as perhaps the finest role Anna May Wong ever had.
	www.epinions.com /content_134979882628 (1772 words)

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		In fact, Piccadilly still seems modern through its implication of how sex and race, commerce and salaciousness are intertwined in the showbiz realm.
		The revival of Piccadilly coincides with contemporary interest in Anna May Wong (currently the subject of a new biography and museum exhibit).
		Her role as Shosho recalls some of Josephine Baker’s roles in the French film industry that utilized a non-white actress’ exoticism as a focus on the culture’s biases.
	www.nypress.com /17/4/film/film2.cfm (1495 words)

	Piccadilly Jim (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Piccadilly Jim that finally emerged from Fellowes's screenplay was an interpretation deeply at odds with Wodehouse humor, the result of the selection of a director, John McKay, who was mismatched with the story.
		The Piccadilly Jim of 2004 is a true wastrel, a womanizer, brawler, and drunkard who is deeply unsympathetic.
		The 1936 film of Piccadilly Jim had Jim pen cartoon parodies of the Pett family in retribution for their condescending treatment of his father, before Jim knew Ann was their relative.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0371878 (1136 words)

	Piccadilly (1929) Movie Review - Piccadilly (1929) Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Though you may not have heard of her, she's the definition of memorable, which is undoubtedly the chief reason the 1929 silent film "Piccadilly" can now be seen in an especially rich and lengthy sepia-drenched version restored by the British Film Institute.
		"Piccadilly," made in England under the creative watch of German director E. Dupont ("Variety"), is less known than Wong's contributions to Josef von Sternberg's "Shanghai Express" (1932), but is still arguably the most important performance of her career.
		Racially speaking, "Piccadilly" is as casually insensitive and careless as you might expect from a film of this era, but it's also surprisingly crafty about finding ways to incite discussion.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=4698 (518 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Piccadilly Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dupont's camera was as fluid as his films' moral stances, and Wong leapt at the chance to escape the Victorian attitudes toward race of the American cinema.
		Her screen fame there was such that she appeared not only in another film, The Flame of Love, but also made a cameo appearance in the lavish revue film, Elstree Calling, as "herself." The live stage in England called, as well; she appeared in Circle of Chalk with a young Laurence Olivier.
		After her death in 1961, she was largely forgotten, until film historians began excavating Hollywood films of the 1920's and 1930's for previously slighted portrayals by ethnic performers.
	www.albany.edu /writers.inst/fnf04n3.html (787 words)

	Piccadilly - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Two aspects of the 1929 silent film "Piccadilly" compete for power in a fascinating yet frustrating film-watching experience.
		Piccadilly Club owner Valentine Wilmot (Jameson Thomas) discovers Shosho (Wong), a scullery maid who, in torn stockings, is entertaining the kitchen help by dancing on a tabletop while the whole group should be working.
		According to film notes from Milestone Film and Video and the British Film Institute -- which were behind the otherwise gorgeous restoration of the film -- after "Piccadilly" was initially released in 1929, a "far from satisfactory" score was added.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/movies/reviews/s_200592.html (630 words)

	Piccadilly (1929) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Piccadilly" is a zesty, super-entertaining melodrama; one of the most delightful silent films I've seen, so far.
		The film is energetically directed, and performed with gusto by an enthusiastic cast.
		She performs one astonishingly erotic dance sequence that is the highlight of the film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0020269 (357 words)

	Film Society - Walter Reade Theater
		The part of Shosho, a dishwasher in the Piccadilly Club who soon becomes the star attraction, was not only this fiercely intelligent and drop-dead gorgeous actress's greatest role but a fascinating embodiment of her predicament as a Chinese woman in a white man's industry.
		Jonathan Rosenbaum has written that Piccadilly is “"far ahead of its time in its treatment of both race and gender,"” and he's not wrong.
		It is also a truly great film —— “"one of the truly great films of the silent era"” wrote Martin Scorsese —— featuring a great performance by a spellbinding actress.
	www.filmlinc.com /wrt_old/programs/8-2005/milestone.htm (903 words)

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		Piccadilly is a dazzling visual spectacle and a somewhat lesser suspenseful backstage melodrama.
		The film opens to the colorful dance team of Mabel (Gilda Gray, known for popularizing the "shimmy dance") and Vic (Cyril Richard) being the latest rage in the West End, as they appear to packed crowds in the palatial Piccadilly Club.
		The film comes to a tragic conclusion that evokes a memorable haunting mood, as the dishwasher's rise to the top is only short-lived.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/piccadilly.htm (658 words)

	LDS Film\|Movies by Latter-day Saints\|LDS Videos\|Utah filmmakers
		This Divided State: Minority Films; A raw and riveting examination of the heated "red versus blue" rift in the nation, "This Divided State" begins in September 2004 with the presidential election fast approaching and the State of Utah ready to declare itself "Bush Country" once again.
		This well received family film is about a 12-year-old during the depression of the 1930's, who is sent to live with her aunt in a small town where dogs are banned.
		Filmed in Maine in March 2004, it was released November 1, 2005, in limited theaters and world-wide on DVD.
	www.ldsfilm.com (7427 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Local filmmaker Tyler Ford shoots 'Piccadilly Cowboy' in London
		"Piccadilly Cowboy" is "definitely made for the LDS niche market," Ford said, but the film has some universal themes.
		He is finishing up his master's degree in filmmaking from the London Film School and has made a number of shorts and documentaries.
		His film headquarters in London has been 3 Mills Studio — the same place where Tim Burton is currently working on "The Corpse Bride" — in the very office where Elijah Wood previously worked.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600128127,00.html (942 words)

	Metroland Online - Art Murmur
		The Film Notes made available before the screening will be insightful, if occasionally too revealing of the film’s plot, and will be written by Penn State’s Kevin Hagopian; Hagopian has continued to provide these notes from wherever his academic postings have taken him over the last dozen years.
		Though Piccadilly was featured at the New York Film Festival, and three biographies of its star, Anna May Wong, were published this year, the hall was half-full at best.
		I went with some trepidation, as the film was to be accompanied by the Writers Institute’s regular silent-film accompanist, and, sadly, he isn’t very good.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_27_no42/art_murmur.html (718 words)

	screenonline: Piccadilly (1929)
		The Piccadilly nightclub is in danger of decline when manager Valentine sacks his star attraction.
		is notable for qualities not typically associated with British films: grandiloquence, passion and a surprisingly direct approach to issues of race - one remarkable scene has a white woman expelled from a bar for dancing with a fl man, mirroring the social taboo of the film's central relationship.
		was subsequently associated with the shortlived vogue for multi-language films, and
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/486639/index.html (415 words)

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