Tagged: William Dieterle

alexander miller / monday movie / movies

August 9, 2023

Monday Movie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Reinhardt and Dieterle’s 1935 film is the true embodiment of the term “movie magic.” Shakespeare’s prose...

2022 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / tcm fest 2022

April 27, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part Three, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Three William Dieterle’s (again!) Portrait of Jennie has the distinction of being quite possibly the weirdest-ass movie I’ve ever seen at a TCM Classic Film Festival. Granted, the bar’s not set all that high...

2022 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / tcm fest 2022

April 25, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part One, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part One It’s going to be hard to resist the temptation to turn every reaction to every movie I saw at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival into a gleeful celebration of the fact that...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

September 2, 2020

Criterion Prediction #257: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Alexander Miller

Title: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Year: 1935 Director(s): William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt Cast: Olivia de Havilland, James Cagney, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dick Powell, Mickey Rooney, Kenneth Anger Synopsis: Four travelers escape Greece only to land in a mystical forest where fairy...

movies / Rep-port / scott nye

April 10, 2018

The L.A. Rep-port: Noir City, by Scott Nye

Noir isn’t just the genre trappings we’re constantly sold; long shadows and dangerous ladies and hardened men. It’s something that digs into the soul and the body and the way we try to live with and apart one another. It’s...

Tagged: William Dieterle

Monday Movie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Alexander Miller

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part Three, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part One, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #257: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Alexander Miller

The L.A. Rep-port: Noir City, by Scott Nye

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