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period is about the time of Nana, an atmosphere the French know so well how to recreate. Miss Cohen of the Academy tells me it may be shown in England. It is the best sound film exposition of the naturalistic approach to cinema.
The Nazi persecution of the German film producers is likely to benefit the French cinema. Lang, Pommer, Pabst, Ophuls, and a host of others are working in Paris. It is too early yet to see any of the films they are making, but the grafting of German technique on the French school will certainly create films of interest. The introduction of the German technicians will undoubtedly improve the technical deficiences of the French cinema. How the film meltingpot will assimilate the French esprit and the German soul exploration is a matter for conjecture. Preserve us from introspective musicals or comedies of the subconscious!
AMERICA
Lewis Jacobs, who already has to his credit Mobile Composition, Commercial Medley, and a four-reel documentary of the Southern States, has now completed City Block, which is described as "a film of violence." It is a close-up of a metropolitan block emphasising cinematic technique rather than photographic quality. Sound is used in counterpoint to image and not as exposition. The content is entirely documentary. All sorts of ruses were resorted to in order to photograph the people without their knowledge. A naturalness and naivete, which can only be achieved in this way, is the result.
An intimate little cinema, seating 280, luxuriously furnished and decorated in the modern manner, is about to be opened in Baltimore by Hermann G. Weinberg, whose policy is to show only European films and those American films which because of their artistic merit (when they occur!) cannot get a release through the larger houses. Among the films it is hoped to show during 1933-34 are Atlantide, Don Quixote, Mirage de Paris, M, Foil de Carotte, The Merry Monarch, Ariane, A Nous la Liberte, July 14, Fin du Monde, and The Deserter.
Prior to The Face of New England, Henwar Radakiewicz made two films: The Barge, a documentary, shot entirely on a tugboat; and Portrait of the Artist, also a documentary. In both of these, Radakiewicz achieved striking photographic effects. The Face of New England furthers the melodramatic quality of his photography. The film is divided into four moods: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. The particular atmosphere and detail of New England environs is inter
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