The Blue Angel, 1930: Dir. Josef von Sternberg
The Blue Angel, 1930: Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Recommended Version
This Eureka version is currently the best version to use. It is recommended by S.S. Prawer in his little BFI monograph on The Blue Angel (pp 74-75):
Cooperation between the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, The Filmuseum Berlin, The Universum Film GMBH and Transit Film of Munich has produced an excellent double DVD which contains, besides useful features such as biographies, portrait photos, screentests, trailers of the 1930s and 1960s and a chronicle of the film's gestation, digitally remastered copies of the best available German and English versions of The Blue Angel.
Notes
This post is currently what I'm describing as a 'phase one' post. A synopsis and contextual and critical comments will be added at a later date. Through the webliography below this post thus serves to act as a resource page. This will allow prospective course members and other visitors to conduct some basic research into the relevant film. For further research you may also consuly the relevant bibliography. Please use the bibliographies tag in the sidebar to access this resource.
Webliography
At the time of writing the following sites I consider the best researched academically or else are present because of the quality of their links. This is searched down to page 20 of Google.
Link to Kamera.co.uk review:
http://www.kamera.co.uk/reviews_extra/blueangel.php
Link to Senses of Cinema article on Sternberg and Dietrich
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/00/7/angels.html
Link to Senses of Cinema article on von Sternberg
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/19/sternberg.html
Link to POV (Point of View Journal) + Link to Spy & The Cabaret Singer
http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_02/POV_2cnt.html
http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_02/section_1/artc1A.html
Link to "The Blue Angel": A Reconsideration
Geoffrey Wagner
The Quarterly of Film Radio and Television, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Autumn, 1951), pp. 48-53 this needs a Jstor subscription:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=1549-0068(195123)6%3A1%3C48%3A%22BAAR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
Link to German Film Archive
http://www.german-films.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=601
Link to German flicks.com
http://www.germanflicks.com/blueangel.html
Village Voice Review
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0128,atkinson,26257,20.html
Cornell University commentary on screening of 6 Dietrich films:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/02/1.31.02/cinema.html
BBC DVD Review:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/09/20/the_blue_angel_1930_dvd_review.shtml
Lee Russell article on Sternberg in New Left Review. Need subscription or must pay for article:
http://newleftreview.org/?view=1335
Bright Lights Review:
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/44/marlene.htm
An honest undergraduate project with lots of images:
http://www.infinetivity.com/~babaloo/blue1.htm
30 Mar 2007 16:36
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Tags: Eureka Video European Cinema German Cinema History Of European Cinema Josef Von Sternberg Kinoeye Marlene Dietrich Open Studies Summer Term Films 2007 The Blue Angel Weimar And Nazi Cinema Weimar Cinema
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