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Our Gang At Home 1925
A promotional reel about the Our Gang stars, using special effects to illustrate their ideas of adulthood and themselves.
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A Wireless Lizzie 1929
A radio geek invents remote control technology for almost everything in his life--except his romantic rival, who tries to use that driverless car to eliminate the inventor and get the girl.
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The Scarlet Empress 1934
A fever dream of sex, violence, and grotesqueness. An impressionist sketch of infinite riches in a squalid little room.
If some Lubitsch comedies are operettas minus the singing, The Scarlet Empress is unsung grand opera: a vestigial plot and a purely nominal basis in history, serving as a pretext for a series of star turns of the highest order. It's demented, and as in the operatic world, I intend that as the highest praise possible. If I knew more about 20th century music, I would lament that someone didn't collaborate with von Sternberg to give this work the musical setting it deserves.
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Male and Female 1919
The desert island sequences are underpinned by BDSM in Victorian fancy dress, seasoned with a touch of blasphemy. And then of course in the last reel de Mille pivots to upholding middle-class middle American virtues.
