Jewel Robbery has experienced a formidable change of fortune recently. In the past, film historians sometimes mentioned it respectfully in passing in the context of William Powell’s career, or as an example of elegant pre-code badinage, or as one of the more successful imitations of Lubitsch’s style. It’s getting a lot more love nowadays, andContinue reading “Jewel Robbery (1932)”
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Syncopation (1942)
William Dieterle’s Syncopation is a comic bio-pic about the evolution of New Orleans jazz. Basically a love letter to the New Orleans origins of jazz, and some say based on the Bix Beiderbecke-Bunny Berrigan-Louis Armstrong friendship, it’s a sincere white lefty plea to take jazz seriously as not only an African-American art, but as theContinue reading “Syncopation (1942)”