I know it sounds pretty obstinately dumb, but I’ve sometimes felt the same way.

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July 8- Skinny dipping

Blonde Venus (1932)
Directed by Josef Von Sternberg

Helen (Marlene Dietrich) is skinny-dipping in a German forest with a group of fellow women performers, when she meets and has a flirtatious conversation with her future husband, American student Ned (Herbert Marshall), who comes upon them while hiking.

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Il 29 maggio 1894 nasceva a Vienna Josef von Sternberg, mentore, regista e poi amante di Marlene Dietrich.
https://www.lasinistraquotidiana.it/marlene-dietrich-dalla-testa-ai-piedi-fatta-per-lamore/

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Josef von Sternberg’s final film, Anatahan (1953), is as artificial as they come but stunningly so. It tells the tale of Japanese soldiers stranded on a tropical island but was filmed on a soundstage in Kyoto with nary a beach or jungle in sight; foliage was constructed from paper and cellophane with the Kabuki-trained actors front-and-center in the clearly unreal settings, dappled with light and shadow. Even weirder, Sternberg does not translate any of the Japanese spoken dialogue but provides a voice-over narrative (in his own voice) that describes the action, often offering asides and commentary, as if from the perspective of one of the characters. When the stranded men discover that they are not alone but share the island with an abandoned plantation owner and his “wife”, Keiko (Akemi Negishi), their military discipline collapses into sexual desire and jealousy. Dazzlingly strange and beautiful. #cinemastadon #film #vonSternberg

https://artstukas.blogspot.com/2023/05/anatahan-1953.html