#Der blaue Engel

[bitter69uk]

“Paramount, which signed her [Marlene Dietrich] in a tizzy after viewing a rough cut of The Blue Angel, was the only studio that actually liked weird directors; von Sternberg was the champ of weird. Stop the projector during a medium shot in any of his films and you’ll see a crammed picture, every piece in it doing something. Graffiti, toys, masks, light fixtures, bowls of things: the sets are alive.” / From Movie Star: A Look at the Women Who Made Hollywood by Ethan Mordden, 1983 / If visionary director Josef von Sternberg (Jonas Sternberg, 29 May 1894 - 22 December 1969 – died 55 years ago today) was the Leonardo da Vinci of cinema, then German glamourpuss leading lady Marlene Dietrich was his Mona Lisa. The seven films the duo made together between 1930 and 1935 were dark, erotic, witty and sublime works of art / fleurs du mal in which they honed Dietrich's complex, sultry and feline persona and brought a whiff of genuine Continental decadence to mainstream Hollywood. Once Dietrich and Sternberg’s personal and professional relationship imploded his career went into a steep decline (Sternberg’s “artistic temperament” burnt a lot of bridges!) but I love his later post-Dietrich films The Shanghai Gesture (1941), Macao (1952) and Anatahan (1953). (I’m the first to admit, I haven’t seen any of his earlier silent movies). The intense and fruitful creative union between auteur Sternberg and muse Dietrich arguably created a template for the likes of Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Hanna Schygulla, John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, Pedro Almodovar and Carmen Maura (or Penelope Cruz) – and John Waters and Divine! Pictured: where it all began – Sternberg and Dietrich during production of their first collaboration together, The Blue Angel (1930).

[kittieshauntedourfantasy]

The Blue Angel is a movie /pos

[marlenedietrichuneenfantdusiecle]

Der blaue engel

[spellboundcinema]

[lilacsinthedooryard]

Gabriele Münter (1877 - 1962)

Krank (Malade) 1917

[no-more-hide]

Falling in love again Never wanted to What am I to do? Can’t help it

Love’s always been my game Play it as I may I was born that way Can’t help it

Men flock around me Like moths around a flame And if their wings burn I know I’m not to blame

Falling in love again Never wanted to What am I to do? Can’t help it

Love’s always been my game Play it as I may I was born that way Can’t help it

Men flock around me Like moths around a flame And if their wings burn I know I’m not to blame

(Frederick Hollander / Sammy Lerner)

[artdecoandmodernist]

1930 Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola in the film The Blue Angel. Costume design by Tihamer Varady. Photo by Popperfoto.

“An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.”

IMDb 7.7

[rwpohl]

der geheimnisträger, franz josef gottlieb 1975

[ulrichgebert]

Wir konnten dann sogar einen Geburtstagsfilm für Marlene anbringen, diesmal sogar endlich wieder den unter Bildungbsürgern als bedeutsam geltenden (der Bruder des Autors der Romanvorlage erhielt den Literaturnobelpreis!) und besonders wirkungsmächtigen, der aber wenn man ehrlich ist, so weit von The Devil Is A Woman auch nicht weg ist. Für das Männermordende-Vamp-Fach ist Marlenes hier letzmals verwendete Piepsestimme recht ungewöhnlich.

[queerographies]

[L'angelo azzurro][Heinrich Mann]

L'angelo azzurro di Heinrich Mann è la storia della sua perdizione, e insieme uno splendido, impietoso affresco della Germania guglielmina, con la sua ipocrisia, la sua morale doppia e contraddittoria

“L’Angelo Azzurro” è il nome del locale di varietà dove si esibisce una licenziosa ballerina di cui si innamora follemente un anziano professore di liceo, odioso e dispotico, strenuo difensore dell’ordine borghese. Il professore trasforma Rosa Fröhlich, la ballerina, in una creatura quasi ultraterrena, in cerca di riscatto, come del resto lui stesso, deriso e disprezzato dai suoi alunni, che…

[lodzianix]

der blaue engel: holy shit i was not prepared for how depressing this one was gonna get. like i watched variety and der letze mann so i kinda expected the whole shit gets bad thing but. i dont know. here its just. its the acting in the last thirty minutes or so, after immanuel realises just how much hes thrown away, after he sees his wife is just cheating on him, holy shit. holy shit. he just. i could feel the utter exhaution in him, the depression just seeping from him. and what a strong finale, what a contrast between his former life and the man he's become. re: former life: the scenes set in school felt very authentic and lively. also, i have a soft spot for prankster schoolboy types. i tend to hate them irl but in media they usually give me most fun. but generally the mise-en-scene was enchanting, with its angles and light. appealing from the first scene. uhh watching him so desperately in love was downright embarrasing, i had to just. take a moment each time. lola lola was obviously charming, i considered it a great performance. i think the film had some clever things in it, like burning the calendar pages with a hair curler, that really satisfied me. overall, great movie. nothing better than a mental breakdown to finish a tiring day.

[marlenedietrichuneenfantdusiecle]

Der Blaue Engel

[lorenzlund]

Bowl : Das Poweh + El. Hawaiian ... Aus der Schuessel! Power : (Plötzliches) Poweh bei einem Er. Mächtige, einflussreiche Männer und die Macht von selbst auch Frauen oder Frauenpower!

Friede seiner Steele!

*Seid, erweist auch ihr euch von nun an als einzig friedlich und gut!!

Der Mensch von sich aus ist gut!!

Und der (H)immel gewähre/gebe auch ihm, seiner Seele ewigen Frieden!

(Davon laufen sogar) Stengel blau(e) (an)!!

"It's all over now, (pretty) Baby Blue!!!"

("Wohnungslosen wieder öfter einheizen!"

"Der kalte Busen kommt zu euch, bringt euch gegen Mitternacht warme Getränke und wärmende Sachen!" *Kältebus(...), sacks, die Sackbearbeiterin (Es gibt sie sogar zuhauf auf Ämtern auch hierzulande, in Firmen und Behörden, oder dem Be-triebsrat!)

Edel sei der Mensch, hilfreich und gut!)

Nun hat die liebe Seele auf alle Zeiten Ruh!

[mooncustafer]

If Lola from “Lola” and Lola the showgirl from “Copacabana” were the same person, that is one wild life story

[schadenfreudich]

Yesterday I was asked what kind of movies I watch and for some reason I could only think of one, but I wasn't going to say "There is this one movie from 1930." Because while it's still hovering through my mind and I keep thinking "... man" when it gets close enough, I can't say that. That's not even a kind of movies, that's just one.