Capo
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Post by Capo on Jul 22, 2007 23:21:39 GMT
Piccadilly EA Dupont 1929 UK The manager of a popular club employs a seductive Chinese dishwasher as a new dancer. The credits are inventive and impressive and a telling exposition of setting, and the film thence goes on how it set about: visually rich and atmospheric. It fits in nicely to other silent films of the period - the progress of women, urbanisation, consumerism and Orientalism are all explored - but has a lasting, stylistic quality about it, with some beautiful techniques on display: the early sequence showing the dance routine at the club; Anna May Wong (a revelation) dancing in the kitchen; Jameson Thomas's walk (a POV tracking shot!) through a noirish bar; and the murder at the end. Ambitious in style, subject matter and behind-the-scenes credits - it shows the British film industry becoming international and eclectic in its casts and crews.
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