It is one of the first horror anthology films and boasts spectacular set designs for the three stories. WAXWORKS is not a great film but it is an important one. The accompanying piano score is effective especially in the IVAN sequence. It was restored from two differnt prints and has been properly tinted. This is the first time this film has ever looked this good. He would give up acting and become a major director in Hollywood during the 30's and 40's. The male lead is William Dieterle who plays the writer. The longest sequence features Emil Jannings in an Arabian Nights setting which is more comic in tone and surprisingly erotic thanks to Olga Belajeff who plays the romantic lead in all three stories. Are they scary? No, but at least one of them (IVAN THE TERRIBLE with Conrad Veidt) is genuinely disturbing while another (SPRING HEELED JACK with Werner Krauss) boasts the most expressionistic sets since CABINET OF DR CALIGARI (also in this set of four new releases from Kino International). There are three episodes involving figures in a wax museum which are linked by the framing story of a writer writing about them. As is often the case with most anthology films the parts are greater than the whole. Now that it is here as part of a quartet of restored German Horror Classics, there is cause for much rejoicing. 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the U.S."Paul Leni's WAXWORKS has taken its own sweet time in coming before the public in presentable form.1st Chicago International Latino Theater Festival (1).183 years after the famous 1836 battle (1).16th Century Countess Elizabeth Bathory (1).12th Annual Sketchbook: Reincarnate (1).#discount #Chicago #LUZIACHI #LastCall (1).“SLIPKNOT Live at Knotfest” on demand (1).“MY LITTLE PONY” CULT COMEDY THE ANTELOPE PLAY (1).“It’s a Hit” Live Experience is SOLD OUT (1).“IN MEMORY OF HOWLIN WOLF” (AIN’T NO CRYING THE BLUES) (1).“I’M NOT A COMEDIAN… I’M LENNY BRUCE” (1)."I Can’t Believe They Wendt There: The Roast of George Wendt" (1).INCOMING: Nathan Graham, The Pinkerton Raid and Ni.FLASH GIVEAWAY: WIN Tickets To The Chicago Circus.Congo Square Theatre Hosts 'Celebration of Healing.THE WHITE CITY: AN AUDIBLE EXHIBITION ON H.H.REVIEW: TINA- THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at the James.49th Anniversary Jeff Awards for Non-Equity Theate.REVIEW: Carmen at Lyric Opera On Stage Through Apr.REVIEW: Lyric Opera World Premiere of PROXIMITY On.Appalachian songs, bluegrass and country patterns cemented in her mind, and perhaps most importantly - she inhaled the great spirit of rock and roll. But at the same time, you don’t trust anyone.’ While the hardness of the streets broke her down, another world picked her up. In her words, ‘You have to trust everyone in that world… You’re all fighting for the same thing. She became a living paradox, somewhere between running from the law and running from the normality of a Midwestern suburban lifestyle. She made money playing music to anyone who would listen, from the subways of New York City to the streets of Ohio. At a young age, she lived in her car in cities all around the county, she hiked the Appalachian Trail, hopped freight trains. It was this upbringing along with a fascination with alternative culture that led her towards the great American love affair, the counterbalance to the American Dream. Carroll was born in Chicago to a rather normal American family brought up as a typical, middle class kid.
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