Grand Hotel (Snap case)
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Movie Reviews of Grand Hotel (Snap case)
Movie Review: Radiant glamour and dazzling exuberance !
Summary: 5 Stars
Grand Hotel is a classic whose genuine glamour, artistic refinement and admirable good taste are still motive of discussion and admiration all over the world.
The agile camerawork, the perfect illumination, superb edition, level performances and rhythm are easily carved in relief since the first shot.
Greta Garbo in her role of the Russian dancer would seem to have anticipated her own signature for the posterity with that emblematic statement "I want to be alone" . On the other hand we may watch a raising promise of the acting as Joan Crawford, besides the consecrated Lionel and John Barrymore.
A film that exudes that inimitable touch of class that has permitted it to live into a fundamental region of our affective memory with almost genetic profile.
Don't miss one of the most relevant Academy Award films ever made.
Movie Review: Grand Old Film Seems Fresh
Summary: 5 Stars
This film holds up quite well after nearly 75 years, and after watching the first 1/2 hour, you'll know why: timeless acting, a literate sceenplay and beautiful b/w cinematography. The ensemble acting is terrific with many great nuanced performances, with no one performance *stealing* the film but gaining poignancy from playing off one another. The screenplay seems to have been written by someone who has known life, especially life among the rich and famous, and the film has enough depictions of the suffering rich to make F.Scott Fitzgerald proud. There are many famous lines which you will recognize, including the famous, *I vant to be alone* by Greta Garbo.
This is one of my favorite golden age films, and you can't say you know films without seeing it at least once.
Movie Review: NOT THE BATES MOTEL
Summary: 5 Stars
Perhaps the greatest assemblage of acting talent ever seen in one film. Yet,again, millions of supposed "movie addicts" have never even heard of this movie, much less seen it! It's been reviewed positively to the hilt over the years, yet the basic ignorance seems to be building.Just like Latin, history seems to have become a "dead language", interesting only to hopeless reactionaries. Director Goulding had none of the color, sight tricks, or background music available in 2007, but the character of the story and man's weaknesses and prejudices will always be topical. See the film before time runs out on you.Movie Review: MGM at its best!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to know about Hollywood splendor... this is your movie. The "golden age of the movies" greatest studio was the MGM and Mr. Mayer and company put all the best in this brilliant adaptation of Vicki Baum novel. I love every frame of it. The art deco, the music, the stars... Oh, my God! This is cinema! The cast is superb. The Barrymore brothers, the little Crawford (then), the great Beery. And Lewis Stone, what a kind of gentleman and good actor. And Garbo, of course. When she is sad, you are sad. When she is happy, you are happy. And when she said: "The sun!". Is summer for us.Movie Review: Grand Hotel
Summary: 5 Stars
MGM-- the most prestigious studio from Hollywoods golden age-- paints on the gloss for this first class ensemble production. Garbo and John Barrymore stand out as the doomed lovers, as does his brother, Lionel, who plays a timid and terminally ill clerk on his last spree. Grand Hotel was among the first MGM sound dramas to showcase two things: First, the studios unmatched ability to adapt serious literary material to motion pictures; and second, to attract and retain star talent. The movie still dazzles nearly seventy-five years after its release.