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The Scarlet EmpressOther

by Josef von Sternberg

Who uses, recommends or left The Scarlet Empress, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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American actress, director and documentarian, blacklisted in the 1950s; won the Academy Award for Shampoo (1975) and directed Down and Out in America (1986), an Oscar-winning documentary.
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Her films with von Sternberg are dreamy, and I’d like to think their collaboration was as well. I think of her gowns in his beyond meticulous lighting in The Scarlet Empress .

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lee Grant, the entry for The Scarlet Empress.

2024-07-17·criterion.com ↗

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