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What's your favorite film by William Dieterle?

The Last Flight
1 (5.3%)
Man Wanted
0 (0%)
Jewel Robbery
0 (0%)
Fashions of 1934
0 (0%)
Fog Over Frisco
0 (0%)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1 (5.3%)
The Story of Louis Pasteur
0 (0%)
Satan Met a Lady
0 (0%)
The Great O'Malley
0 (0%)
Another Dawn
0 (0%)
The Life of Emile Zola
3 (15.8%)
Juarez
0 (0%)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
0 (0%)
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
0 (0%)
A Dispatch from Reuter's
0 (0%)
The Devil and Daniel Webster
1 (5.3%)
Tennessee Johnson
0 (0%)
Kismet
0 (0%)
I'll Be Seeing You
0 (0%)
Love Letters
0 (0%)
Portrait of Jennie
2 (10.5%)
The Accused
1 (5.3%)
Rope of Sand
0 (0%)
September Affair
0 (0%)
Dark City
0 (0%)
Boots Malone
0 (0%)
The Turning Point
0 (0%)
Salome
0 (0%)
Elephant Walk
0 (0%)
other (please specify)
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
10 (52.6%)
don't like any
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 18

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Dieterle, William
« on: October 19, 2010, 03:49:28 PM »
1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
2. The Accused

3. Rope of Sand
4. The Turning Point

5. The Devil and Daniel Webster
6. Portrait of Jennie
7. Dark City


Huh.  While putting this poll together, I realized he had a much more interesting career than I thought.  I kept coming across movies that looked like something I'd enjoy.
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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2010, 03:52:57 PM »
Haven't seen any

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2010, 04:28:32 PM »
1. The Devil and Daniel Webster
2. Portrait of Jennie
3. Hunchback
4. Midsummer Night's Dream
5. Kismet
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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2010, 05:10:44 PM »
Looking forward to Portrait of Jennie.

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2010, 03:55:36 AM »
A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is a wondrousfilm!
James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney as you've never seen them

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2010, 02:06:21 PM »
A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is a wondrousfilm!
James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney as you've never seen them
Saw the first 1/2 hour or so of this one when I was looking for a Midsummer film version to use alongside the text with my students - it wasn't quite what I wanted, so I didn't finish it - but I did like it a lot and have always meant to get back to finish it at some point.

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2010, 03:56:18 PM »
A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is a wondrousfilm!
James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney as you've never seen them
Saw the first 1/2 hour or so of this one when I was looking for a Midsummer film version to use alongside the text with my students - it wasn't quite what I wanted, so I didn't finish it - but I did like it a lot and have always meant to get back to finish it at some point.
I hope you do.
The best Midsummer's I have ever seen was in 1999, in Stratford, with Aidan McArdle as a brilliant Puck. My son was born on Shakespeare's birth/death day, so it was a birthday treat. He actually enjoyed it, amazing for a 13 year old...

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2010, 04:07:20 PM »
A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is a wondrousfilm!
James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney as you've never seen them
Saw the first 1/2 hour or so of this one when I was looking for a Midsummer film version to use alongside the text with my students - it wasn't quite what I wanted, so I didn't finish it - but I did like it a lot and have always meant to get back to finish it at some point.
I hope you do.
The best Midsummer's I have ever seen was in 1999, in Stratford, with Aidan McArdle as a brilliant Puck. My son was born on Shakespeare's birth/death day, so it was a birthday treat. He actually enjoyed it, amazing for a 13 year old...
That sounds fantastic!

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 03:30:28 PM »
The Last Flight gets my vote. Very good. Borzage-esque, too.

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Re: Director's Best Poll - William Dieterle
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2013, 10:09:41 PM »
Looking forward to Portrait of Jennie.

Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)

Wow. This was utterly intoxicating. Joseph Cotten is a painter who's out of money, out of luck, out of everything. But then he spots Jennifer Jones playing in a park, and he's suddenly inspired. Too bad she isn't what she seems.  This is cinema as a vision of romance inevitably intertwined with death, a fantasy about artistic inspiration and its limits, doom-laden, ethereal; as Cotten draws Jennie's portrait, it's like he's rushing toward the death of his own inspiration (or maybe the beginning of something else? something greater?). Mostly, I found his goddamn mysterious and romantic and spookily brilliant (that scene where Jones sings her theremin-backed song seriously gave me chills). The film's color-filtered finale is ridiculously brilliant - it reminded me of Vertigo of all things.
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