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Film · UFA · 1926

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Faust

29Leave it.

A scholar sells his soul, a girl pays, and the devil uses the town as a toy.

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The review

Jannings as the devil stopped being fun about ten minutes in. A scholar bargains his soul. A girl pays for it. Murnau, German, 1926, not an American gross. An older teen can watch. Not a family night. The bargain is the plot. I won't go into what happens to Gretchen, and you shouldn't either.

The town is a toy the devil plays with. That stayed with me more than the magic. He wants something other than a scholar's life, and a person who never signed is who pays. Say that before anyone collects Jannings as a favorite face. The spectacle is real. The deal is rotten, and the film is not confused about who gets the bill.

Journal

Keep Faust in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Practical Magic 2

40 instead of 29

Practical Magic 2 is still a fantasy film, and it scores 40 instead of 29. What you gain is household: Sisters remain the promise.

The eight

4
Industry
A scholar's work is what he bargains away when he sells the soul.
4
Household
A girl who never signed the bargain is the one who pays for it.
2
Piety
He bargains his soul; conscience does not stop the scholar from signing.
2
Courage
The risk is not taken for another person; a girl pays the scholar's want.
2
Republic
The town is a toy the devil plays with, not a place owed any keeping.
3
Temperance
Jannings's devil is the show, and the bargain keeps feeding that want.
4
Truth
The devil's bargain holds, and a girl who didn't sign is who pays.
2
Stewardship
A town used as a toy, and a bill left on a girl who never agreed.

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Film · 20th Century Fox · 1963

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Cleopatra

29Leave it.

The procession is the product. The affair is the plot, and the plot is not a life.

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The review

It cost enough to nearly sink a studio, and the cost is not a quality. A queen manages Rome by managing two men, and the film is interested in the managing as a pageant and a love affair. The processions are long because the processions are what the money bought. I will not pretend the length is grandeur. Length is what you get when nobody was willing to cut the entrance.

The marriages in the way of the affair are treated as furniture. That is the part a house should not absorb. Adults can look at the barge as a document of a certain kind of Hollywood excess and then leave it. Do not sit a young person down in front of four hours in which the lesson is that history is a romance with better curtains. The crowds came. The number is not the crowds.