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Film · Germany · 1925

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The Joyless Street

46Watch it awake.

Not a family film: hunger, inflation, and a butcher who has the food.

The review

Vienna after the war, on a street where inflation and hunger are the plot. Women live there. A butcher has the food. Some of them pay in ways that are not money. Greta Garbo. Pabst. Adult. Not a family film, and not a Hollywood gross. I will not describe the bargains, and I will not let her face turn the street into a glamour still.

What was left after the war was inflation and hunger. The man with the food is not a sweetheart. Adults only, and only adults who can hear that some payments were not money and then drop it. Her name is why the print still gets picked up. The street is why it stays off while any child in this house is awake.

Journal

Keep The Joyless Street in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

Consider this

Uptown Girls

58 instead of 46

Uptown Girls is still a drama film, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is stewardship: The charge is a child who needed one reliable adult.

The eight

5
Industry
Inflation and hunger leave the food in the butcher's hands.
4
Household
Women on the street, and the picture is not a family film.
3
Piety
Hunger pushes payments that are not money; conscience does not stop them.
4
Courage
They stay alive on a street where a butcher holds the food.
8
Republic
Postwar Vienna leaves women to inflation, hunger, and one butcher.
4
Temperance
The poverty is the plot, not an invitation to want the bargains.
7
Truth
Inflation and hunger are the plot, and some pay without money.
2
Stewardship
After the war, what is left on that street is hunger.

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Film · United Artists · 1964

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A Hard Day's Night

46Watch it awake.

Watch it awake, or put it on for the songs and the work. Nobody is asked to become worse.

The review

They have a television appearance to make, a train to catch, and an afternoon in which the city wants pieces of them. The jokes are at the expense of managers, advertisers, and anyone who needs the boys to stand still and be a product. The songs are the work, performed as work. Nobody is asked to betray a friend. Nobody is asked to be cruel to a girl. For a phenomenon as large as this one, that is a remarkable restraint, and I will credit it.

A family can put it on. The limit is that it is a day, not a life, and a day of fame is a thin diet if it becomes the only picture of adulthood in the house. Watch the studio session and ask who in the room was doing a job seriously. Include them. The screaming outside is the decade. The work inside is the part worth keeping. A very large cultural fact of 1964. The fact is not a reason. The songs and the decency are.

Journal

Keep A Hard Day's Night in the record.