Although movies are often called a director's medium, they're a collaborative art, requiring cameramen, editors, writers, cinematographers, lighting technicians, set and costume designers, composers, ...

Josef von Sternberg is a name synonymous with cutting-edge cinema and stylishly poignant storytelling, which has echoed throughout the past century as one of the greatest ever examples of the medium.

Josef von Sternberg, born Jonas Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-born film director and is among the few whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to ...

As Ben Sachs noted last week, the Music Box has officially begun a three-month retrospective of the films both starring actress Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef von Sternberg. If that wasn’t ...

The transition from silent films to the “talkies” was difficult for many in the motion picture industry. For many (particularly those in front of the camera), it would result in the death of their ...

In the early studio era, when many film directors adopted imperial pretensions and ruled by fear, nobody had more pretensions or was more feared than Josef von Sternberg. He was a man who kept large, ...

In the popular imagination, the director Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) will forever be linked with Marlene Dietrich. He made her an international star with “The Blue Angel” (1930) and worked with ...

Best extra: An extensive, 96-page booklet that includes essays about each film, notes on the scores, an excerpt from von Sternberg’s autobiography and Ben Hecht’s original story for “Underworld” JOSEF ...

Grades: Underworld: B+; The Last Command: A; The Docks Of New York: A Inevitably, any mention of Vienna-born, New York-raised director Josef von Sternberg is tied to his iconic star and muse Marlene ...