Now Over 5500 Reviews and (near) Daily Updates!

WELCOME! Use the search engines on this site (or your own off-site engine of choice) to gain easy access to the complete MAKSQUIBS Archive; more than 5500 posts and counting. (New posts added every day or so.)

You can check on all our titles by typing the Title, Director, Actor or 'Keyword' you're looking for in the Search Engine of your choice (include the phrase MAKSQUIBS) or just use the BLOGSPOT.com Search Box at the top left corner of the page.

Feel free to place comments directly on any of the film posts and to test your film knowledge with the CONTESTS scattered here & there. (Hey! No Googling allowed. They're pretty easy.)

Send E-mails to MAKSQUIBS@yahoo.com . (Let us know if the TRANSLATE WIDGET works!) Or use the Profile Page or Comments link for contact.

Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

TARTUFFE (1926)

It’s produced by Erich Pommer, directed by F. W. Murnau, adapted by Carl Mayer, lensed by Karl Freund and features Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss & Lil Dagover, but don’t get your hopes up. This Reader's Digest version of the great Moliere comedy on clerical hypocrisy, set within a parallel story of little interest, only proves the adage about the German sense of humor (or lack thereof). Horror, suspense, melodrama & piteous cruelty responded brilliantly to the stylings & odd exaggerations of German Expressionist as practised at the UFA studios, but comedy withered under its sway. No wonder Lubitsch left in 1922.

No comments: