Erich von Stroheim

8.8	Listal rating

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Birth Name: Erich Oswald Stroheim

Born: 22 September 1885 Died: 12 May 1957

Country of origin: Austria

Height: 5' 7"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Denise Vernac

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Movies

1. Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Rating:

8.6

830 Watched

2. Grand Illusion (1937)

Rating:

8.3

242 Watched

3. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Rating:

6.6

211 Watched

4. Intolerance (1916)

Rating:

8.1

148 Watched

5. Greed (1924)

Rating:

8.4

149 want to see

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Movies written by

1. Greed (1924)

Rating:

8.4

149 want to see

2. Foolish Wives (1922)

Rating:

7.8

57 want to see

3. The Devil Doll (1936)

Rating:

7.2

27 Watched

4. The Wedding March (1928)

Rating:

24 want to see

5. Queen Kelly (1929)

Rating:

7.2

20 Watched

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Movies directed by

1. Greed (1924)

Rating:

8.4

149 want to see

2. Foolish Wives (1922)

Rating:

7.8

57 want to see

3. The Wedding March (1928)

Rating:

24 want to see

4. Queen Kelly (1929)

Rating:

7.2

20 Watched

5. The Merry Widow (1925)

Rating:

7.2

10 Watched

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TV

1. Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)

Rating:

7.5

6 Watched

2. Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood (2005)

Rating:

4 Watched

3. Hollywood Follies (1994)

Rating:

1 Watched

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New Year's Resolutions for 2013 (21 person items)

"Greed (1924) The Merry Widow (1925) The Wedding March (1928) "

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Directors to Watch (154 person items)

"Movies ★★★★★ Greed Watch-list: Foolish Wives, Queen Kelly"

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Directors on Directors (33 person items)

"D.W. Griffith He was a pioneer of filmdom, the first man to put beauty and poetry into a cheap and tawdry sort of amusement. Lubitsch Lubitsch shows you first the king on his throne, then as he is in his bedroom. I show you the king first in his bedroom so you’ll know what he is when you see him on his throne."

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Favorite Filmmakers (53 person items)

" Greed is my favorite film. But it is most of all Stroheim who rejects photographic expressionism and the tricks of montage. In his films reality lays itself bare like a suspect confessing under the relentless examination of the commissioner of police. He has one simple rule for direction. Take a close look at the world, keep on doing so, and in the end it will lay bare for you all its cruelty and its ugliness. One could easily imagine as a matter of fact a film by Stroheim composed of a single"