Create the Legend: Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives | Features | Pretty Reel
In 1974, Jonathan Rosenbaum complained that much of the writing about legendary Austrian director and actor Erich von Stroheim was caught up in the legends, in the fiction surrounding the Teutonic magpie. Nobody seemed able to write about his films as works of visual art. Of course, and Rosenbaum concedes, it’s hard because Stroheim was … Read more