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Friday May 23rd at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood: Madam Satan!
"MADAM SATAN, 1930, Warner Bros., 116 min. "Who wants to go to Hell with Madam Satan?" Epic filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille starts small with an awkward bedroom farce focusing on wealthy Kay Johnson as she patiently deals with her playboy husband, Reginald Denny, and his rebrobate pal Roland Young. But before long, Johnson has had enough and decides to become a sexy siren to try to counteract Denny’s all-too-frequent extra marital flings. As Johnson’s moral stock plummets, DeMille throws in bizarre, surreal musical numbers as well as a climactic masked ball on a zeppelin that culminates in a huge air disaster! "The second half of ‘Madam Satan’ is one of the great examples of weirdness in American pop cinema: a twilight zone wherein musical comedy meets disaster epic, all designed and costumed…with the farthest out Art Deco affectation." -- Richard Barrios; "Cecil B. De Mille's second talkie was a bizarre amalgam of his silent era domestic farces, his sinful spectacles and the new craze for musicals. He would never make another picture like this one…wait a minute, there is no other picture like this one!" – Moviediva.com More on this film. NOT ON DVD"
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2008/Egyptian/Pre-Code_Films_2008.htm#MADAM%20SATAN
Tony
"MADAM SATAN, 1930, Warner Bros., 116 min. "Who wants to go to Hell with Madam Satan?" Epic filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille starts small with an awkward bedroom farce focusing on wealthy Kay Johnson as she patiently deals with her playboy husband, Reginald Denny, and his rebrobate pal Roland Young. But before long, Johnson has had enough and decides to become a sexy siren to try to counteract Denny’s all-too-frequent extra marital flings. As Johnson’s moral stock plummets, DeMille throws in bizarre, surreal musical numbers as well as a climactic masked ball on a zeppelin that culminates in a huge air disaster! "The second half of ‘Madam Satan’ is one of the great examples of weirdness in American pop cinema: a twilight zone wherein musical comedy meets disaster epic, all designed and costumed…with the farthest out Art Deco affectation." -- Richard Barrios; "Cecil B. De Mille's second talkie was a bizarre amalgam of his silent era domestic farces, his sinful spectacles and the new craze for musicals. He would never make another picture like this one…wait a minute, there is no other picture like this one!" – Moviediva.com More on this film. NOT ON DVD"
http://www.americancinematheque.com/archive1999/2008/Egyptian/Pre-Code_Films_2008.htm#MADAM%20SATAN
Tony
