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- 2004
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- Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
- 2004
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- Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
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Summary E.A. (Varieté) Dupont's Piccadilly, the 1929 silent masterpiece brilliantly restored by the British Film Institute, stars the sultry Anna May Wong in her greatest role. (Milestone Films)
Directed By: Ewald André Dupont
Written By: Arnold Bennett
- 2004
- Passed
- Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
- 2004
- Passed
- Sono Art-World Wide Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
Piccadilly [re-release]
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Summary E.A. (Varieté) Dupont's Piccadilly, the 1929 silent masterpiece brilliantly restored by the British Film Institute, stars the sultry Anna May Wong in her greatest role. (Milestone Films)
Directed By: Ewald André Dupont
Written By: Arnold Bennett
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
89
100% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Wong has acquired a loyal cult following over the years, and Dupont's exquisitely filmed episodes show why.
This remarkable British silent (1929) is special in many ways.
Wong is sensationally expressive and projects a modern, coolly appraising sexuality. Visually eloquent and often dazzling, the movie is no less terrific. Piccadilly is both evidence of silent cinema at its rudely aborted peak and Wong's frustrated potential to have been among its greatest stars.
German emigre Dupont directs all this with the style, flair and tension he brought to his 1925 Emil Jannings classic, "Variety." But it is Wong, shimmering with charisma, who gives Piccadilly its unforgettable center.
As casually insensitive and careless as you might expect from a film of this era, but it's also surprisingly crafty about finding ways to incite discussion
I found it a surprisingly elegant entertainment: fast-paced, cogently written (by noted English author Arnold Bennett), well-cast (including a bit by a young Charles Laughton) and stylishly photographed on a gallery of stunning deco sets.
Film students should be thankful that companies such as Milestone Film & Video have taken up the distribution and restoration of important silent films, and that universities and museums have decided to screen these obscure classics.
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Production Company
British International Pictures (BIP)
Release Date Jan 23, 2004
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Passed
Tagline JUST AS GOD MADE HER She Loved, and Loving She Gave-Her Heart, Her Soul, to a Man Who Played, and Laughed, and Loved Another. A SOUND PICTURE (Print Ad-Free Lance-Star, ((Fredericksburg, Va.)) 24 August 1929)
Awards
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
