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Blood of a PoetBlood of a Poet (1930)
Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, TheBlue Angel, The (1930) Aro Favourite
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
City GirlCity Girl (1930) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
EarthEarth (Zemlya) (1930) Recommended
Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
Films of Jean Vigo, TheFilms of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933)
Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste
Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo. A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Gangster Films, The: Three Silent Films by Yasujiro OzuGangster Films, The: Three Silent Films by Yasujiro Ozu (Walk Cheerfully, That Night's Wife, Dragnet Girl) (1930-1933)
Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Criterion collection of three silent crime films made by prolific Japanese director Ozu before his reputation for post–WWII domestic dramas was…
Hell's AngelsHell's Angels (1930) Recommended
Dir. Howard Hughes
Feat. James Hall, Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon
Still highly watchable, this early sound feature financed and 'directed' by the notorious Howard Hughes, boosts its melodramatic story of WWI heroics…
Little CaesarLittle Caesar (1930)
Dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Jr. Fairbanks, Glenda Farrell
Star–making debut for Edward G Robinson as a bullying, Al Capone–style hood, whose unscrupulous methods land him the top job. Like most…
Madam SatanMadam Satan (1930)
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Feat. Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Roland Young
A genuine oddity (and second talkie) from Cecil B. DeMille, this typically extravagant pre–Code musical comedy stars Kay Johnson as a jealous…
Murder!Murder! (1930)
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Hitchcock's second talkie is a clever whodunnit in which a juror (Marshall) in the murder trial of a young woman decides to open his own…

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