Piccadilly [re-release]

Name: Piccadilly [re-release]
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: January 23, 2004
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 89

2004

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Sono Art-World Wide Pictures | Release Date: January 23, 2004 | TV-PG

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)

Director: Ewald André Dupont

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 92 min

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David Sterritt

Wong has acquired a loyal cult following over the years, and Dupont's exquisitely filmed episodes show why. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

This remarkable British silent (1929) is special in many ways. Read full review

J. Hoberman

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. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

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. Read full review

Janice Page

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 Read full review

William Arnold

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. Read full review

Marta Barber

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. Read full review

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