“These are a group of films I’ve not seen, Josef von Sternberg: Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York. I love Josef von Sternberg, and I love Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. I don’t think she’s in any of these, but that German expressionist aesthetic, the way of the shadow, the early photography, it was just such an important benchmark in underground dreaming.”
