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Blot, the

Philip Hubbard , Margaret McWade , Lois Weber    NR (Not Rated)   DVD
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4.0 out of 5 stars "The Female D.W. Griffith", May 10 2004
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Chip Kaufmann (Asheville, N.C. United States) - See all my reviews
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The story of Lois Weber is one of the saddest in all of early American cinema. One of two prominent women producer-directors to emerge during the silent era (the other Alice Guy Blache' has a very similar story), she was at one time considered to be the equal of D.W. Griffith and by 1916 was actually the highest paid director in the world. She had total control over her films tackling such inflammatory material as religious hypocrisy, drug addiction, birth control and abortion. Along with her husband Phillips Smalley she ran her own studio where THE BLOT was filmed. By 1921 when this film was released her career was in decline (this was her last independent production) and the studio system with its old world patriarchal attitude began to take hold creating the Hollywood of legend where most women could be stars but little else. Very few of her films survive but this is one of the best (only the controversial THE HYPOCRITES of 1915 is better in my opinion) as it shows how Weber approached filmmaking. THE BLOT's emphasis is on story and character as opposed to action or spectacle and features solid work from Claire Windsor and Louis Calhern as the young couple with a finely detailed performance from Margaret McWade as the mother. The film is well photographed with sophisticated editing for maximum impact. The bittersweet ending is well handled and stays with you long after the film is over. By the end of the decade Weber had lost her studio, her husband, and the opportunity to direct. She died in 1939 at the age of 60 and within a few years was completely forgotten along with virtually all of her films. Only in the past few years has a proper reevaluation begun to take place with three of her films coming out on video. THE BLOT remains her best known feature and is given a first class DVD release thanks to the restoration efforts of Photoplay Productions and Milestone Films. It's the least that this pioneer woman director deserves. Give it a try along with anything else you can find by her and discover why Lois Weber was once known to her contemporaries as "the female D. W. Griffith" then ask yourself why you haven't heard of her.
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3.0 out of 5 stars just ok, Mar 14 2004
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Beth "bethiejw2" (Mesa, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This may have been made by one of the first woman directors Lois Weber but it is not flawless. Too many characters are thrown in the beginning of the picture making it hard to follow along. The pace doesn't pick up until the middle of the picture. The leading actress Claire Windsor who plays the poor girl shows some promise. The one thing I liked about the picture was how the neighbor next door started to treat the family with warmth, only after they apologized and made themselves look inferior to her. It showed how people are. More like 2.5. I liked the over dramatic scene with the chicken. Although several sites list this as being fifty so minutes, it's more around 80.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful window into a different world, Jan 25 2004
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Michael Gebert (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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Lois Weber gets a lot of attention these days as the preeminent American woman director of the silent era, much of which overlooks the fact that most of her films were made in collaboration with her husband Philips Smalley, and we don't really know who wore the jodhpurs in the family. The Blot, however, makes a strong case for having been directed by a woman or at least strongly shaped by the women who wrote it, because the most keenly felt thing in the picture by far is the quiet despair of the housewife trying to keep house with too few resources. At those moments, a simple message picture about why college professors should be paid more than subsistence wages (apparently mainly so they aren't quite so envious of the spoiled young bloods who take their classes) rises to a Stroheimian, even Zolaesque level of intensity in its depiction of the bitter effects of poverty on the spirit.

A striking example of the socially-minded silent (which producer Kevin Brownlow documented in his landmark book Behind the Mask of Innocence), very different from the usual image of silent escapism or melodrama-not to mention proof that Louis Calhern really was young enough once to play an undergraduate.

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