
Struggling artist Ned Templeton and his wife Joan are leading a poverty-stricken life in Paris. Threatened by starvation and eviction, Joan is forced to become a prostitute.


A charcoal smudge of moonlight slants across the opening iris shot and already Burnt Wings announces itself as something fiercer than your average Jazz-Age weepie. Christy Cabanne, a Griffith apprentice with a nose for moral sulfur, orchestrates this 1920 cautionary tale like a fever dream in two movements: the first,...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Christy Cabanne

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" A charcoal smudge of moonlight slants across the opening iris shot and already Burnt Wings announces itself as something fiercer than your average Jazz-Age weepie. Christy Cabanne, a Griffith apprentice with a nose for moral sulfur, orchestrates this 1920 cautionary tale like a fever dream in two movements: the first, a frost-bitten Parisian nightmare shot in slate grays; the second, a chromium Manhattan fantasy that reeks of champagne and turpentine. The pivot between those worlds is Joan Temp..."
Christy Cabanne, Percy Heath, Hal Hoadley, Bayard Veiller
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