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| lady wakasa |
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Joe - well, then, go for it!
tire - this would be different from today how?
Actually, I'd be careful of selection bias. I doubt Variety would have, for example, taken on experimental / avant garde stuff or very many foreign films. (Probably wouldn't have included race pictures, either.) Plus around that time there should have been some taking-a-look-at-WWI films that, while having elements of those plotlines, also dealt with some issues pretty big in the social conscience of the time. |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:46 am |
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| Lady - I find that the films that deal with WWI tend to be about 10 years older or later. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:57 am |
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Marilyn wrote: Thanks, Lady. I still haven't managed to get around to Shadows (caught 30 minutes so far, then fell asleep).
I tried to watch Dreyer's Michael last night, but it did not engage me. It seemed very flat and bloodless, and I couldn't tell the characters apart. It was like a Russian novel, introducing too many characters in the early going. I thought the Duke was Michael for a while.
Really? After all I've heard about the movie, that's disappointing.
The Danish Film Institute (http://www.dfi.dk/) started releasing Dreyer works on DVD a couple years back (it's an ongoing series). I got really excited when I heard the announcement, and I kept checking in for months until they actually made it available. Well, when I watched the DVD (Der Ver Engang / Once Upon A Time), I was kinda shocked - something like Taming of the Shrew, where the selfish princess learns some manners, but it really borders on domestic violence in places. This was 1922 (tire - bet you didn't read that one in your reviews), but it's really uncomfortable in places. And I stopped looking for the updates to the series.
So I was holding out hope that this was a one-off, but maybe it's The Passion of Joan of Arc that's the one-off. %^{ |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:17 am |
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I jumped the gun and finally watched The Passion of Joan of Arc, for the first time, over the weekend. Looking forward to when it's discussed, because I was kind of disappointed in it.
Btw, my copy of The Kid (from the Chaplin box I'm fairly certain) looked immaculate. Really a delight to see such an old film look so clean.
Does anyone know the history for this film/print? Is it a matter of Chaplin preserving his own negatives carefully? Or was it such a popular film that it was easy to find a surviving pristine print? A lucky one-off find? Stellar refurbishing? [Inquiring minds want to know] |
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| Marilyn |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:24 am |
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If MVerdous were here, he could tell you.
Lady - Frankly, aside from Passion..., I am not a Dreyer fan. I didn't think Vampyr was all that hot, and now Michael fails to impress, though admittedly, I didn't watch the whole thing.
Gromit, one of the cool things about Passion... is that the script is taken from the real transcript of Joan of Arc's trial. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:30 am |
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gromit wrote: Looking forward to when it's discussed, because I was kind of disappointed in it.
HERESY!!!
Actually, I'll be interested to see what you didn't like about it.
gromit wrote: Btw, my copy of The Kid (from the Chaplin box I'm fairly certain) looked immaculate. Really a delight to see such an old film look so clean.
Does anyone know the history for this film/print? Is it a matter of Chaplin preserving his own negatives carefully? Or was it such a popular film that it was easy to find a surviving pristine print? A lucky one-off find? Stellar refurbishing? [Inquiring minds want to know]
I don't know the complete history, but Chaplin did keep control over his own negatives. All the restoration work was done by / in conjunction with whatever foundation exists to care for the film part of Chaplin's estate (MVerdoux will know the story on this).
The Harold Lloyd material is the same story. |
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| Shane |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:37 am |
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| Also the master himself did the rerelease work, including the music, in 1971. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:10 am |
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Yeah, restoration. Not refurbishing. 
I've been in China quite a while . . . sometimes words get lost in the brain-shuffle. |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:19 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: gromit wrote: Looking forward to when it's discussed, because I was kind of disappointed in it.
HERESY!!!
Actually, I'll be interested to see what you didn't like about it.
OMG, me, too. I couldn't take my eyes off of it. Every single frame of that film is astonishing to me. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:34 am |
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Quote: OMG, me, too. I couldn't take my eyes off of it.
Not me.
My left eye started to fall asleep.
I had to ask one of my left fingers to wake it up. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:35 am |
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| In the meantime, I'm gathering a stake and a lot of firewood. The Passion of Joan of Arc is one of my favorite films of all time. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:36 am |
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| this forum is boring like a U2 concert |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:41 am |
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| Then post something you find interesting. |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:45 am |
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| a picture of angelina jolie? |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:53 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: Then post something you find interesting.
He just can't. Haven't you figured out that ernie's marnie? So boring. |
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