Thanks so much!

I always just wait until I receive the DVD, then scan the cover and upload it to DVDAF (and do the whole title-entry dance at that time). Patience is a virtue!

300x425 or higher should do it! Thanks!

I'll try to get you something. What size do you need?

Certainly, I just ordered the DVD, I use

http://www.dvdaf.com/

to track my DVD Collection online so my friends can see what I've got. The DVD isn't in the database and to add it, I need to include the cover art, so it can show up in the database like so...



or the people that run the site won't allow it. All the pictures I can find on the internet do not reach their minimum size requirements. If you could possibly scan the cover image into your computer so I can put include it in my submission to get the dvd listed on the site?

I cannot blow something up, they do not allow that either. Thanks!

Online collection organizer?

I would like to help, but I'm not sure what you need this for..

Some site engine doesn't like the image you want to upload? You can blow it up a bit in Gimp or Photoshop...

Do any of you who own the NFI Bergenstoget plyndret inatt release happen to have a scanner or a bigger pic of the cover? I'm currently trying to add the title to my online collection organizer site but they refuse to accept it until I can find a better quality picture, and all the images I can find are too small.

Comments on Raro's Fräulein Else release: Here

Did anyone make a purchase of this? Just wondering if the intertitles it has are the original German? (I'm presuming it does have intertitles)

That's correct: In a strict sense, the Coffanetto Buñuel (LAS HURDES, L'AGE D'OR and UN CHIEN ANDALOU) appears to be the sole other silent programme on their roster. If we flex our criteria a bit to permit neo-silents, then the Silent Warhol set (BLOW JOB, MARIO BANANA 1, MARIO BANANA 2, EMPIRE, KISS) and a Svankmajer Box would qualify as well, but I'd say that's about it.

I can't swear upon it, but I think "Fräulein Else" is so far the only silent film with Raro, if you perhaps exclude some occasional avantgarde film.

Do Raro do any other early silents on DVD? Their advanced search system isn't very helpful in answering this.

Great find, Tommaso! Great price at DVDVillage (13.90 EUR +sh).

It looks like Raro Video have just released a dvd edition of Paul Czinner's wonderful "Fräulein Else". Music is by the excellent Italian indie band Marlene Kuntz.

Thanks, and with that I just picked up the Kino disc on amazon.ca

See this thread

Anyone know anything about this UK release of
Seven Chances?

It's from a company called Cornerstone Media, but I have no idea what kind of reputation they have.

It's not that well known outside a small group of cinephiles. Quite frankly, most Norwegians do not know much about Norwegian cinema. But this release is a very bold statement indeed. If this is the future of DVD releases of Norwegian films, they will be better known in the future. Which they deserve. Norwegian cinematic productions are Better than their Reputation, if I may say so.

I've only taken it once, and that was nearly 30 years ago, but it has left a sufficient impression on me that I'm dying to see this film.

Seen and hugely enjoyed the film. I have taken the train to Bergen numerous times and been skiing in the mountains where the action takes place, so it would be hard for me not to like these 69 pulpy minutes of silent entertainment.

Being Norwegian it typically gains in freshness what it lacks in sophistication.

But what moral ambiguity at stake here! Not strange the film was banned in Sweden at its release. I won't get further into this to avoid spoilers.

Here is the director in an important role in the film. He died the following year:



Here is the heroine, who would have been a good candidate for my Norwegian silent starlets contest last year.



And here's the mise-en-abîme of the film. Take that, Jean-Luc!

OK, so Tommaso was right in thinking that the prospect of a bilingual 230 page "booklet" sounded unbelievable. It's in Norwegian with a 5 page synopsis in English and the same length in German. Also, the essay is not what I said it was: It's about the film in question and movies as popular culture in the end of the silent area.

I'm in a hurry right now, but will give you some samples. First the package you are getting (I'm keeping it hidden as you might not want to spoil the surprise as you should be putting this on your X-mas list):



The DVD menu where you choose the language you want for your title cards:



The film:








Will report back later when I have seen the film.

Typically there is no talk about Brudeferden i Hardanger, which seemed to fall out if the sky a couple of years back.
Would really like to see Madame visits Oslo too.

An introductory chapter in a very short book. No silents were mentioned in Cowie´s book on Norwegian cinema from 1971-1999. Here he briefly discusses five other silents: Fante-Anne, Kristine Valdresdatter, Trollelgen, Madame besøker Oslo, and Pan.

Why is this film from 1928 mentionned in a book about Norwegian cinema from 1990 onwards?