Silent Film on DVD

patricio00 · **Joined:** Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:58 pm **Location:** Mexico

Someone should get this guy to score a silent film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZdggNUvq0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2A5Gno7 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1u0VIBU ... re=related

otis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:43 am

Jonathan Rosenbaum mentions a new Norwegian DVD of Pudovkin's Mother in his Cinema Scope column:

Quote:

while attending the Tromsø film festival’s screening of The End of St. Petersburg in January, I picked up their own DVD of a restoration from the Norwegian National Library that screened at their festival last year. The musical accompaniment in both cases is (or was) industrial electronic music, which for me is anachronistic in the worst postmodernist fashion. I have to confess that the young audience I saw St. Petersburg with seemed positively delighted with this clunky and seemingly random clatter—to the point where they seemed to regard Pudovkin, not the music, as the accompaniment to this main attraction. But at least on the DVD of Mother you have the option of shutting this noise off.

There's a clip on YouTube which shows extracts from a screening, but it's hard to get a sense of the print quality. Does anyone have the DVD?

Ann Harding · **Joined:** Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:26 am

Yes I did! I personally enjoyed very much the two Franklin comedies very expertly played by Colman and Talmadge who are a brilliant comedy team. But don't expect a great image quality. The prints have quite a bit of decomp. But, that shouldn't stop you from buying them. I think these two comedies are extremely enjoyable and well directed. (The Norma Talmadge set is also worth a look for Brown's Kiki.)

CRT · **Posted:** Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:37 pm

Has anyone picked up Kino's recently released Constance Talmadge double feature of "Her Night of Romance/Her Sister from Paris", I'm strongly inclined to pick it up as I do love a good silent comedy.

perkizitore · **Posted:** Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:28 pm

Does the Eureka DVD of Storm Over Asia uses the same master as the Image DVD?

otis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:43 am

Thanks for the swift reply, markhax. Guess I'll save my money for the forthcoming Barnets from Edition Filmmuseum...

markhax · **Joined:** Sat Oct 20, 2007 5:42 pm

otis wrote:

Any word on the Absolut Medien DVD of Storm over Asia that came out a couple of years ago? How does it compare to the Image version? I'm hoping that it's as gorgeous as their disc of Dovzhenko's Earth, which I recently bought. Can anyone confirm?

I own both. I bought EARTH and was so blown away by its superiority to the Image Entertainment DVD that I bought the Absolut-Medien STORM OVER ASIA expecting a similar difference. The Absolut disc is clearly from the same master as the Image disc, with the same damage. At times it appears the contrast has been boosted so that the image has marginally more definition, but it's nothing revelatory like the EARTH resto. The Absolut disc has the original Russian intertitles (German subtitles only) and a new score by Bernd Schultheis. But I like Timothy Brock's score on the Image disc much better. In this case, I am not sure the Absolut disc merits the investment.

otis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:43 am

Any word on the Absolut Medien DVD of Storm over Asia that came out a couple of years ago? How does it compare to the Image version? I'm hoping that it's as gorgeous as their disc of Dovzhenko's Earth, which I recently bought. Can anyone confirm?

CRT · **Posted:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:23 pm

Thanks so much! =D>

Knappen · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:00 am

fiddlesticks · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:39 pm

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!

CRT · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:09 pm

300x425 or higher should do it! Thanks!

Knappen · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:55 pm

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

CRT · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:46 pm

Knappen wrote:

Online collection organizer?

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

You can also blow up the other images a bit.

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!

Knappen · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:27 pm

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...

CRT · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:40 pm

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.

TMDaines · **Posted:** Fri Jan 22, 2010 7:37 pm

Comments on Raro's Fräulein Else release: Here

TMDaines · **Posted:** Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:32 pm

Tommaso wrote:

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.

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)

Hofmeister · **Posted:** Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:39 pm

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.

Tommaso · **Joined:** Fri May 19, 2006 10:09 am

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.

TMDaines · **Posted:** Sat Dec 19, 2009 9:18 am

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

Hofmeister · **Posted:** Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:58 pm

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

Tommaso · **Joined:** Fri May 19, 2006 10:09 am

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.

myrnaloyisdope · **Joined:** Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:41 pm

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

Peacock · **Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:39 pm

myrnaloyisdope wrote:

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

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