Silent Film on DVD and BD

[HerrSchreck]

But not the grimly sour bearded lady Olga Roderick in Freaks. That's her real beard. For a modern day whopper of an equivalent (she looks like Marilyn Manson with a a long goat) check out the extras on the WB disc, whereby for context a modern day bearded lady is interviewed.

[Knappen]

It's still pretty impressive:

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[HerrSchreck]

Indeed!

Actually looks just a bit like the moustache-beginnngs being grown by someone I know in a certain pic.

[Knappen]

Yes!

She would have been the center of any moustache-related party. Like the one me and my friends had this saturday - just to take an exemple completely out of the blue.

Wonder if Poil de carotte got his red hair from her.

[patrick]

Has anyone seen Tartan's new R2 release of [i4b]The Phantom Carriage[/i4b]? It's dubbed the "KTL edition" due to its soundtrack by experimental musicians KTL - I'm a fan of Stephen O'Malley (who makes up half of KTL) and so naturally I'm intrigued. It's a limited edition (I'm assuming it uses the same transfer as the earlier Tartan release) and comes with art designed by O'Malley and liner notes by the Quay Brothers.

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[Kinsayder]

There are DVD Times reviews of both Tartan Carriages: "KTL edition" and "Image Makers edition"

[quote78]Whereas the 2-DVD The Phantom Carriage / The Image Makers Edition of the film has a relatively conventional silent-movie score, this single-disc Phantom Carriage: KTL Edition has an entirely different modern experimental music score by KTL - a collaboration between the musicians Stephen O’Malley of SUNN O))) and Peter Rehberg, aka PITA – that really couldn’t be any more of a contrast to Matti Bye’s arrangement. Waves of electronic industrial drones and creaking guitar sounds seem to echo the mental states of the characters, their inner torments, confusion and mounting horror rather than follow and synchronise to external actions, pushing the events closer to acts of madness. Inevitably, this exerts a powerful presence of its own over the film, but being more abstract, it perhaps opens the film up to different interpretations, depending on the individual’s response to it. It’s evidently not going to be to everyone’s taste and may be quite overwhelming for anyone used to more traditional silent scores. Call me a wimp, but I found it most effective and less distracting when played at a lower volume than it is perhaps intended, and it does certainly have a way of keeping you closely drawn into the film on an unusual level. It is presented in full uncompressed PCM stereo, which is of CD quality. [/quote78]
I'm intrigued, but maybe not enough to buy the same film twice.

[Kinsayder]

[quote08="I"]A new French book on Marcel L'Herbier comes with a DVD of his silent [i08]Le Diable au coeur[/i08] (1928). Details here. Amazon.fr list the book here.[/quote08]
I've just received this. It's a very substantial book, beautifully illustrated (a whole chapter of colour promotional artwork). It's actually a collection of essays by different authors, arranged chronologically to cover the whole of L'Herbier's career. The editor is Laurent Veray, whose documentary on L'Herbier is on the new Carlotta [i08]L'Argent[/i08] set.

The disc is a well-stocked (but unsubbed) DVD9. The main feature is a restoration of [i08]Le Diable au coeur[/i08]:

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There are also 2 bonus features: [i08]Prométhée... banquier[/i08] (restored):

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...and L'Herbier's first film, [i08]Phantasmes[/i08] (incomplete, unrestored):

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I ordered direct from the publisher here.

[Knappen]

Wow, man.

A friend who is coming over from Caen next week has promised to search for a copy of this.

[Zazou dans le Metro]

Culled from the Facets new release list. Does anyone have any idea of provenance/quality on this 'Foreign Silent Classics' collection of Feyder/Kirsanoff/Clair/Ivens?

[Knappen]

38 minutes for Crainquebille sounds a bit short. 60 minutes for Crazy Ray sounds a bit long.

[tojoed]

For "Menilmontant"
27 minutes is about 10 minutes short of the version which appeared on Kino's Avant Garde set.

[denti alligator]

[quote68="Knappen"]38 minutes for Crainquebille sounds a bit short. 60 minutes for Crazy Ray sounds a bit long.[/quote68]
Actually, this might be the original version of Crazy Ray. the version on Criterion's Clair disc (I forget which one) is his later shortened cut.

[jsteffe]

[quote38="Zazou dans le Metro"]Culled from the Facets new release list. Does anyone have any idea of provenance/quality on this 'Foreign Silent Classics' collection of Feyder/Kirsanoff/Clair/Ivens?[/quote38]
I'd be a mite suspicious of this because: a) we don't already know who's releasing it; b) those are all PD titles and thus are more likely to be taken from old 16mm prints rather than licensed from restorations. It's probably one from of those companies like the New York Film Annex, whose output Facets routinely sells. I sure wish Facets would list the manufacturers in their catalog, but they've never made it a practice.

[HerrSchreck]

Yea zazu I'd say first of all buy this absolutely essential Jacques Feyder HVe set, which contains the restored Crainquebille (and Visages l'enfants, and L'Atalantide). Then grab the (also absolutely essential) first Kino Avant garde, which will get you the authoritative Menilmontant, as well as Regen by Joris Ivens (I am a HUGE fan of this film.. so utterly sweet and wonderful vs the usual pounding melancholia of Kirsanoff and Epstein and the rest of the impressionist gang)... not to mention all the other gems on the set.

The Crazy Ray you'd grab elsewhere, but dont waste your money on the Facets. PLEASE!

[Zazou dans le Metro]

[quoteeb="HerrSchreck"]Yea zazu I'd say first of all buy this absolutely essential Jacques Feyder HVe set,

The Crazy Ray you'd grab elsewhere, but dont waste your money on the Facets. PLEASE![/quoteeb]
Fear not mon Brave, the words 'won't' 'bargepole' and 'near' spring to mind.
A done deal on the Feyder set.
Ta mucho.

[Knappen]

French tv is showing major films by Maurice Tourneur like [bb0]Justin de Marseille[/bb0] and [bb0]La Main du diable[/bb0] this month, and are throwing in some early silents: [bb0]La Bergère d'Ivry[/bb0] (1913) (20 april), [bb0]Obsession [/bb0] (1933??)(27 april), [bb0]Figures de cire[/bb0] (1912!) (4 may)

La Bergère:
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[Tommaso]

Which reminds me: arte TV will transmit Lubitsch's "Madame Dubarry" on Monday, April 28, at 23.30 German time. I'm looking VERY much forward to this.

[HerrSchreck]

SOmeone? Rip-o-rino?

[Knappen]

[quote7f]SOmeone? Rip-o-rino?[/quote7f]
Even with a very good English-Norwegian dictionnary I can't figure out what this means. Some kind of Bronx argot?

[Knappen]

What my half Italian "uncle" was essentially trying to say was, I think, : Parfois il faut simplement qu'on [ic0]bande[/ic0].

[domino harvey]

I would love some breadsticks, thank you

[Knappen]

[quoteb3]SOmeone? Rip-o-rino?[/quoteb3]
Rip-O-rooney, peut-être?