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Gordon · #126 Post by **Gordon** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:24 pm

I have been meaning to see South for over a year now, as I too have a fascination for the expedition and from what I can gather, the footage is very powerful.

HerrSchreck · #127 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:14 am

Not to mention the sublime cinema poems by Peter Delpeut, Lyrical Nitrate & THE FORBIDDEN QUEST, which has some of the most unbelievably hallucinatory footage from the Shackleton expedition and other ANtarctic footage from the ten's & teens linked in together to create the wildest mockumentary you'll ever see.

Plus LYRICAL NITRATE, midbendingly beautiful. The disc has room for improvement, but when the poetry rations are being handed out in these huge dollops, I put the red pencil away.

Kirkinson · #128 Post by **Kirkinson** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:00 pm

Ruscico is releasing a new edition of Aelita, Queen of Mars on February 10th. The NTSC version is up for pre-order at RussianDVD.com (a very trustworthy seller if you don't already know). So far there's no mention of it whatsoever on Ruscico's web site, but they'll surely have a PAL version on sale once they've updated.

Keaton · #129 Post by **Keaton** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:15 pm

Hi,

Can anyone tell me something about the Humberto Mauro Collection? I found these three DVD's of his silent work, but I don't see anything about English sub- intertitles:

Braza dormida
Thesouro Perdido
Sangue mineiro

Thanks!

HerrSchreck · #130 Post by **HerrSchreck** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:18 pm

Take a look at these caps from the new DFI release of Dreyer's LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK!. Despite a pinch of chroma noise this looks absolutely fabulous, up to snuf with the print seen in MY METIER. Be tossing the old Image disc soon.

Keaton · #131 Post by **Keaton** » Tue May 08, 2007 11:28 am

True Heart Suse comes with Hoodoo Inn in august, according to the Image site.

denti alligator · Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:44 pm

Just stuck the Arte edition of EARTH in to find that it's horribly interlaced. A shame for such a nice transfer.

malcolm1980 · #133 Post by **malcolm1980** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:41 am

HerrSchreck wrote:have come to a screeching halt after three straight years of collector's absolute paradise.... but silent comedy is not what I'm talking about.

Well its sure what I'M talkin' bout!

yee-haa!

Anyone know when Erich Von Stroheim's Greed is going to get the first-class DVD treatment. I saw that movie sometime ago on LaserDisc during the Death Valley climax, I almost felt the excruciating heat even though I was watching in an airconditioned room.

Gofter · #134 Post by **Gofter** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:18 pm

Nosferatu from Transit Film is up for pre-order on Amazon.de

According to Transit Film the release date is [b2f]October 16th[/b2f].

justeleblanc · #135 Post by **justeleblanc** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:36 pm

How is this print different from the Kino edition, aside from the transfer?

BenCheshire · #136 Post by **BenCheshire** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:27 am

Did you enjoy saying "yee-haa"? Malcolm? I think maybe I should change my avatar, cause somebody clever manually collapses two posts by the same person next to each other, and it seems having the same avatar is tantamount to having the same brain in this virtual world...

malcolm1980 · #137 Post by **malcolm1980** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:42 am

BenCheshire wrote:Did you enjoy saying "yee-haa"? Malcolm? I think maybe I should change my avatar, cause somebody clever manually collapses two posts by the same person next to each other, and it seems having the same avatar is tantamount to having the same brain in this virtual world...

Oh, my. I didn't notice that. I should change my avatar.

BenCheshire · #138 Post by **BenCheshire** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:58 am

nah, u were here first. One second...

You reminded me to stick my copy of Greed on again last night. I've got a 2-VHS 75th anniversary TCM copy, and yeah, its so long! I've gotta admit I was curious to see the stills of the infamously deleted scenes, but there's just so many... I'd love to get my hands on a copy of the pre-restoration 2-hour version... Just so I can watch continuous moving images when I stick it on...

Tommaso · #139 Post by **Tommaso** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:00 am

justeleblanc wrote:How is this print different from the Kino edition, aside from the transfer?

If this is indeed the long-announced Transit edition: Original score and German titles! And probably a lot of extras. JOY!!

Gofter · #140 Post by **Gofter** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 4:43 pm

Gofter wrote:Nosferatu from Transit Film is up for pre-order on Amazon.de

According to Transit Film the release date is [b1d]October 16th[/b1d].

It's a Steelbook

moviefan · #141 Post by **moviefan** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:24 pm

BenCheshire wrote:You reminded me to stick my copy of Greed on again last night.

Warner would hopefully include the shorter version as well when they release Greed on dvd. No date has been given for the release.

BenCheshire · #142 Post by **BenCheshire** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:30 am

Yeah. Hope so. I mean, I know I sound like a philistine, but I think the still images are much more interesting if you've seen the cut version first, so you think of it as a proper movie, because only the theatrical release will ever play like a real movie, the other is just a projection of a hypothesised movie. So I really hope that shorter version is preserved.

I've just been enjoying a number of Edwin S. Porter's movies from the 1900's on youtube and I've discovered there is no DVD collection which has lovingly gathered and restored a hundred of his films. Does anyone know how many are available and if anyone is putting something together?

I recommend "what happened in the tunnel" as a starting point.

ptmd · #143 Post by **ptmd** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:51 am

A substantial chunk of Porter's films can be found on the indispensable 4-disc "Edison: Invention of the Movies" set that Kino put out. It has 140 films, and at least half of them were directed by Porter. The prints are either from the Museum of Modern Art film collection or the Library of Congress, so you will almost certainly never see them looking better than on these DVDs.

The set also includes several interesting and informative interviews with a variety of scholar and archivists, but the best resources on Porter are Charles Musser's documentary film "Before the Nickeloden" (1982) and the book of the same name that he wrote in conjunction with it. They should be available through your local library.

Nihonophile · #144 Post by **Nihonophile** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:58 pm

The Unknown, 49 minutes or 63? Whats the deal with the TCM version in comparison to the full(?) film.

Keaton · #145 Post by **Keaton** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 8:27 am

Hi,

Amazon lists Little Church Around the Corner and Sea Hawk for august...anyone heard of the company? What can we expect?

Thanks,

Dennis

htdm · #146 Post by **htdm** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:08 pm

I think you meant The Sea Beast. Another fine film but I had my hopes up for a minute there for the lovely restored version of The Sea Hawk that airs from time to time on TCM.

Person · #147 Post by **Person** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:36 pm

Kino will be releasing Anthony Asquith's, [b2c]A Cottage on Dartmoor[/b2c] (1929) on October 2, $29.95.

tryavna · #148 Post by **tryavna** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:08 pm

Person wrote:Kino will be releasing Anthony Asquith's, A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) on October 2, $29.95.

That strikes me as exactly the kind of title that will be a PAL->NTSC port, so perhaps some UK company is also releasing it. Either way, I'm really looking forward to finally seeing this movie. I've heard nothing but good things about it from people who've caught it in the theater.

Scharphedin2 · #149 Post by **Scharphedin2** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:32 pm

tryavna wrote:...perhaps some UK company is also releasing it. Either way, I'm really looking forward to finally seeing this movie. I've heard nothing but good things about it from people who've caught it in the theater.

Some time ago it was rumored to be coming from BFI. But so were a number of Borzage's silents...

Tommaso · #150 Post by **Tommaso** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:27 am

Borzage's "The River" (1929) is announced as forthcoming from Edition Filmmuseum. I suppose we will see this by the end of this year.

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