gaylesyboo
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Any word on releasing Lubitsch's The Merry Widow with Chevalier?
Maybe this subject has been covered before this posting, so my apologies in advance.
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The sad thing is that she really wanted to play Ophelia in Olivier's film of Hamlet. I read that in Anne Edward's biography that he believed that she was too old for that part. Probably right about that, but it must have hurt that he picked her virtual doppelganger for that role.
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CinemaScope,
Thank you for that information. I'll send an email to Kino. I hope others on this board follow suit.
Thanks again,
Gaylesyboo
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A Garbo question - Does anyone know of any plans to restore and issue on DVD G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (Der Freudlosse Gasse)? As Garbo's second big role and as a Pabst film, it is an important film historically.
A truncated (missing a whole plot strand concerning Asta Nielsen's character) and abysmal visual quality The Joyless Street is available on the DVD that also contains Chaplin's The Kid.
IMO, Joyless Street needs to receive the care and attention that Pabst's Pandora's Box did.
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> '....For example, it is true why did they not
> include "Woman of Affairs" on the first set (one of
> her greatest films), or "Love" as an extra for "Anna
> Karenina", instead of putting "Camille" with Nazimova
> and ger weird hairdo? Let us hope that of they take
> some time, they will also do some good job for
> restoring the films. ..."
Nakis,
Oh, I so agree with you the addition of Love as an extra for the Anna Karenina DVD instead of that Nazimova Camille. Love would have definitely been an interesting silent companion piece to AK. For one thing, it would allow the viewer to easily see Garbo's artisitc evolution in the same role with 10 or so years between the two outings.
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>"For those of you who have not yet had the
> chance to see it there is a petition circulating
> around from a friend who has a wonderful web site in
> Germany asking for more Garbo DVD
> releases:http://www.petitiononline.com/GGDVD/petition."
> html
>
Nakis,
I am not a frequent poster, but I do read these boards a bit. Thank you so much for posting that link to petition for the release of the rest of Garbo's films on DVD. It's almost criminal that all of them haven't been released.
I hope that this delay might have something to do with careful preservation and restoration of these films.
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> Wow.
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> I actually think A Man For All Seasons is one
> of the finest and most intelligent movies from the
> 60's. Robert Bolt's screenplay, Fred Zinneman's
> direction and the very fine performances from Paul
> Scofield and Richard Shaw make this one a masterpiece
> of its genre. Too bad you couldn't appreciate it, but
> it does remain a somewhat cerebral piece of cinema.
Cinemascope, I agree with your assessment of A Man for All Seasons. I am really happy to hear that it is coming out on DVD (again?). I always thought that Bolt's screenplay really caught the dilemna of a man of conscience who must come to grips with the reality of what he must do so he can stand himself, even if it means he must die. I also think that it catches the contradiction of the Renaissance, beautiful art and literature being produced even when the world is actually a cesspool. Zinnemann made that point really well when he had the regally garbed Henry and the splendidly attired courtiers jump out of the barges into the brown muck.
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Maybe the Hearst connection is the reason that Marion Davies' films have not been released.
Just a thought!
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I echo your wish for the following:
A Woman of Affairs
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Temptress,which was included.)
Broadway Melody of 1936 and 1938
Rosalie
Now that Pandora's Box is finally out in a glorious Region 1 Criterion Collection edition, I long for A Woman of Affairs. Why that one was not included in the first Garbo box set is a mystery to me. I think Garbo's performance in this movie was much stronger than in The Temptress.
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Now that all the Astaire-Rogers movies are out on DVD, to see those TV specials on DVD would be great! If I had those, I think I would be content on the Astaire front. Now, if only, Louise Brooks' American silents would be released.
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Lovely, photos I'll take Norma Shearer over Kristen Dunst anyday!
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> There's a box that's close to it:
> Collection - Early Years (that's the direct
> link to Amazon)
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> 14 DVD SET INCLUDES: The 39 Steps ? The Lady Vanishes
> ? The Man Who Knew Too Much ? The Secret Agent ? The
> Skin Game ? Young & Innocent ? Sabotage ? The Lodger
> ? Blackmail ? Easy Virtue ? Rich & Strange ? The
> Sorcerer?s Apprentice ? The Farmer?s Wife ? The
> Manxman ? Number 17 ? The Ring ? Jamaica Inn ?
> Murder!
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> For the really hard to find early Hitchcock they can
> be gotten from
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> The early Hitch on DVD from HARDTOFINDFILMS are (all
> assessments are from Hitch, not me):
> PLEASURE GARDEN Hitchcock's 1st solo film 1925
> 25 2-disc - 29.99
> DOWNHILL 1927 silent - 19.99
> ELSTREE CALLING 1930 (19 musical and "vaudeville"
> " sketches) `Not good' - 19.99
> MARY Hitchcock's German version of his own MURDER
> ER 1930 `Not good' - 19.99
> WALTZES FROM VIENNA 1933 Light, Strauss story
> ry `Not good' - 19.99
How's the quality of those Hitchcock silent and older talkies?
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Aristocrats finally came out a couple of months ago, and I have it. It was issued by ACORN. I ordered it fron BN.com.
Thanks for the mention of Shoulder to Shoulder. It too needs to come out.
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Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman (Notorious and Indiscreet)
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I just saw Design for Living and was bowled over by how handsome and how funny Gary Cooper was. When I think of Gary Cooper, serious movies like High Noon instantly come to mind.
Design for Living was a real treat. Can anyone out there recommend other early Cooper movies that would be in the same vein.
I've never seen any of his silents but I do remember from one viewing how moving his performance was in A Farewell to Arms.
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Snarfie,
Thanks for the link. Interesting site - well worth the visit.
gaylesyboo
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To Snarfie and all those other Louise Brooks fans:
Pandora's Box is finally coming out on Region 1 DVD in November. Criterion is issuing it with all sorts of extra goodies such as (but not limited to) the following:
Lulu in Berlin (48 minutes the 1971 interview with Brooks by verite documentarian Richard Leacock
A new video interview with Leacock
A new interview with G. W. Pabst's son, Michael
I can't wait!
gaylesyboo
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Aristocrats, the television film based on Stella Tillyard's biography of the 18th Lennox sisters who were grandaughters of Charles II, is finally out on DVD today (Aug. 14).
THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS THE RECENT MOVIE THE ARISTOCRATS! Different subject matter entirely.
A history buff as well as a film buff, I have long been waiting for this 1999 production to show up.
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Anne of a Thousand Days with Bujold and Burton!
A prestige production in its day and nominated for multiple Oscars, I can't understand why it has not been released on DVD in Region 1.
Although no Oscar contender, Mayerling (the 1968 with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve) is another period picture being held up (as far as I know)!
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> I've seen it once on TCM. I didn't "love" it but I
> did enjoy it a lot, especially the Cyd Charise
> stockings dance. She's the only ballet dancer I
> really enjoy because she always added her own
> personal style that made her so much more interesting
> to watch. One of my favorite dance numbers of all
> time is the dance with Gene Kelly that she did in the
> green dress/stockings in Singing In The Rain. It's
> stunning.
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> I love musicals so much but yet I'm a bit picky about
> them. I don't know why. My musical tastes are really
> wierd. I don't usually like Rogers and Hammerstein
> musicals like Oklahoma but I love State Fair. I don't
> really like Broadway production musicals as well as
> backstage musicals but yet my favorite movie of all
> time is My Fair Lady. I love just about everything
> Fred Astaire has ever done but yet I can't seem to
> get into The Bandwagon which was one of his biggest
> hits (although I do LOVE the shoe shine number and a
> few other parts). I wish I weren't so picky....oh
> well. I do adore musicals though.
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> I'm really excited that Summer Stock came out on DVD.
> I've only seen it a couple times but really loved it
> those times. I want my sisters who are big Judy
> Garland fans (and already knows all the words to "Get
> Happy") to see it. It's a shame the studio made Judy
> lose all her weight again. In the beginning of the
> movie she seems healthy and happy looking and by the
> end of the movie she's a twig.
For once, MGM was not guilty in making Judy lose weight. What happened was that the film was finished, and she thought she was done. After previews, the studio felt they needed another, snappier Judy number to finish it so she was called back. While not filming, she lost the weight.
The studio was shocked at how much weight she had lost, but they filmed the Get Happy number anyhow. When the film was released, she was so shockingly slim in that scene in comparison to the rest of the movie, that a lot of people thought it was an outtake from another movie.
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> I don?t get Waterloo Bridge at all. So the girl?s
> boyfriend or husband goes off to war, and the only
> option in all of England that is available to any
> girl in her position is to become a prostitute on
> Waterloo Bridge?
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> That doesn?t even make any sense. I just don?t get
> it.
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> I mean, can?t she get a job as a store clerk and find
> another boyfriend?
Her friend is sick so she needs to make quick money for doctors, medicines, rent, and food.
A lot of the jobs that later generations came to think as feminine occupations (bank teller, secretary) were not yet available for a woman during WWI. Available jobs like shop girl positions were often so poorly paid that women frequently slid into prostitution.
Plus, she was a ballet dancer so she didn't have any other really commercial skills. Also, during WWI, being on the stage in any form was still considered disreputable so prejudice may have kept her from being hired even as a shopgirl.
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Fred and Ginger, first, last, and always!
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I really do hope that the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic The Gay Divorcee will be released in Region one. That movie was the first vehicle in which they were the star attratction. Their dance to Cole Porter's Night and Day is a classic! It is a shame that it wasn't included in the box set. I'd take that one over the Barkleys of Broadway any day
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Thanks for that information on The Show Off/Plastic Age DVD. It will be interesting to see Louise Brooks in a silent American film, especially as this is a movie that pre-dates her "downfall"!
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Babyface is available on DVD. I believe it is part of the Forbidden Hollywood set. I rented it fron Netflix and was able to see both the pre-code and the post-code versions. Both versions are pretty juicy but the pre-code is the honest version!