New DVD Reviews: Indiana Jones, Sarah Marshall, and Errol Flynn
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
It's an exciting time of the year! Every fall Hollywood starts releasing their biggest hits to cash in on...
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J'Accuse
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Highly Recommended The Film: One of the first great anti-war films was Abel Gance's J'Accuse . Filmed near the end of WW I and released in 1919, six years before King Vidor's The Big Parade , the movie is a powerful indictment about the horrorsof war as well as a ground breaking and technically innovative piece. Flicker Alley, in association with Lobster Films has now released the restoredversion...
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The Guardian: Cassavetes Was the Father of Modern Day Director’s Cuts
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
The Guardian’s David Parkinson gives a short history of the director’s cut, beginning with D.W. Griffith’s revisiting of The Birth of a Nation, 15 odd years after the initial release. Editing of content and length has been a contentious issue between production companies and filmmakers since the early 1900s, though some directors, like Griffith [...]
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Biographers, start your engines
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
There are hundreds of people out there just waiting to be plucked off the bough of history.
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Mongol - movie review
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
While American filmmakers flog the CGI action to drunken extremes (300, Beowulf), Russian director Sergei Bodrov spits at shortcuts (although he
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Mongol - 6/6/2008
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
While American filmmakers flog the CGI action to drunken extremes (), Russian director Sergei Bodrov spits at shortcuts (although he still digs CGI) and recalls the great movie spectacles of the old school, invoking the invigorating spirits of Abel Gance, Sergei Bondarchuk, and Samuel Bronston, in his rousing, grand, and old-fashioned epic MongolThe first film in a trilogy, Mongol charts the course...
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Silent DVD: Silent Ozu and La Roue
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
This month Silent DVD has reviews of two great examples of early cinema: The Eclipse release Silent Ozu and...
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DVD Savant: Merrill's Marauders, The Skull, and La Roue
DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Merrill's Marauders - Sam Fuller takes on...
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New DVDs 5-6-2008
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
After the massive Melies set last month, here’s another major release from Flicker Alley: a restoration of Abel Gance’s 1922 visionary grab bag “La Roue” with a running time of nearly four and a half hours. That's about two hours more than we’ve had before, and it comes with a visual quality far [...]
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DVDs, 5/6.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The Films of Morris Engel (with Ruth Orkin) represent "such an unassuming clutch of cinema that it'd be easy to overlook the revolution they represented â without Little Fugitive, there might not have been a French New Wave or...
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Critic's Choice: New DVDs: ‘La Roue’
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Abel Gance’s 1922 film “La Roue” is an intimate epic centered on four main characters.
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Backroom Quickie
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
As you may know, my thesis is due in two days, so if you expect me to have anything of substance to say here, you're shit out of luck. However, I'm taking a scheduled break to list a few more DVD updates. Also, just as a forewarning, the posts immediately following the completion of my paper may be just as superficial. But I'll be back soon... anyway... Three silent films are on their way to your shelves....
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La Roue (Abel Gance, dir.)
Cave 17 (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Let me begin by saying that I did not watch all 4 1/2 hours of this film, which I DVRed from Turner Classic Movies a couple of weeks ago. My life does not allow for such things as the careful study of a 270 minute movie. I watched the first oh maybe third of it [...]
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La Rou
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
DVD Reviews: Moviegoers who think today's blockbusters have gotten long-winded have it easy compared to the commitment expected by French silent movie maestro Abel Gance.
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Television movies for the week of April 27
ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
• Abducted ‘07. Sarah Wynter. The wife of a prison warden learns about the ulterior motives of her kidnapper. (NR) (2:00) LIFE: Sat. 3 P.M. (CC)• Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite ‘68. The silent films of French director Abel Gance include the epic “Napoleon.” (NR) (1:00) TCM: Sun. 7 P.M.‘06. Justin Long. After trying [...]
