Feature: The Best DVDs of 2008
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
The format may be on its way out, or at least about to change radically, but this year found more than a few reasons to stay excited about those shiny discs.
F. W. Murnau
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Film Screening: The Golem
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
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Kudos to Fox for Murnau, Borzage set
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
A frequent complaint of mine is how the major movie studios gouge DVD collectors. They reissue the same titles primarily films no older than the '80s over and over in various "special," "deluxe," ultimate" or "super-sized-ginormous" editions.
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DVD review: Murnau, Borzage And Fox
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 12/10/2008
By importing brilliant German émigré F.W. Murnau, a studio found an eager protégé.
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Murnau, Borzage and Fox.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
"They formed the most unlikely of cinematic triumvirates, but for a few years in the waning days of the 1920s and the early 1930s, Hungarian-born movie mogul William Fox and directors Frank Borzage and FW Murnau pushed the language...
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New DVDs: When Titans Roamed the Backlot at Fox
New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
“Murnau, Borzage and Fox” brings together a rich selection of films by two of the most important filmmakers in the history of the medium.
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Murnau and Others in 2009
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Kino will release three silent works from director F.W. Murnau on DVD on 17 March. The first is a resorted edition of Faust ; the second is The Finances of the Grand Duke [ Die Finanzen des Großherzogs ]; and the third is The Haunted Castle [ Schloß Vogeloed ]. Also in March from Kino are Wonderful Town on the 3rd and Nicolas Philibert's doc Back to Normany [ Retour en Normandie ] on the same day....
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French critics name their 100 greatest
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
They don't make 'em like that anymore. That's the clear message from the poll by the influential journal , which invited 78 French critics and film historians to choose the all-time 100 best movies. All of the top 14 films on the chart were made before the 1960s.
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Images of the day, 11/21/08
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The opening shot of The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford, 1940In his recent video appreciation of this film, The New York Times' A.O. Scott admits to being a little gobsmacked: "I'd never thought that The Grapes of Wrath would strike...
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Sunrise
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Trailer (QuickTime Video) for Eureka Video's Masters of Cinema edition of Sunrise (1927, directed by F.W. Murnau). "...F. W. Murnau - invited to America by William Fox, the promise of complete artistic freedom, and a blank cheque - made Sunrise on the cusp of two eras: it represents the silent film at the peak of its poetic sophistication, and the sound film in its infancy. Fox told Murnau to take...
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The world's top 100 films -- a French list
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
If you are weary with lists that rank Titanic or Harry Potter among the highest works of art, you may be comforted by a league table of great films that came out in France this week. A jury of 76...
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Nosferatu
Dark Party Review (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The 86-year-old Vampire Film Needs a Careful Watching to Appreciate Ironically, for a film that is 86 years old, “Nosferatu” starts off, like a bad, self-produced YouTube video. Thankfully, it improves. I’ve always wanted to watch the first vampire movie ever made and the one that is often considered the greatest adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” It’s an unofficial version and Stoker
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Seventh heaven for cinephiles: A preview of "Murnau, Borzage, and Fox"
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
Sally Eilers in Bad Girl, Frank Borzage, 1930, from the "Murnau, Borzage and Fox" box setFox's staggering John Ford box last year was a euphoric shock for cinephiles who were used to the major studios treating the canon with, at...
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Your Weekend Of Protest [To Do]
Defamer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
FRIDAY · Apes & Androids at the Echo, Keller Williams at the El Rey, and Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl. · Mark Taper Forum presents Elizabethan whodunit The School of Night. ...
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‘The Exorcist’ polled the best-ever horror films
NHatky (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
"The Exorcist," William Friedkin's 1973 iconic movie, has been voted the best horror film ever made, according to a new poll of British filmgoers published today. Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," the 1980 film remake of Stephen King's classic novel, was placed second in the survey, followed by Ridley Scott's 1979 ...
