I don't mind the high price if it can't be done any other way, I can live without extras, but I find the lack of international shipping options very disappointing and at least very troublesome for international customers who should be quite interesting for Warner because these rare films may...
Collections for Eleanor Powell and Ann Sheridan, but no plans for Hedy Lamarr??? I would estimate their commercial potential at a rougly comparable level. OK Powell draws musical fans, but since when is Sheridan bigger than Lamarr? I'm also rather unhappy about the vagueness about the silents...
I'm rather sceptical about the 30s especially the second half with its standardized Hollywood products and the other European countries stiiffled by dictatorships. Nevertheless I've seen quite a lot and the following ones strike me as especially good, almost all are available on DVD: All...
CANYON PASSAGE!!! Great!!! My candidate for best Western ever. I assume we are talking about Vidor's TEXAS RANGERS? But I'd buy ten worthless B westerns in order to get CP in a good quality on DVD. Few films who are shot in such a gorgeous way.
Glad you liked it, essential classic in Germany, completely unknown elsewhere. available on amazon.de WITH English subs http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASI...RJ6K/dvdpalace
I somehow always wait that somebody besides me mentions Hedy Lamarr in these wishing threads. Never happens so I guess I'm the only one who would love a set with Come Live with Me H.M. Pulham, Esq. The Conspirators White Cargo Experiment Perilous Maybe Warner could even somehow save...
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!!! BLOOD AND SAND!!! Love Mamoulian, always wanted to see this movie which absolutely never appears on German TV. Very exciting. As for the Doris Day titles I simply hope this stuff sells well and allows Fox to bring on more pearls like BLLOD AND SAND or the restored THE...
I recommend it, too. Entertaining reading, very well researched with much interviews done and a convincing chracter study locating Mitchum as hobo. I found it one of the most remarkeble film biographies I've evere read. Regarding GOOD GUYS I guess they don't want to include such super films...
Marvelous collection. Except for The Good Guys and the Bad Guys which I've never heard of absolutely every title is very good AND interesting. Especially THE SUNDOWNERS is a masterpiece but I found the much maligned MACAO also very remarkable.
It was at the moment it was made a popular movie that hit a certain strain just before the war. Now it's simply embarassing and I don't have to make the same excuses for THE GRAPES OF WRATH, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS or TO BE OR NOT TO BE made roughly at the same time. Hawks is one of the most...
To put it mildly. Warner Germany puts out cheap DVDs originating from VHS tapes. Be careful before you jump at this rubbish even if they may be the single releases in the world at the moment. The Gary Cooper boxset seems to have been put together in order to ruin his reputation :). I can't...
I wouldn't jump to hasty conclusions because THE WISHING RING by Maurice Tourneur, THE MYSTERIOUS X by Christensen or THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE, all from 1913/1914, are all very much watchable. I think that Italian cinema had some grave problems with the development of the film language despite the...
Julia is very much the current critic's favourite in Germany and deservedly so, but I'm not sure if she can move beyond the arthouse level though THE EDUKATORS was a big commercial success. My bet for stardom among the current German leading ladies is still Alexandra Maria Lara from DOWNFALL. I...
Sniff ... only 7 out of 10, that's more or less the lowest rating you ever give to films ;). I thought MENSCHEN managed what only few successors of the nouvelle vague 30 years later achieved: to abandon the conventional dramatics and let the conflict grow out of a gruop's simple weekend trip to...
Haggai and Mario, you two really should get anice coffe table book with pics of Grace Kelly, Maureen O'Hara, Gene Tierney and Hedy Lamarr. This should cure you two ;). I admit Moreau has a certain charisma, but it goes beyond a certain pleasent and dreamy melancholy and ends up in a rather...
I had a nice presentation with a friend a few weeks ago about Renoir's DIARY, we saw also Bunuel's film and while I read the model for WOMAN ON THE BEACH, my friend read Mirbeau's novel. Her opinion was frankly that the book is the best and we agreed very much about the films. Renoir's film goes...
I wouldn't pay any attention to reviews by people who have no idea about silent films ... standardized at 16 frames, what a silly nonsense, there has never be a standard, in fact there are even films where different scenes are shot at different speeds. Generally the later the film is shot the...
I strongly second this though I'm not sure if Universal holds the rights since it was a Walter Wanger Production. It's strange that Tourneur's horro films are widely acknowledged as major classics, that OUT OF THE PAST is considered THE film noir, but that his major contribution to the western...
No, it didn't. While DAUGHTER wasn't as successful as Lean's previous epics especially ZHIVAGO, it still was a succesful picture and made a profit. For 1970 it's the eight highest grossing film in North America. I think DAUGHTER will always be considered the weakest of all five epics and...
Which maniac fabricated hundreds of accounts in order to vote for this film ? Anaway please drop a vote for one of the best westerns ever made. Canyon Passage
Sounds good. All are first rate pictures who miss the known essential classics lists (maybe except LOVE ME and PARIS), but deserve very much to be included and better known.
Hey, wait a minute, removing scenes with Annabella? That's the worst imaginable idea and can't improve any film :frowning: ;). Such a lovely lady :b. She could give this fascistoid horror film at least some good scenes :D.
Don't tell me INTOLERANCE is also a :star: :star: :star: :star: film ;)!!! I think the fact that a film is "big" which not only means expensive but also leaden with visual and philosophical ambitions strangely leads to an automatically generated praise and especially so in the silent era. But...
That's a bit too much, but I remember the mid 19th century novelist Gottfried Keller stating in one of his novels that pretty much everything has been already told. Which makes it all the more important not to bore us to death with the oldest cliches and most melodramatic stories. You have to...
Well then feel offended, but it's really a miracle how you can overlook the aggressive racism of BIRTH, the communist propaganda of OCTOBER, the fascistoid ideals of NAPOLEON and the many ridiculous aspects of METROPOLIS which were noted by many critics at the premiere. Especially hilarious is...