french House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher)
I assume some of you have seen this. It's one of my favorite "dreamlike" films (such as Vampyr. In some ways I like it more than Vampyr). While most silent films are known for being projected too...
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Beautiful, silent, art film which at different times resembles Browning's Dracula (the prologue is pretty much the same type of thing, but has become a horror film cliche nowadays.) And yet scenes...
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It's brilliant film. I think I started a thread on it somewhere here a couple years ago myself. I've never understood why it isn't better known. I think I still like VAMPYR just bit more, but I'm a...
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It's not well know because till recently it was a lost film. It's listed nowhere in Bunuel's early filmography or biography.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "recently", herm, but I saw this on some form of home video about 15 years ago.
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I believe the only known 35mm of LA CHUTE exists in the collection of Raymond Rohauer, who widely duped it; but this one's been around for a while. The DVD has been out for about a decade, and a VHS...
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I think there were prints at Audio Brandon Films (a 16mm rental place) in the late 1970s when I started working there. We had a lot of weird stuff that came from Raymond Rohauer -- from Keaton and...
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>Note: Either the film uses a weird type of candle I've never seen or it uses a strange special effect to make candle flames gigantic at a couple of points. The miniature model work is not always...
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This is my review of the DVD version released by David Kalat way back in 2001 (from Rohauer's decaying print): http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displaylegacy.php?ID=1226 which Roger Ebert cited in his...
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I agree that this is an excellent film, but I was struck by the variable quality of the performances. Jean Debucourt's Roderick is one of the best performances I have seen in any silent film, and...
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