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Re: German Filmmuseum Edition

#626 Post by matrixschmatrix » Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:29 pm

As I have several to pick up for the pre-20s project- is there a cheap place to buy these, or should I just bite the bullet and buy them from Amazon?

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#627 Post by swo17 » Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:43 pm

Check all the European Amazons for the best deal.

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#628 Post by Tommaso » Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:57 pm

Also check jpc.de. Often they are a few Euros cheaper, especially with newly released 2-disc-sets from Edition Filmmuseum.

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#629 Post by knives » Mon Apr 24, 2017 5:49 pm

Filmmuseum themselves are also pretty good and have a great staff.

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#630 Post by neilist » Sun Apr 30, 2017 3:42 pm

HerrSchreck wrote:Does anyone here (say Tommy) have any idea what in god's name ever happened w Algol from this crew? The slow drip drip drip of atomic releases from this label seems to have thickened into a flat out clog. I understand they're constrained by time and budget and a Europe fracturing like the rest of civilization into rampant political idiocy ("First 50 years of the 20th Century? WTF are the First 50 Years of the 20th Century??--doomed to repeat what???").

But there's no better cure for rampant political insanity than finally wiping away the smog of time via ancient TV telecine analog rips to settle down with a fabulous silent masterwork like Algol or Die Strasse.
Adam wrote:Could you mean this newly restored version of ALGOL from the Munich Film Museum that is playing at the American CInematheque in Los Angeles on Sunday April 30?
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FIAF is in LA that weekend, so all the various archivists from around the world will be here. The American Cinematheque is doing a couple of relevant shows. (I was hoping to do another but it didn't work out.) Anyway, I trust that the screening means that the DVD will come soon.
American Cinematheque article including information on the restoration of 'Algol' here. Hopefully the DVD will be on its way out soon...

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Re: German Filmmuseum Edition

#631 Post by Perkins Cobb » Wed May 03, 2017 12:59 pm

neilist wrote:Heiner Carow's 'Die Russen kommen' and 'Karriere' due March 2017.
Edition Filmmuseum 107
Heiner Carow's powerful film The Russians Are Coming, about the final days of World War II, was made in the GDR in 1968. However, it did not receive state authorization for release at the time and could only be painstakingly reconstructed in 1987. This double DVD presents a new, restored version of the film and allows viewers their first ever opportunity to compare it with Career (1971), in which Heiner Carow made use of parts of the unreleased material from The Russians Are Coming.
Anyone have this yet? Any issues with the transfers?

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#632 Post by L.A. » Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:43 pm

Opium (Robert Reinert, 1919) has been restored (had no idea it survives) and was shown at Berlinale last month. Sure hope Filmmuseum puts this out eventually.

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#633 Post by TMDaines » Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:52 pm

Oh wow, yes! The only way to view at the moment is via the ropiest of ropy rips, which is essentially useless.

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Re: German Filmmuseum Edition

#634 Post by neilist » Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:42 am

The first new release in around a year features James Benning's '11x14', 'One Way Boogie Woogie / 27 Year Later' and 'One Way Boogie Woogie 2012'.
The mid-1970s saw James Benning's first feature films attract the attention of critics, establishing him as a representative of the »New Narrative Movement.« In films like 11╳14 and One Way Boogie Woogie, he combines the structural analysis of image, sound and narrative with auto-biographical traces, as well as with an almost »classical« interest in composition, color, light and landscape. This 2-disc set features 11╳14 (1977), one of the central U.S. avant-garde films of the 1970s, in a restored version. Also included is Benning's recurring view of his hometown Milwaukee at three different points in time: One Way Boogie Woogie (1978), 27 Years Later (2005) and One Way Boogie Woogie 2012. Documents of change and transience.

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#635 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Mar 26, 2018 11:56 am

Wow, is this the first time these films have been released on DVD? I was fortunate to see 11x14 at Anthology Film Archives in an excellent looking 16mm print - if the transfer's good I'll definitely pick this up.

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#636 Post by Adam » Tue Mar 27, 2018 12:04 am

Yes, first time. None of Benning's films have existed on DVD outside of the Filmmuseum editions.

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#637 Post by whaleallright » Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:03 am

well, this is a must-get for me. these are probably my favorite of Bennings's films.

it would be interesting to see the two One Way Boogie Woogie films (literally) side-by-side, although that might disrupt the play with memory that seeing them back-to-back provokes. (for those who don't know, the later film finds Benning shooting the same locations, from essentially—often precisely—the same camera positions, and documenting the intervening 25+ years' impact on those locations as well as Benning and his friends.)

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#638 Post by Tommaso » Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:29 pm

Now available: the 2-disc release of Ophuls' "Liebelei" and "Lola Montez". And "Lola" finally is the German-language version!
If that alone wasn't reason to rejoice: the extras look spectacular.

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#639 Post by isakorg2 » Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:31 pm

Hopefully, there are some typos on Filmmuseum's site and their Lola Montez is more than 29 minutes long and Liebelei has English subtitles. What a surprise, though, to have the release pop up like this - I was settled in for the customary lengthy Filmmuseum wait.

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#640 Post by denti alligator » Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:22 pm

Tommaso wrote:Now available: the 2-disc release of Ophuls' "Liebelei" and "Lola Montez". And "Lola" finally is the German-language version!
If that alone wasn't reason to rejoice: the extras look spectacular.
Well, yet another DVD order is necessary. Wish they would do Blu-ray!

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#641 Post by McCrutchy » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:53 pm

denti alligator wrote:
Tommaso wrote:Now available: the 2-disc release of Ophuls' "Liebelei" and "Lola Montez". And "Lola" finally is the German-language version! If that alone wasn't reason to rejoice: the extras look spectacular.
Well, yet another DVD order is necessary. Wish they would do Blu-ray!
Agreed. I know they generally release obscure films, but bid be shocked if HD/2K masters aren't approaching bog standard even for most of them by now. More and more of EF's counterparts in other countries have made the transition to Blu-ray at least to some extent, but EF remain stuck on DVDs even though they are situated right in Europe's largest Blu-ray market, and more than one of their recent (in relative terms) film releases has a Blu-ray edition made available elsewhere. Unless the elements are in particularly poor condition, this particular Ophüls release would have seemed an ideal candidate for Blu-ray. I'll still probably get the DVD once it goes to general distribution through Alive in a few months, but I'd have gladly paid double the EF price and bought direct for a 2xBD-50 set with the same content.

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#642 Post by Tommaso » Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:24 am

Out of the blue, a new release:

Leuchtturm des Chaos & Der Havarist
by Wolf-Eckardt Bühler (1983/84).

Never even heard of them.

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#643 Post by Roger Ryan » Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:05 am

Pharos of Chaos was included as an extra on Criterion's release of The Asphalt Jungle.

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#644 Post by 4LOM » Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:25 pm

McCrutchy wrote:Unless the elements are in particularly poor condition, this particular Ophüls release would have seemed an ideal candidate for Blu-ray. I'll still probably get the DVD once it goes to general distribution through Alive in a few months, but I'd have gladly paid double the EF price and bought direct for a 2xBD-50 set with the same content.
The reconstruction of the German premiere version of Lola Montez was done in Full HD back in 2001/2002. It was the first complete digital film restoration in Germany.

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#645 Post by neilist » Thu Aug 30, 2018 4:54 pm

A couple of August 2018 new releases...
'Tender are the Feet' (Maung Wunna, 1972, Burma)

Sein Lin, a drummer of a traditional Burmese theatre group, falls in love with the beautiful dancer, Khin San. When she leaves the theatre to pursue a career as a film actress, he gives her a small figure as a keepsake, a symbol of traditional theatre. They part ways and he watches her from a distance as she appears to lose her way in the ultra-glamourous world of commercial cinema. This black and white classic comes with an important message: true art is as private and as intense as the love between a drummer and his dancer. Based on meticulous research of Burmese travelling theatre groups, Tender are the Feet was made in 1972. It is one of the first films of Maung Wunna, a director who developed his artistic style during the golden age of Burmese cinema and continued to do so despite the oppressive policies of the military dic tatorship. An important reference point for contemporary filmmakers, it has now been restored from the only sur - viving source material, a DVCPro archive tape provided by Myanmar's national broadcaster MRTV.
'Das Luftschiff' (Rainer Simon, 1983, East Germany) & 'Unbändiges Spanien' (Kurt & Jeanne Stern, 1962, East Germany)

Rainer Simon's adaptation of Fritz Rudolf Fries' novel "The Airship" is one of the most unconventional feature films ever produced in East Germany. Featuring a complex flashback structure and animated dream sequences painted directly on the film by artist Lutz Dammbeck, Das Luftschiff tells the story of an inventor who dreams of building a revolutionary new airship. When Civil War breaks out in Spain, the inventor refuses to allow his work to be abused for sinister political purposes.

Unbändiges Spanien is an expanded version of Spanish Earth by Joris Ivens, who authorized Jeanne and Kurt Stern to update his work for a new audience.

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#647 Post by Saturnome » Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:07 pm

1936 must certainly be the last year of silent cinema. Is there any literature about silents in the 1930s outside of Japan?

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#648 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:09 pm

Most of the frequently-discussed Chinese films of the '30s were silent (including all of Ruan Lingyu's films). Best as I can tell, the last year for Chinese silents was 1935. So books dealing with '30s cinema in China, like Vivian Shen's The Origins of Left-wing Cinema in China, will be largely discussing silent films, though without discussing them as silent films per se.

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#649 Post by zedz » Tue Sep 25, 2018 4:18 pm

Korea's first sound film wasn't made until 1935 as well. The transition to sound in Asian national cinemas seems to be consistently later than in the West. India's first talkie was made in 1931, but I don't know how fast sound took over there.

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#650 Post by vertovfan » Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:35 am

The first Serbian sound feature film was made in 1942: Stevan Mišković and Dragoljub Aleksić's Innocence Unprotected. Dušan Makavejev paid homage to it in his 1968 film of the same name.

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