At last, an expressionist silent classic that takes full advantage of cinematic principles. The legendary E.A. Dupont goes in for subjective-emotional effects of which Hitchcock would approve, and cameraman Karl Freund and effects wizard Eugen Schüfftan pull off spectacular visuals and special effects. No wonder this was a huge hit in America, it’s way ahead of its time (and ours, in some ways).
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Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1925 / Color tinted / 1:33 Silent Ap / 95 min. / Street Date August 22, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward, Alice Hechy, Georg John, Kurt Gerron.
Cinematography: Karl Freund, Karl Hoffman
Art Director: Alfred Junge, Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Visual Effects: Eugen Schüfftan
Original Music: Erno Rapee
From the book Der Eid des Stephan Huller by Felix Hollaender
Produced by Erich Pommer
Written and Directed by E. A. Dupont
We carefully studied this show in film school, in a mangled...
Varieté
Blu-ray
Kino Classics
1925 / Color tinted / 1:33 Silent Ap / 95 min. / Street Date August 22, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward, Alice Hechy, Georg John, Kurt Gerron.
Cinematography: Karl Freund, Karl Hoffman
Art Director: Alfred Junge, Oscar Friedrich Werndorff
Visual Effects: Eugen Schüfftan
Original Music: Erno Rapee
From the book Der Eid des Stephan Huller by Felix Hollaender
Produced by Erich Pommer
Written and Directed by E. A. Dupont
We carefully studied this show in film school, in a mangled...
- 7/4/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
British actor Ewan McGregor is terrified about his return to the London stage later this year, because his theatre career is littered with catastrophes.
The star has appeared in a number of shows on London's West End, including the musical Guys and Dolls, but he is scarred by forgotten lines and onstage mistakes.
He says, "It can so easily go wrong and then there's nothing you can do about it when it does.
"I think anyone that's worked on stage will have horrible stories... When you're getting ready to rehearse a play, all your actor friends will tell you stories, horrible stories, nightmare stories, about peoples pants falling off, forgetting lines."
McGregor recalls, "I forgot a song in Guys and Dolls and had to make stuff up... because the band keeps playing. They can't stop. I was making s**t up. It was awful."
The star is preparing to take to the stage again this autumn in a production of Shakespeare's Othello at London's Donmar Warehouse - and things have already started to go wrong.
He explains, "Someone had lost (forgot) their lines and... (there was a) horrible long pause. And then, of course, three minutes later during the next scene... I realised it had happened to me."...
The star has appeared in a number of shows on London's West End, including the musical Guys and Dolls, but he is scarred by forgotten lines and onstage mistakes.
He says, "It can so easily go wrong and then there's nothing you can do about it when it does.
"I think anyone that's worked on stage will have horrible stories... When you're getting ready to rehearse a play, all your actor friends will tell you stories, horrible stories, nightmare stories, about peoples pants falling off, forgetting lines."
McGregor recalls, "I forgot a song in Guys and Dolls and had to make stuff up... because the band keeps playing. They can't stop. I was making s**t up. It was awful."
The star is preparing to take to the stage again this autumn in a production of Shakespeare's Othello at London's Donmar Warehouse - and things have already started to go wrong.
He explains, "Someone had lost (forgot) their lines and... (there was a) horrible long pause. And then, of course, three minutes later during the next scene... I realised it had happened to me."...
- 4/19/2008
- WENN
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