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They do great job restoring old films and this one is no exception. The image quality if first rate - it is completely film-like on large screen - and the sound is near perfect, with just the right amount of that old-fashion flavor.Ah, and great film too...
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i didn't really go for it that much, though i did think it funny that they needed to get the beggars' union involved to catch the guy. i guess the dynamic is that he's not responsible, the public doesn't care about culpability because they just want safety, and the gangsters don't care morally because they just want to be left alone by the cops. so there are no true moral agents, unless the court was to be, but they they'd have been bad from these other interests and perspectives. what did you get out of it? g
***what did you get out of it?I agree that most of the story is silly, but the story is just an excuse the director needs to put actors on stage. I didn't pay much attention to it.
But what is wonderful in that film is how the director paints it for us. The senses of fear and horror are completely palpable while done through "trivial" and insignificant means - that takes true artist. One of the most masterful scenes is the anticipation of horror when mother is waiting for the missing daughter - the empty stairwell is incredible, with bone-chilling horror as real as it gets.
Scenes like the cornered animal while the hunters are getting closer and closer... these are true masterstrokes and this is what makes the film so noteworthy, not the silly plot.
The movie directors have largelly lost the ability to say a lot with few words, as they mostly went in the direction of the cheap effects. While tryng to scare us more and more, they lost their ability to impress us, to reach our innermost fears, and what we ended up was the tedious series of that nasty "Friday the XX" trash.
Here we have the movie analogy of the famous "Scream" painting.
Yes, you are quite right. One scene in particular that illustrates the point you make is the resolution of the suspense surrounding the girl kidnapped while the mother prepares dinner. Rather than resort to graphic images, there is simply the bouncing ball in all its bleak finality. One other comparison I would draw as between artistic and commercial films relates to the issue of ambiguity. With notable exceptions, say, Basic Instinct, commerical films seem to abhor ambiguity, whereas artistic films revel in it. You've probably seen Picnic at Hanging Rock from the Criterian collection, which I submit to you as illustrative of my point, along with the ending of "M". All the best. g
They do great job restoring old films and this one is no exception.I think this is true of all the movies they do. The Criterion edition of Cocteau's "Beauty And The Beast" has a look into the restoration process on the disc. Can't wait to see what they do with "Children of Paradise".
i loved beauty and the beast. also great was rebecca. i also cannot wait for children of paradise.
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