I've got a drastically cut-down version of The Joyless Street (with all the Asta Nielsen scenes excised). When will a full-length DVD be released anywhere with English sub-titles? I was hoping that it would be included with the recently released Garbo centenery box set but no luck there. I know this film was restored several years ago. Even the 90+ mins Kino Video is no longer available and anyway that's some 30 mins short of the full restoration.
shareApparently the current "full" restoration is 175 min. which is more like 85 min short of the Kino version. I did see one that is 148 min. with German title cards and french subtitles overlaid below them. It may have been a copy from TV or some other bootleg. That is the best news I know of it.
shareLike you, Celia_Coyle, I have a butchered version wiht none of the Asta Nielsen scenes. If a restoration is not in the works, it should be.
This is a key film in both Garbo's and G. W. Pabst's oeuvre, it would seem a likely candidate for the same treatment that Pabst's Pandora's Box finally received. After all, it meets the same criteria: a crucial film in the development of both its actress and director. The only difference is that the actress is Garbo and not Louise Brooks
My copy is off the Stanky cheap 20 movie pack Cult Classics.
But I did like it... But what is it doing on a movie comp with movies about drug abuse and siamese twins is anyone's guess.
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^ I'm watching that "version" now, as I type. My friend let me borrow it because we were talking about Garbo and Dietrich, she threw that disc at me and said, "Watch Joyless Street, it's the only one they did together."...Quick google search, and IMDb page browsing, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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