I saw this film in a cinema around a month ago; absolutely loved it - sublime, staggering masterwork...
It seems it is not at all available however on video... bizarrely. Is there anyone who does have a copy who'd maybe be able to do me a PAL VHS copy of the film? I'd be rather grateful. :-)
Tom May.
My email is:
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by the way.
Tom.
20th Century Fox has announced a series called 'Fox Studio Classics'. You can get a DVD copy of 'Sunrise' free by mail with the purchase of 3 other 'Fox Studio Classics' titles. This is the only way you can get a DVD copy of this title. The selections available from the 'Fox Studio Classics' are:
How Green Was My Valley
All About Eve
Gentlemen's Agreement
An Affair To Remember
Hope this information helps.
Good news! Oct. 14 you can buy the box set from Fox that has "Sunrise;" "An Affair to Remember;" "All About Eve;" and "A Gentleman's Agreement." Can pre-order frm Amazon.com and other places. About 30 bucks.
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The "Unique and Artistic" version of the Best Picture was removed (obviously), so there are no modern successors to the type of award... I think that is why Wings is thought of more highly.
It is also kind of like how the Dramatic Best Picture is thought of more highly than the Comedic Best picture at the golden globes.
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your post was nearly exactly one year on from the previous. amazing.
"how about... a royal flush!" *loren avedon kicks a cauldron of boiling water into the bad guys*
I firmly disagree. The early works of Sergei Eisenstien and the Russian montage movement clarified and honed a type of "formula" or "melody" to film that has become the very foundation of how to structure a narrative film. Terms like "Russian montage" and the theory of "Thesis-Anthesis-Synthesis" will always be the standard for constructing films shot by shot.
As far as the best silent film ever? My bid: Battleship Potempkin.
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It seems though, that from that period, the films that have endured the most are the comedies- Chaplin and Keaton. If I had to pick my favourite films of the 1920s, I'd mention The Gold Rush, The Circus, Our Hospitality, Sherlock Jr....
I guess it's because it's timeless comedy.
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