SheriffAmbrose wrote:Cinema Europe is well worth checking out. Thankfully I got that while it was still in print as it is being sold for nothing less than $200 on amazon right now.
Really? That's tempting! I must dig out my copy!
Cinema Europe is mostly stunning, though the British episode is a major disappointment: Brownlow seems unfairly prejudiced against British silent cinema, which was a lot more intriguing than he's making out.
Watch it by all means, but Matthew Sweet's Silent Britain should be viewed immediately afterwards as a much-needed corrective.
The more recent Brownlow documentaries I've seen - Universal Horror and the one on Lon Chaney are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head - just don't seem anywhere near the standard of his earlier work with David Gill.
I guess one obvious reason for that might be that nearly all the people associated with the Silent era are now dead; the fragments from the 1970s interviews that occasionally turn up in the newer documentaries are usually the most informative bits.
It feels like that blaze of enthusiasm has died down somewhat, and Universal Horror especially seemed to be going through the motions - maybe he's tired, or busy with more important things... Anyway, I shouldn't grumble. Brownlow is God, after all.
Asch wrote:I They're all there: 13 episodes in what appears to be good quality! Almost 9GB in total! It takes a while (depending on your connection) but is worthwhile the time! You have to go to the following webpage (bittorrent), install the client, seach for the series and register on the appropriate webpages. The download is free, but the series has been uploaded through a private site that requires registration (but no fee!)
Has anyone tried getting "Hollywood" from this site ?
Just wondered how to do it ?
I had a look on the site and had a search but couldnt find any episodes from it...or does one need to download the "Vuze" progams to view it possibly ?
filmyfan wrote:Has anyone tried getting "Hollywood" from this site ?
Just wondered how to do it ?
I had a look on the site and had a search but couldnt find any episodes from it...or does one need to download the "Vuze" progams to view it possibly ?
I haven't tried as have a watchable version already but Vuze (formerly Azureus) is just a torrent programme and network, though you can search main torrent sites with it as well. The link you need is probably this. Register free then use any torrent programme to download.
Kevin Brownlow is receiving an Honorary Academy Award on November 13th. As a fitting tribute, I have put online the original transcript of the interview I conducted in 2008 with Kevin Brownlow. (an interview originally published in French). You can read part 1: Beginnings and Directing Pictures.
Part 2 about French silent cinema is now online. This era is overlooked due to the paucity of films available on DVD. A great opportunity to learn about some great figures of that era!
Great AMPAS speech... Wonder if fellow Academy honorees Brownlow and Coppola took the opportunity to reach some sort of rapprochement over NAPOLEON and the various versions... Probably wishful thinking, I'm afraid...
I do have a laserdisc player and every time i see it on Ebay it easly goes for over $200. Did rent the vhs version from my local library and copy them to my dvd recorder so i guess i should be lucky but i hope one day they will release it on dvd as they did with "Buster Keaton A Hard Act To Follow", "Unknown Chaplin", and "D.W. Griffith Father Of Film".
If you really want to see it, the first 11 episodes are on youtube.
There are rapidshare links in the comment aswell, I normally don't condone illegal downloads, but in cases like this I think it's acceptable.
When I met Kevin Brownlow and his producing partner, Patrick Stanbury, as the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in 2010, I asked about releasing "Hollywood" on DVD and they both said that it simply isn't going to happen due to the cost of relicensing all the film clips. While you would think that it would behoove the studios to simply gift the rights to the program as a way of promoting their own libraries, but logic and Hollywood studio thinking just don't go hand in hand.
SeanAx wrote:I asked about releasing "Hollywood" on DVD and they both said that it simply isn't going to happen due to the cost of relicensing all the film clips.
Makes you wonder if some intellectual property shouldn't be protected from their rights-owners... ](*,)
Makes you wonder how much the costs of relicensing all the film clips when all the clips are from silent films? I kinda thought the studios and rights owners would be happy to make some money on silent films instead of not releasing their movies to dvd at all. How many of the major studios will release more silent movies to dvd since the dvd market is slowing down?
The Parade's Gone By... is getting its first ever French edition. La parade est passée is coming out at the end of October from Acte Sud - Institut Lumière. I am especially proud of this publication as I am the translator. It took a mere 43 years for the book to reach the French speaking public...
It's nice too see that the early history of Hollywood will be read by other countries and also it's a great book to read. Did see on Ebay that somebody has the VHS tape set of the series "Hollywood" starting at $169..hoping it will end up on dvd one of theses day.... [-o<
