Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Kean
(1924)
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This feature-length adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas père play, directed by Alexandre Volkoff, stars Ivan Mosjoukine, with Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette, Kenelm Foss, Nicolas Koline, Georges Deneubourg and Albert Bras.
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 Flicker Alley
2013 DVD edition
French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928 (1923-1928), black & white and color-toned black & white, 660 minutes, not rated, including Kean (1924), black & white, 136 minutes, not rated.
Flicker Alley, FA0029,
UPC 6-17311-67659-8, ISBN 1893967654.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc (five DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; French language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; five-disc DVD keepcase in cardboard slipcase; $59.95.
Release date: 14 May 2013 (prerelease announced date: 30 April 2013).
Country of origin: USA
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Our first look at this edition was quite favorable, with the disc mastered from excellent 35mm materials held by La Cinematheque française.
The film is accompanied by a music score by Robert Israel.
Supplemental material includes a 28-page booklet with an essay by Lenny Borger, with notes on the films of the collection.
We enthusiastically recommend this French film set. Unfortunately, the edition is now out-of-print but look for used copies.
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This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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Other silent era IVAN MOSJOUKINE films available on home video.
Other FRENCH FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
Other silent film music scores by ROBERT ISRAEL available on home video.
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