Faust (2-DVD) (Silent)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 17, 2009
- Originally Released: 1926
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn & Gösta Ekman | |
Performer: | Eric Barclay & William Dieterle | |
Directed by | F.W. Murnau | |
Screenwriting by | Hans Kyser | |
Composition by | Timothy Brock | |
Produced by | Erich Pommer | |
Director of Photography: | Carl Hoffman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Here is a picture which is as far removed from the ordinary movie as a Tintoretto painting.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/4 --
Faust an extremely stylish horror fantasy in the best tradition of German silent cinema, featuring brilliant photography, magnificent art direction, and magical special effects which still have the power to amaze.
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TV Guide
[Y]ou'll be knocked out cold by Murnau's indelible images, haunting use of shadows, and trippy, dreamlike expressionist sets. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
As atmospheric and menacing a work as the expressionist movement ever produced.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 10/10 --
A great work by a great director, and one of the most instantly accessible silent films ever made.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 4/4 --
Films from the German Expressionism era are famous for their fiercely stylized mise-en-scene, and to Murnau the medium's very artificiality provided the keys to locating its truths.
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Slant Magazine
This extraordinary piece of artistry and craftsmanship integrates its dazzling special effects so seamlessly that they're indistinguishable from the film's narrative, poetry, and, above all, metaphysics.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Mobilizing the full resources of the Ufa Studios, F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise) orchestrated a colossal adaptation of Goethe's Faust that ranks alongside Fritz Lang's Metropolis as the greatest achievement of the German silent cinema.
Gosta Ekman stars as the titular alchemist who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth...in exchange for his soul. As the diabolical Mephisto, Emil Jannings (The Last Laugh) delivers a performance of operatic scale and intensity, by turns charming, comical, and horrific.
This special Kino edition contains the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation's meticulous restoration of the original German version of the film (with unique hand-painted intertitles), as well as a lengthier alternate cut prepared by the Ufa Studios in 1930.
Product Description:
Murnau's FAUST stars the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles, to whom the hapless and aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth as well as wealth and power. Based on Goethe's interpretation of the age old legend, Murnau merely uses the story as a starting point for an incredibly phantasmagoric vision of the struggle between good and evil. Beginning with a flourish, Murnau introduces Mephistopheles with one of the most famous sequences in film history, finding Jannings being birthed as a disgusting, primordial creature from the heavens and banished to the netherworld. Baroque, bizarre, and unforgettable, FAUST is one of the German master's greatest triumphs. Silent movie with English and German subtitles. The Kino version is restored with a symphonic soundtrack.
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- UPC: 738329064921
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