Underground (Blu-ray)
The Thrilling Romance of London's Underground Railways.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: April 23, 2019
- Originally Released: 1928
- Label: Kino Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Elissa Landi, Brian Aherne, Cyril McLaglen & Norah Baring | |
| Directed by | Anthony Asquith | |
| Screenwriting by | Anthony Asquith |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Despite Underground's bleak subject matter, it's an invigorating film, bursting with energy.
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Spectrum Culture
Underground is a bizarre, often repellent anti-war parable that takes forever to state the obvious but hits some scattered high notes on the way.
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AV Club
Rating: 3/5 --
On balance, Kusturica is sturdier on style than substance.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.
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New York Daily News
War, hot and cold.
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Boulder Weekly
A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/4 --
A rich, vibrant, visually spectacular survey of the changes the place has gone through during the past 50 years.
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Seattle Times
Product Description:
Introduced as a “story of ordinary workaday people,” Anthony Asquith's Underground (1928) masterfully balances the light and dark sides of city life to evoke the daily existence of the average Londoner better than any other film from Britain's silent canon. It tells the story of an electrician (Cyril McLaglen) and an underground porter (Brian Aherne) who both fall in love with the same shop girl (Elissa Landi). Asquith (A Cottage on Dartmoor, Shooting Stars) is one of the supreme stylists of the British silent cinema, and Underground is a grand display of his expressionistic talents.
Kino Classics is proud to present this sparkling restoration from the BFI National Archive, bringing this charming underground subway romance back into the light.
Special Features: NEWLY COMMISSIONED SCORE BY NEIL BRAND • ALTERNATIVE SCORE BY CHRIS WATSON
• RESTORING UNDERGROUND (2009, 9 MINUTES)
Kino Classics is proud to present this sparkling restoration from the BFI National Archive, bringing this charming underground subway romance back into the light.
Special Features: NEWLY COMMISSIONED SCORE BY NEIL BRAND • ALTERNATIVE SCORE BY CHRIS WATSON
• RESTORING UNDERGROUND (2009, 9 MINUTES)
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