Fox's forthcoming Murnau/Borzage box set

Amazon have it on pre-order for ~167 dollars

This is some pretty thrilling shit, no? Even one year ago, who would have expected such a thing to exist. Out of all of these films, I have seen "Sunrise" and "Seventh Heaven" only.

had no idea Borzage (just before Lang) did a Liliom.

i will never own this, but it does look pretty great. i also know nothing about 4 devils, and expect it'll only be heartbreaking frustrating to investigate into.

The "4 Devils" documentary is on the existing edition of "Sunrise", I couldn't actually watch it all the way through, it was too sad. Heartbreakingly frustrating indeed.

I'm curious about the alternative European cut of "Sunrise". I had no idea this existed. I fear it's going to be no more DVDs for me till december to raise the cash for this, but I think it'll be worth it. I'm actually really impressed w/Fox for putting this out, they could have just put out the 2 Murnaus, and 7th Heaven/Street Angel/Lucky Star and people would likeley have been amazed that such a thing even existed.

a pic:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/protectedimage.php?image=CoverArt/murnauborzagefox_r1beauty.jpg_16092008

eh, it's linked off the bottom of this article:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=68876

I don't understand why they're linking the directors together. Why not release a Borzage box and a separate Murnau collection? (I know the real reason: Murnau is a more well-known name than Borzage, but released less on Fox. Also, it's another attempt at making Sunrise expensive/rare.)

fox had some success with the mega-Ford box set, so they are trying to do something even bigger for the film geek crew.

i saw Bad Girl a few years ago, it's just ok but admittedly the print I saw was shit so maybe they had a better source for the trsnsfer.

Street Angel is really good. Reminds me of La Strada. Wonder if Fellini & Masina ever saw it.

This probably ain't the place to post it, but according to DVD Beaver, Kino's dropping some D.W. Griffith in November

The titles:

Abraham Lincoln/The Struggle
Way Down East
Sally Of The Sawdust
The Avenging Conscience

The documentary is first-rate: intelligent and not too hagiographic.

Soto (or anyone who has this already) - Did you buy yours at a brick and mortar or via Amazon or...?

Netflix! But you can send me a used copy.

I want it at a brick and mortar at Amazon's price NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(screaming like a little kid; throwing temper tantrum; banging fists on floor) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE25647859iufidh y357ty#$%^&*(#$%^&*$%^&*OPERT

Guess what I just got with xmas money.....

New drapes?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34818373@N05/sets/72157613052820077/

just saw a Borzage @Republic film on TCM, Moonrise; what an odd, fevered little picture.

oh, I see it's one of Kevin's 20 favorite '40s films. The opening and the Ferris wheel are somethin'.

beautiful film, kinda stops making sense towards the end? (it's been a while)
the lead actress is so gorgeous

yeah, it tries to have as upbeat an ending as possible for a mad killer. kind of astonishing for the period, really.

Bad Girl goes by in a breeze

Strange Cargo tonight.

i saw FB's Liliom yesterday, which gets awfully talky and "Mr Jordany" when HB Warner shows up in the afterlife, but has some marvelously abstract sets and a great streetscum part for Lee Tracy. (also maybe Rose Hobart's best role til she was recut by Joseph Cornell)

The climactic moral gets to "he hit me (and it felt like a kiss)" 30 years before Goffin-King.

UCLA Borzage retro:

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/2015/07/10/7th-heaven-films-frank-borzage

saw a Borzage Universal film Little Man, What Now? (title of novel/film later pinched by Morrissey), a 1934 marital romance of poor folk in Weimar Germany. Goddamn, Margaret Sullavan was great in everyuthing, huh?

As far as I know.

sexiest voice in the history of film.

also the lead actor in LMWN, Douglass Montgomery, is sorta pretty and awkward, but given that his character is rather "emo" it works well.

http://150597036.r.cdn77.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mc7.jpg

Man's Castle sure is somethin'.

so fabuloso

solid print on YouTube btw, and most Borzage too -- even Three Comrades, which I used to own on VHS.

Working my way through the Murnau, Borzage and Fox set. (Daedalus Books has it for $50.) A verrry bad idea, given my current emotional fragility and longing.

out on CC

https://www.criterion.com/films/28550-moonrise

holy moly Sunrise is pretty good huh?

Moonrise might be better

TCM aired The Mortal Storm on Friday: one of the few American studio films to call out Nazis for being anti-Semitic and illiterate. Stewart and Sullavan don't have much to do beside serve the mechanics of the plot, but the plot has enough pathos.

Havent’t seen that one in ages, but remember it being similar to what you describe.

Oh wait. It is on TCM for a bit, maybe I can rewatch.