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Bed and Sofa
(1927)
on

2004 Image Entertainment edition

Bed and Sofa (1927), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, with Chess Fever (1925), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

Image Entertainment, ID5753DSDVD, 0-14381-57532-3.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided?, dual-layered? DVD disc, Region 1, Dolby Digital 5.0 stereo sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $24.99.
DVD release date: 9 March 2004.
Country of origin: USA

We have not viewed this DVD. The disc has been mastered from a new preservation print and features newly-translated intertitles. The film is accompanied by music performed by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra from a score compiled by Rodney Sauer and Susan Hall.

This DVD includes audio commentary for Bed and Sofa by Julian Graffy, professor of Russian Literature and Cinema at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, and author of Bed and Sofa: The Film Companion (I.B. Taurus Publishers, 2001).

Interestingly, Chess Fever is presented with both English intertitles and Russian intertitles on the alternate video angle. The film is accompanied by new music by Rodney Sauer.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.
Other Russian silent era films available on DVD home video:
Aelita (1924)
Arsenal (1928)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
By the Law (1926)
The Cameraman’s Revenge and Other Fantastic Tales: Ladislaw Starewicz (1912-1958)
Chess Fever (1925)
Earth (1930)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927)
The Girl with the Hatbox (1927)
Glumov’s Diary (1923)
Kino-Eye (1924)
Mad Love: The Films of Evgeni Bauer (1913-1917)
Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
Mother (1926)
My Grandmother (1929)
October (1928)
Old and New (1929)
Storm Over Asia (1928)
Strike (1924)
Zvenigora (1927)

About Russian filmmakers:
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)
 
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