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SILENT ERA FILMS ON HOME VIDEO
Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
Copyright © 1999-2009 by Carl Bennett.
All Rights Reserved.
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The Dragon Painter
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Sessue Hayakawa and Tsuru Aoki star in this romantic tale of a mad, reclusive Japanese artist who believes that his love has been captured by a dragon. Discovered by a surveyor, he is brought to the attention of a famed painter who is looking for an apprentice, but whose daughter the young artist sees as his fantasy fiancée. She becomes the nexus of a clash of hopes, desires and wills between the old and young artists.
The film was recovered in a French-language export print, and has been restored by the George Eastman House film archive.
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 2008 Milestone Film & Video edition
The Dragon Painter (1919), color-toned black & white, 53 minutes, not rated,
with The Wrath of the Gods (1914), color-toned black & white, 60 minutes, not rated, and Screen Snapshots (1921), black & white, 5 minutes, not rated.
Milestone Film & Video, MILE00108,
UPC 7-84148-01084-7, ISBN 978-1-933920-078.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 0, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 18 March 2008.
Country of origin: USA
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This Hayakawa double-bill features The Dragon Painter transferred from the recent 35mm restoration by the George Eastman House film archive, coupled with their 35mm restoration of The Wrath of the Gods. The features are supplemented with a Hayakawa appearance in a novelty short, the original script for The Wrath of the Gods, a stills gallery, an essay by Brian Taves, and the text of the source novel, The Dragon Painter by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. The features are accompanied by music scores by Mark Izu and Marco Lienhard.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 0 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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