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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 Holy Mountain
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 2003 Kino International edition
The Holy Mountain (1926), color-tinted black & white, 105 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K307, UPC 7-38329-03072-8.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 16 chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 12 August 2003.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 9 / additional content: 3 / overall: 6.
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 This NTSC edition has been mastered from the best available 35mm film elements, the 2001 restoration print licensed by Transit Film and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, with very-good results. The subsequent full-frame, natural-speed video transfer for this edition looks pretty good, even on high-definition equipment, rendering a reasonably film-like picture when the standard NTSC signal is upscaled to 1080p HD.
The presentation is accompanied by a jazzy small orchestra music score by Aljoscha Zimmermann.
Half supplemental material and half advertisement for their DVD edition of The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), the disc adds filmed interviews with Riefenstahl and Louis Trenker on the making of The Holy Mountain exerpted from the documentary.
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com. |
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Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca. |
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 2004 Eureka Entertainment edition
The Holy Mountain (1926), black & white, 106 minutes, classification U,
with The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), color and black & white, 180 minutes, not rated.
Eureka Entertainment, EKA40072 (MoC 2), unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, two single-sided, dual-layered DVD discs, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, German language intertitles, English language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, £22.99.
DVD release date: 21 June 2004.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL edition from Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series has been mastered from the 2001 35mm restoration print, and features new musical accompaniment in 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo by Aljoscha Zimmerman. The disc also features the documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) by Ray Müller.
United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 2 PAL DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk. |
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Other silent era Leni Riefenstahl films available on home video:
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
Other GERMAN silent era films available on home video.
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