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Pierre Alcover, Marie Glory, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Yvette Guilbert
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監 督 |
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Marcel L'Herbier
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A pristine transfer from a fine grain print struck from the original negative, featuring the director’s cut fought for by L’Herbier over many years, the film speed as projected in the late 1920s, and the entirety of each frame fully displayed
New and improved English subtitles
Newly improvised musical accompaniment by French composer and pianist Jean-François Zygel, who also provides a video introduction to the film and a documentary about accompanying silent cinema
About L’Argent (Autour de L'Argent) (1928) - Jean Dreville’s 40 minute “making of” documentary
Archival footage of star Brigitte Helm (fresh from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis) arriving in Paris for the shooting of L’Herbier’s film
Archival screen tests of the L’Argent actors
Marcel L’Herbier: Poet of the Silent Art (Marcel L’Herbier: Poete de L’Art Silencieux) (2007) – a 54 minute documentary profiling the director
A demonstration of L’Herbier’s innovative sound techniques, which used 78rpm records during key scenes of L'Argent
A lavish 80-page perfectly-bound booklet with archival publicity stills, a long essay by noted professor of French film Richard Abel (French Cinema: The First Wave, 1915-1929; French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939; The Cine Goes to Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914), newly translated interviews with L'Herbier, and newly translated extracts from the director’s biography. |
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