{"title":"The Milestone Collection","description":"All our titles!","products":[{"product_id":"araya","title":"Araya","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBuy the DVD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kinolorber.com\/product\/araya-dvd\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Kino Lorber\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/files\/KinoLorber_480x480.png?v=1629901587\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eStream or Download Now\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/milestone.vhx.tv\/products\/araya\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"“Vimeo”\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/files\/Vimeo_480x480.png?v=1629901020\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\"\u003e \u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2XgbbioDPzM\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOMING IN 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NEW 4K RESTORATION IN HONOR \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOF MARGOT BENACERRAF'S CENTENNIAL!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant film \u003ci\u003eAraya\u003c\/i\u003e is a landmark in cinema history. The film was hailed as a masterpiece of poetic cinema and a forerunner of feminist Latina cinema on it's re-release by Milestone. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eThe peninsula of Araya in northeastern Venezuela, is one of the most arid places on earth. For five hundred years, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region’s salt has been exploited manually. A 17th-century fortress built to protect against pirate raids stands as a reminder of the days when salt was worth almost as much as gold and great fortunes were made. Benacerraf captures the life of the salineros and their back-breaking work in breathtaking images. The Peredas family works at night in the salt marshes, the Ortiz are fishermen and the Salaz collect salt. The three stories underline the harsh life of this region — all of which vanished with the arrival of industrial exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eAraya was originally compared to Flaherty’s \u003ci\u003eMan of Aran\u003c\/i\u003e, Visconti’s \u003ci\u003eLa Terra Trema\u003c\/i\u003e (1947) and Rossellini’s \u003ci\u003eIndia\u003c\/i\u003e (1957). Margot Benacerraf has described the film as \u003ci\u003e“a cinematic narration based on script writing rather than a spontaneous action, a feature documentary, the opposite of Italian neorealism.”\u003c\/i\u003e A film of such lasting beauty that Jean Renoir told Benacerraf after seeing the film: \u003ci\u003e“Above all … don’t cut a single image!”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Majestic...Arresting...Overwhelming beauty!\"\u003c\/i\u003e—Richard Brody, \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER MAGAZINE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/wnyc.org\/story\/59269-araya\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Margot Bennaceraf on WNYC!\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eListen to Margot Benacerraf and Milestone's Dennis Doros talking about ARAYA on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#ff0000\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eAlso available in 35mm prints for Theatrical and Nontheatrical\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis DVD and Blu-ray are also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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The first feature-length documentary about lesbian and gay identity made by gay filmmakers, the film had a huge impact when it was released and became an icon of the emerging gay rights movement of the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn honor of its place in our collective history, Word is Out was selected for the Legacy Project for GLBT Film Preservation by Outfest and the UCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive. The original film negative was recently restored, and the re-mastered 35 mm print was shown at gala festival events at Outfest in Los Angeles and Frameline in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 30th anniversary DVD has been mastered from the restored 35mm theatrical version of the film and supervised by Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive and the Mariposa Film Group. The DVD also includes exclusive updates on the cast and the filmmakers, and an homage to Peter Adair, originator and inspired producer of Word is Out, who died of AIDS in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eWord Is Out\u003c\/strong\u003e impacted audiences around the world in 1978 by destroying stereotypes of the gay experience. Today, the power of this film lies not only in its disarming interviews but in how these beautifully woven interviews stand as a watershed to our history. These stories are a record of our struggles, our dissension, our joys, our loves and our lives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The filmmakers capture the innocence and charm of 26 people—ranging in age from 18 to 77, from San Francisco to New Mexico to Boston, from beehived housewife to sultry drag queen. You will laugh at the irony as one woman explains how doctors put her on a diet of two salads a day to cure her 'sickness.' You might feel humbled or grateful as one ex-member of the Women's Army Corps tells how the women expected to get beat up for dancing in gay bars by angry servicemen in the late 1940s and early 50s. 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When the film first opened it 1956, it exploded on the screen, burning away years of Hollywood artifice, jump-starting the post-war American independent scene and earning an Oscar nomination. Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, \u003ci\u003eON THE BOWERY\u003c\/i\u003e is simultaneously an incredible document of a bygone era and a vivid and devastating portrait of addiction that resonates today just as it did when it was made.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor songwriter Woody Guthrie, his guitar was a machine that \u003ci\u003e“kills fascists.”\u003c\/i\u003e For Lionel Rogosin, the weapon of choice was a movie camera and his first battle was waged on the streets of New York City. Exploring the underworld of the city’s skid row, Rogosin developed his signature style. After months drinking with men he met on the Bowery, Rogosin worked with them to write a screenplay that reflected their lives and then cast his drinking buddies as themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected: 2008 National Film Registry by the Library of Congress\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner: 2010 National Society of Film Critics’ Film Heritage Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlso on the BluRay and DVD:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGOOD TIMES, WONDERFUL TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was Rogosin’s plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. 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More than seventy-five years later, this enchanting film still stands as one of the great classics of animation — beautiful, mesmerizing and utterly seductive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaken from \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures — joining forces with Aladdin and the Witch of the Fiery Mountains, doing battle with the sorcerer's army of monsters and demons, and falling in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis cinematic treasure has been beautifully restored with its spectacular color tinting and with a new orchestral recording of the magnificent 1926 score by Wolfgang Zeller. Thrilling, sensuous and dazzling, Prince Achmed will enthrall children and film enthusiasts of all ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eThe DVD collector's edition includes a marvelous 60-minute documentary on pioneer animator Lotte Reiniger and a 1921 commercial, The Secret of the Marquise, she did for a beauty cream company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThe Blu-ray two-disc edition includes the following short films by Lotte: The Secret of the Marquise, 1921; The Flying Coffer, 1921; Dr. Dolittle: Lion’s Den, 1923 (German and English versions); Dr. Dolittle: A Trip to Africa, 1923.; Dr. Dolittle: Cannibal Land, 1923; The Death-Feigning Chinaman, 1928; The Caliph Stork, 1935; The Magic Horse, 1953; Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, 1954; The Star of Bethlehem, 1956; The Lost Son, 1974.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#ff0000\"\u003eAlso available in beautiful hand-tinted and toned 35mm prints for theatrical and nontheatrical screenings. Please, contact Milestone for price and availability!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40799232557233,"sku":"","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/PrinceAchmed.jpg?v=1565624673"},{"product_id":"come-back-africa","title":"Come Back, Africa \/ Black Roots","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBuy the DVD or Blu-ray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kinolorber.com\/product\/come-back-africablack-roots-blu-ray\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Kino Lorber\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/files\/KinoLorber_480x480.png?v=1629901587\" onmouseout=\"this.src='https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/files\/KinoLorber_480x480.png?v=1629901587';\" onmouseover=\"this.src='https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/files\/KinoLorberBlack_480x480.png?v=1629902668';\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLionel Rogosin’s 1959 powerful classic \u003cem style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eCome Back, Africa\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the bravest and best of all political films. After witnessing firsthand the terrors of fascism as a soldier in World War II, Lionel Rogosin vowed to fight against it wherever and whenever he saw it reemerging. 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Residents included Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Father Trevor Huddleston, Hugh Masekela and three of the film’s main contributors – author\/journalists Bloke Modisane and Can Themba and the already celebrated singer, Miriam Makeba. But even as they filmed, Sophiatown was already in the process of being demolished and its residents forcibly removed. Shortly after production ended, Sophiatown was emptied, razed and rebuilt as a whites-only suburb called Triumf. (Makeba, later known world-wide as “Mamma Africa,” helped popularize “Meadowlands,” a song against the forced removals, and in 1959 recorded “Sophiatown is Gone.”)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn making \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCome Back, Africa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, Rogosin’s goal was to reveal the harsh injustice of apartheid. 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The extraordinary cast, including Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, attorney and feminist activist Florynce \"Flo\" Kennedy, musicians Jim Collier, Wende Smith, Larry Johnson and Reverend Gary Davis tell stories of heartbreak and despair while their songs blow the roof off the rafters. 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Mono sound. Aspect ratio 4:3. Restoration Cineteca\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003edel Comune di Bologna. From the 2K Restoration. SDH subtitles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Martin Scorsese Introduction. 2 minutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn American in Sophiatown The making of Come Back, Africa. Directed by Michael Rogosin \u0026amp;\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLloyd Ross. 64 minutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLionel Rogosin talks about Come Back, Africa. Radio Interview, 1978, 19 minutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCome Back, Africa Theatrical Trailer. 2 minutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDisc two\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack Roots United States. 1970, 63 minutes. Mono Sound. Aspect ratio: 4:3. SDH subtitles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBitter Sweet Stories Directed by Michael Rogosin. 27 minutes. Color\/B\u0026amp;W. Documentary on the making\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof Black Roots.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHave You Seen Drum Recently? Directed by Jürgen Schadeberg. 1989, 74 minutes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis DVD and Blu-ray are also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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Created by a woman director, Shirley Clarke, at a time when they were in very short supply, the film shattered stereotypes in just about every conceivable way. And yet, the film remained unseen for many years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShirley Clarke was a vital part of the burgeoning post-war American film movement. She was one of the first signers — and the only woman — of the New American Cinema manifesto in 1961. \u003c\/span\u003eFor her first feature film, she decided to take on a controversial play by Jack Gelber that was running off-Broadway. The Connection was a play within a play within a jazz concert. It portrayed a group of drug addicts, some of them jazz musicians, waiting in a New York loft apartment for their drug connection. A producer and a writer, meanwhile, have entered their lives to study them and write a play about them. The brilliantly written Beat dialogue was blended with jazz music written by the great pianist Freddie Redd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eClarke changed the character of the writer to Jim Dunn, a young, preppy filmmaker out to make a name for himself by documenting the \"scene.\" As Clarke was best friends with the hot new indie directors, she added a level of humor by poking fun at the cinema verité movement. She also chose to keep the play's one-set constriction, but she combined the French New Wave’s mobile camera with a whirling choreography of movement and jazz to create an exciting, kinetic film that was acclaimed at the Cannes International Film Festival as a masterpiece. Yet even knowing the avant garde nature of the play and her film, little could Clarke recognize the furor the film was about to create.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlthough Hollywood had previously depicted drug addiction in the recent years, it was mostly of the good men gone bad scenario with tragic endings. THE CONNECTION, with the raw, graphic depiction of drug addicts that Gelber wrote for the stage,  A hit at Cannes, it was promptly banned by government censor boards for indecent language and a struggle ensued to have it theatrically screened in the United States. After a two-year battle, the producers and director ultimately won in court and as important as it was judicially, it was sadly a case of too little too late as the film lost its timeliness and failed at the box office. But among filmmakers, it was highly influential. The film has been out of distribution since the early 1980s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eArthur Ornitz's black-and-white cinematography sparkles on the screen, and the performances of Freddie Redd and saxophone legend Jackie McLean sound impeccable in the new UCLA restoration. The release of THE CONNECTION is one of the cinema events of the year!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Connection was preserved by the UCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive with funding by the Film Foundation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBONUS FEATURES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Connection Home Movies (B\u0026amp;W, 6:27.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Conversation with Albert Brenner. (4:35 minutes.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eConnecting with Freddie Redd (27 minutes.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Connection-Behind The Scenes. (5:50 minutes.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Connection trailer (1:36 minutes)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarl and Max at the Chelsea (04:11 minutes.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo 45rpm songs: Who Killed Cock Robin and I’m in Love\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the bonus features listed on the box cover was a 29-minute radio interview. Due to the poor quality of the sound (and the fact that it didn't really pertain to THE CONNECTION, it was left off at the last minute. However! you can now listen to it for free on our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user4412172\/review\/117933886\/b68afdb752\" title=\"Shirley Clarke radio interview\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVimeo site\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eListen to Wendy Clarke, Garry Goodrow and Milestone's Dennis Doros talking about THE CONNECTION on WNYC's Leonard Opate Show!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F206167%2F;containerClass=wnyc\" width=\"474\" height=\"54\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis DVD and Blu-ray are also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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By the time she was six, she had made more than 150 popular shorts and a star of feature films. In fact, she was one of the most popular stars in Hollywood with a line of Baby Peggy products sold in stores around the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBy the age of 11, however, she was a has-been, forced to work eight shows a day in Vaudeville. And soon, like rival silent film star Jackie Coogan, she was broke, her money squandered by her family. Over the course of the next six decades she reinvented herself as Diana Serra Cary, a respected film historian and advocate for laws protecting child performers. With narration co-written by Cary, Vera Iwerebor's documentary combines rare clips from Baby Peggy's films — most of which were lost when her first studio, Century, burned in 1926 — with a personal glimpse of a woman who lost her childhood to the movies. Although Cary was once rejected by Hollywood, where she was blacklisted after her father feuded with producer Sol Lesser, her remaining films, including the first movie version of \u003ci\u003eCaptain January\u003c\/i\u003e (1924), have been rediscovered, bringing her a new generation of fans. Documentarian Vera Iwerebor has created a film, that like Ms. Cary, is filled of warmth, humor and a love for cinema and life.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBONUS FEATURES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaptain January\u003c\/strong\u003e (1924) 64 minutes. Starring Hobart Bosworth, Baby Peggy and Irene Rich. Music composed and performed by Donald Sosin. With Joanna Seaton (vocals).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree short films starring Baby Peggy: \u003cstrong\u003eCarmen, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e (1923), \u003cstrong\u003ePeg O’ the Mounted\u003c\/strong\u003e (1924) and \u003cstrong\u003eSuch is Life\u003c\/strong\u003e (1924).  Music composed and performed by Guenter Buchwald.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSong: \u003cstrong\u003e“That’s My Baby”\u003c\/strong\u003e performed by Donald Sosin (piano) and Joanna Seaton (vocals).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVIDEO LIBRARIAN\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNovember-December 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5;\"\u003eBaby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room ***1\/2\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eFilmmaker Vera Iwerebor's excellent documentary tells the strange and often tragic story of Diana Serra Cary, who is now in her 90s but became one of Hollywood's biggest stars -- known as Baby Peggy -- before the age of 10. Discovered as a mere toddler when her father, Jack, moved his family to Hollywood to work as a stuntman and horseman, Baby Peggy was on par with Jackie Coogan and Shirley Temple as a box-office draw, at one point making $1.5 million annually. During that time, she received no education or protection from existing child labor laws, and a jealous Jack publicly took credit for her success. And then, suddenly, as these stories often go, it was all over. Baby Peggy's studio contract was cancelled at the same time her management team -- family members -- stole all of her money, forcing her to go on the road as a breadwinner to perform multiple shows a day on the vaudeville circuit. The film delves into successive chapters in Baby Peggy's rollercoaster ride through success and failure, identifying the moment she finally began taking the reins of her life, rebooting her identity as \"Diana\" and finding happiness with her second husband and only child. Sharp, charming, and full of memories, Cary appears on camera throughout, speaking at film festivals where a few of her surviving movies screen before appreciative audiences. Viewers also learn about Cary's work as a Hollywood historian and author, as well as her advocacy of greater protection for child performers. Extras include three short films starring Baby Peggy, as well as the 1924 feature-length Captain January, and a music video. A wonderfully entertaining profile, this is highly recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh) \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" color=\"#0000ff\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis DVD and Blu-ray are also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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But when British government officials saw the films, directed by cinema genius Alfred Hitchcock. They labeled them \"inflammatory,\" shelved them and tried to forget they were ever made.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBon Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Scottish RAF air gunner, who has escaped from a POW camp in Germany and made it safely back to Britain, is being interrogated by a Free French Intelligence officer. 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In 1924, neophyte filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack hooked up with journalist and sometime spy Marguerite Harrison and set off to film an adventure. They found excitement, danger and unparalleled drama in the migration of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia (now Iran). Twice a year, more than 50,000 people and half a million animals surmounted seemingly impossible obstacles to take their herds to pasture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe filmmakers captured unforgettable images of courage and determination as the Bakhtiari braved the raging and icy waters of the half-mile-wide Karun River. Cooper and Schoedsack almost froze when they filmed the breathtaking, almost unbelievable, sight of an endless river of men, women and children--their feet bare or wrapped in rags — winding up the side of the sheer, snow-covered rock face of the 15,000-foot-high Zardeh Kuh mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough many documentary historians consider \"Grass\" second only to \"Nanook of the North,\" few people have actually ever seen this legendary film. This restored and full-length version, complete with an authentic new Iranian score, will astonish today’s audiences with its beautiful photography and heart-stopping adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere are a limited number of DVDs left for sale (there are fewer than 50 remaining), so order soon!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nListen to Oscar-winning Kevin Brownlow and Milestone's Dennis Doros talking about the fabulous career of Merian. C. Cooper on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show! \u003ciframe width=\"474\" height=\"54\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F51600%2F;containerClass=wnyc\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#ff0000\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eGRASS is available in DCP and 35mm prints for theatrical and nontheatrical screenings. 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Anu, a shy young boy from rural East Pakistan (Bangladesh, as it is now known) is sent away by his father Kazi, an orthodox Muslim, to a Madrasah - or Islamic- school. Far from his family and the warmth of his region's Hindu festivities, Anu struggles to adapt to the school's harsh monastic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the political divisions in the country intensify, an increasing split develops between moderate and extremist forces within the Madrasah. 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Exactly 100 years ago this year, this young man fresh off the stage, started working at the Christie Film Company. During the next decade he worked as a juvenile lead, a gag writer and a comedy director. When he changed his name to Charley Chase and found himself featured in the Hal Roach’s short comedies, he became one of the great geniuses and stars of Hollywood’s golden era of silent comedy.  As renowned as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd at the time, Chase easily matched them laugh for laugh. 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Using rare archival footage from Russian state film archives and private collections, the brothers' lives and art are traced from Bialystok to Moscow, Paris, and Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhiladephia Weekly \u003c\/strong\u003eby Sam Adams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Coppola clan has nothing on the Kaufmans, a family of geniuses to rival the Tenenbaums, even if their names may not immediately click in your head. Practitioners of impossible shots, editing\/camera tricks and improvisation in general, brothers David, Moisey and Boris get highlighted in Yevgeni Tsymbal's succinct Russian doc. David Kaufman became Dziga Vertov, a last name he chose because it was Polish for \"spinning top\"-which is a perfectly apt description of his 1929 opus Man With the Movie Camera. If Movie Camera's not the best documentary ever made, it's at least the most visually ravishing. (As pointed out frequently enough to diminish its merits, the post-MTV filmmaker generation-and Leni Riefenstahl-would be nowhere without it.) The other two brothers went in different directions, though Moisey worked alongside Dziga on Movie Camera before their estrangement turned him into one of Dziga's doc-making rivals. (From the clips we see, he's just about his equal, too.) Boris, meanwhile, spread the style westward, first to France to work with Jean Vigo (L'Atalante), then to America, garnering him both an Oscar for shooting On the Waterfront and frequent employment by Sidney Lumet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVILLAGE VOICE \u003c\/strong\u003eby J. Hoberman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid, Moisey, and Boris Kaufman—\"perhaps the most talented brothers in the history of cinema\" per film historian Yevgeni Tsymbal—were born in Bialystok (the \"most Jewish town in Poland\") to a used-book dealer and a rabbi's daughter. The town suffered a major pogrom during their childhoods, and their parents would eventually perish in the Holocaust, but the Kaufman brothers attended Russian school and reinvented themselves in the crucible of revolution: David most radically as docu-visionary Dziga. Mikhail (né Moisey) worked with his older brother—he is the title character in The Man With a Movie Camera—until they quarreled and he too became a director. Baby Boris went first to France, collaborating with Jean Vigo, and then to America. Dziga was targeted during Stalin's Cold War anti-cosmopolitan campaign; he suffered a heart attack and died in obscurity months before Boris won an Oscar for shooting On the Waterfront.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40995781312689,"sku":"","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/Dziga_And_Brothers.jpg?v=1332299918"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volumes-1-and-2-beginnings-folklore-and-legend","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume 1 and 2: Beginnings \/ Folklore and Legend","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Russian Cinema Volume One: Beginnings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp a=\"\" fish=\"\" factory=\"\" in=\"\" astrakhan=\"\" is=\"\" part=\"\" of=\"\" the=\"\" path=\"\" fr=\"\" res=\"\" series=\"\" picturesque=\"\" russia=\"\" typical=\"\" their=\"\" efficient=\"\" documentary=\"\" company=\"\" had=\"\" established=\"\" moscow=\"\" equipment=\"\" and=\"\" sales=\"\" office=\"\" which=\"\" also=\"\" rented=\"\" french-made=\"\" films=\"\" to=\"\" s=\"\" burgeoning=\"\" cinema=\"\" network=\"\" it=\"\" was=\"\" emergence=\"\" drankov=\"\" as=\"\" first=\"\" self-declared=\"\" indigenous=\"\" producer=\"\" that=\"\" prompted=\"\" start=\"\" production=\"\" february=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSten’ka Razin\u003c\/i\u003e has the distinction of being the first Russian dramatic production — a tribute to the determination of its producer, Aleksandr Drankov. When his first seventeen actualities failed to win serious attention in early 1908, he answered the widespread call for Russian-made films with \u003ci\u003eSten’ka Razin\u003c\/i\u003e. This account of the popular brigand leader who dallied with a captured Persian princess was adapted from a traditional ballad “From the Island to the Deep Stream” and Drankov commissioned original music to accompany his film from no less than Ippolitov-lvanov, then head of the Moscow Conservatoire. Energetic promotion ensured the film’s commercial success and launched Drankov’s career as a producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrincess Tarakanova\u003c\/i\u003e marked the arrival of the film d’art formula in Russia. By this time, the original Film d’Art company had become a subsidiary of Pathé, but its first success, \u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of the Duc de Guise\u003c\/i\u003e (1908), remained a prestige model for films aimed at “cultured” audiences with their lavish attention to costume, decor and theatrical acting. This first Russian example was based on a play about the martyred Princess and boasted a cast of well-known actors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRomance with a Double Bass\u003c\/i\u003e: “If we are not mistaken, this is the first cinema interpretation of Chekhov’s works. And one must give them their due — they have treated it with all the respect owed to the name of Anton Pavlovich. This excellently acted film is further distinguished by the striking purity and richness of the photography and the beauty of the locations in which the action takes place.’’ (Sinefono, 1911, no.2)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEarly Russian Cinema Volume Two: FOLKLORE AND LEGEND\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1908 saw the belated start of Russian film production. Up to this point, imported films from France, America, Britain, and the other main European producers had satisfied a rapidly expanding exhibition market. But there was also growing demand for truly Russian pictures — one which the entrepreneurial Drankov first tapped with his \u003ci\u003eSten’ka Razin\u003c\/i\u003e, launched with a fanfare in October 1908. The producer who was to become his only real rival over the next ten years did not manage to release his first film until two months later and then it proved a commercial failure — “thus the dream of releasing Russia’s first picture on an everyday theme,” Khanzhonkov recalled in 1937, “failed to materialize.” Today, however, this simple gypsy tale has a plein air freshness and authenticity (it used real gypsies) which \u003ci\u003eSten’ka Razin\u003c\/i\u003e lacks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut this ex-cavalry officer was undaunted. Recruiting the determined Goncharov as his director, Khanzhonkov backed a group of three historical scenarios, of which \u003ci\u003eRussian Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e was one. Accounts of the filming reveal how little experience was available, but Goncharov’s attention to setting and costume — and his assistant Chardynin’s help with the actors — resulted in films that had immediate appeal, not least for nationalistic reasons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRusalka\u003c\/i\u003e, based on Pushkin’s play about a prince and a mermaid, followed in Goncharov’s resolutely ornate style, with Fester once again creating a decor based on the popular narrative painting of the time. The film’s trick effects and surreal underwater set are less typical of Russian production and may reflect the popularity of Pathé’s trick films at this time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1911, when the unreleased \u003ci\u003eBrigand Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e was started, Goncharov’s pantomime style seemed dated. Yet with the future star Mozzhukhin already showing his quality, and superb locations around the Moscow River, he managed one of the most expressive of all early classic adaptations — in this case Pushkin’s epic poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40995782230193,"sku":"","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/EarlyRussianVolume1_3.jpg?v=1332300622"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volume-3-starewiczs-fantasies","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume 3: Starewicz's Fantasies","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Starewicz is one of those cinemagicians whose name deserves to stand in film history alongside those of Méliès, Emil Cohl and Disney.”\u003c\/i\u003e Charles Ford’s 1958 claim could scarcely be verified until recent years — as Jayne Pilling noted in her 1983 booklet — due to the unavailability of most of Starewicz’s films to view. During the 80s, his stock rose rapidly as archival co-operation made at least some of the key films visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese, however, were mainly from his French period and were vastly different from his very earliest Russian insect fables. What the opening up of Romanov cinema has revealed is the much wider range of his work in the years 1913-17, including a few surviving examples of his all-live-action films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection includes examples of the three main strands of his early work. First, \u003ci\u003eThe Dragonfly and the Ant\u003c\/i\u003e, based on a fable by the classic Russian writer Krylov, reveals the poetic elegance of Starewicz’s debut. The film was shown at court and rewarded by a gift and praise from the Tsar — which also reflected well on Starewicz’s patron, Khanzkonkov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdaptations of Gogol were another constant thread running through Starewicz’s work up to 1919, giving full rein to a love of the grotesque and the macabre which is also evident in the animal puppet films. \u003ci\u003eChristmas Eve\u003c\/i\u003e — which includes one of Mozzhukhin’s oddest character roles, as the devil — was apparently a great success, hailed by a contemporary reviewer as “sparkling with pure Gogolesque humor and ... accompanied by continuous laughter from the public.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussia’s entry into the Great War produced a wave of patriotic propaganda from artists in many media. Starewicz’s contribution varied from the knockabout satire of \u003ci\u003eMars’ Stepson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow the German General Signed a Pact with the Devil\u003c\/i\u003e (both 1914) to the curious and touching \u003ci\u003eLily of Belgium\u003c\/i\u003e. This uses one of his favorite techniques of mixing live-action with stop-frame animation to create an unashamed allegory of the German rape of Belgium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE DRAGONFLY AND THE ANT (Strekoza i muravei).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDirector\/Screenplay\/Photography\/Art Direction: Ladislaw Starewicz. Based on Krylov’s fable. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released February 22, 1913.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHRISTMAS EVE (Noch’pered rozhdestvom).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDirector\/Screenplay\/Photography\/Art Direction: Ladislaw Starewicz. Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released December 26, 1913. Cast: Ivan Mozzhukhin (Devil). Ol’ga Obolenskaia (Oksana). Lidiia Tridenskaia (Solokha). P. Lophukin (Vakula). A. Kheruvimov (Golova). Pavel Knorr (Chub).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE LILY OF BELGIUM (Liliia Bel’gii; also known as The Suffering and Resurrection of Belgium and An Allegory of Today).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDirector\/Screenplay\/Photography\/Art Director: Ladislaw Starewicz. Text: Boris Martov. Production Company: Skobelev Committee. Released 1915? Cast: Irina Starewicz.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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But as the audience grew rapidly, smaller provincial entrepreneurs sought to establish themselves in what had become a highly profitable business. The two films in this program are examples of how this also introduced novelty into the mainstream of production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSlavinskii’s own account (from a 1940 interview) of how he came to make \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding Day\u003c\/i\u003e is revealing. He recalled being asked by “Mr. Mintus owner of a film distribution company in Warsaw’’ to make some art films. The concept of the film d’art had recently been popularized by Pathé’s successful development of the original French examples. But as Slavinskii explained “to tell the truth, it was not really a matter of making real films d’art but rather shooting material of a documentary type.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe continued: “In a small town in Silesia I met a travelling company of Jews whose performances were immensely successful in many Polish cities and we made some films together. We had no proper director and our productions were the result of collective effort.’’ Nonetheless, they were apparently successful, which we may assume was due to the exotic novelty and obvious authenticity of such material as \u003ci\u003eThe Wedding Day\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerchant Bashkirov’s Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e offers a remarkable insight into the sociology of the early Russian cinema industry. For Libken based his first production closely on an actual murder scandal — apparently with the intention of blackmailing the Bashkirov family! Whether they paid up or threatened legal action, the result was a solemn announcement in the trade press that the film would be released under the less specific title, \u003ci\u003eDrama on the Volga\u003c\/i\u003e, “because the heroine’s surname is identical to that of some well-known merchants in a certain town on the Volga — by sheer coincidence of course.” Thanks to the surrounding publicity, Libken also managed to sell his independent production to Pathé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film itself, despite such murky origins (and two missing reels), impresses as one of the most unexpected of all early Russian titles preserved. Nothing in our experience of Western popular movie morality prepares us for the lover’s accidental death and the horrific sequence of events that follows. Is such a non-moralizing perspective, especially associated with heroines, a distinctive feature of Russian cinema — or is it in some way a result of this film’s determined search for sensationalism? There may not be enough evidence to decide, but this fragment poses a tantalizing challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE WEDDING DAY (Den’venchaniia or Yom Hakhupe).\u003c\/strong\u003eDirector\/Photography: Evgenii Slavinskii. Based on a play by Iakov Gordin. Producer: S. Mintus (Riga). 1912. Release unknown. Cast: Artists from a troupe of Jewish travelling players.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMERCHANT BASHKIROV’S DAUGHTER (Doch’ kuptsa Bashkirova). Alternative title: Drama on the Volga (Drama na Volge). \u003c\/strong\u003eDirector\/Screenplay: Nikoloi Larin. Photography: I. Dored. Producer: Grigorii Libken. Production Company: Volga Co. (Iarolslavl’). Released November 19, 1913. Cast: unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40952652923057,"sku":"","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/EarlyRussianVolume13.jpg?v=1332300452"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volume-6-class-distinctions","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume 6: Class Distinctions","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary review acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Peasants’ Lot\u003c\/i\u003e as a fine picture on a subject “close to the heart of every Russian.” As well as applauding the “well-considered and excellent performances” by Goncharova and Mozzhukhin, the reviewer enthused over its choice of scenes from peasant life: “the scene at the races is wonderfully presented, the fire in the village vividly depicted, the pictures of rural life alternate successfully, hopeless poverty contrasting with the existence of a rich family in the capital.” Here was a ‘balanced’ view of the country, as seen from the city, which followed Goncharov’s solidly traditional approach, echoing the view of rural life familiar from Russian 19th-century literature. A film that clearly answered the urgent demand for “national” images that confirmed the increasingly unstable status quo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is impossible for us to see \u003ci\u003eSilent Witnesses \u003c\/i\u003etoday without some degree of hindsight. For this “upstairs-downstairs” drama of life below stairs shows a world that, unwittingly, stood on the brink of extinction. Fascinating also to compare the figure of the porter with Emil Jannings’ famous doorman over a decade later in \u003ci\u003eThe Last Laugh\u003c\/i\u003e. But the film has an undeniable edge to its portrayal of the upper classes and — is this hindsight? — a marked sympathy for its servant class. It also shows Bauer’s virtuoso visual style at its most ornate, using split-screen and subjective shots, as well as the very architecture of the house, to evoke the social structure that is its subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary review noted: \u003ci\u003e“Running through the film is the idea that people have still not shed their prejudices over white skin and blue blood. It is impossible not to single out the weak-willed, characterless whimperer exclusively preoccupied with his own pitiful ‘me’: he sees himself as the only thing of value in the world. The vitality of the idea, challenging bourgeois morality, is highly characteristic of both Russian and foreign dramas, and increases considerably the undoubted value of the film.”\u003c\/i\u003e [Silent Witnesses, ed. Tsivian et al, London\/Pordenone: 1989]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE PEASANTS’ LOT (Krest’ianskaia dolia).\u003c\/strong\u003e Director: Vasilii Goncharov. Screenplay: Arsenii Bibikov. Photography: Louis Forestier. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released November 13, 1912. Cast: Aleksandra Goncharova (Masha). Ivan Mozzhukhin (Petr). Petr Chardynin (Petr’s father). Arsenii Bibikov, Lidiia Tridenskaia (Maksim).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSILENT WITNESSES (Nemye svideteli).\u003c\/strong\u003e Director: Evgeni Bauer. Screenplay: Aleksandr Voznesenskii. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released April 29, 1914. Cast: Dora Chitorina (Nastia, a maid). Aleksandr Kheruvimov (A porter, her grandfather). Aleksandr Chargonin (Pavel Kostritsyn). El’sa Kriuger (Ellen, his bride). Andrei Gromov (Nastia’s fiancé, the neighbor’s lackey). Viktor Petipa (Baron von Rehren).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40952653709489,"sku":"","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/EarlyRussianVolume15.jpg?v=1332300503"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volume-7-evgeni-bauer","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume 7: Evgeni Bauer","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese three contrasting films by the magnificent and macabre Evgeni Bauer reveal something of the distinctive eroticism of his work and indeed of early Russian cinema as a whole. The two longer films share the common feature of a male victim, in marked contrast to the female victim of most melodrama; while the comedy \u003ci\u003eThe 1002nd Ruse\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates a knowing female sexuality that would almost certainly not be found in any contemporary American equivalent (although it has much in common with the contemporary sex comedies of Lubitsch and DeMille).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Child of the Big City traces the heroine Mon’ka’s evolution from a poor innocent seamstress to a monster of depravity and egotism. Her “rise” is paralleled by the fall of her idealistic admirer, Viktor, who finally commits suicide in face of her callous disregard. Film historian Miriam Hansen has noted this unusual variation on the familiar melodrama schema of the male aggressor and female victim: “Bauer’s contemporary urban and upper-class settings display male ruin and inadequacy as an effect of the real or imagined revenge of a powerful woman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaydreams is regarded by many as Bauer’s surviving masterpiece. Film historian and archivist Paolo Cherchi Usai describes it as “a masterful balance between subject technique and narrative development. The tension in the plot (reminding one of Hitchcock’s Vertigo) reaches its climax in the extraordinary tracking shot during which the camera quite literally follows the main character along a deserted street, stops when he stops, then tracks back slowly, while he retraces his route. Necrophilia, mysticism and abstraction are the main ingredients of a tale with an astonishing and eerie finale.’’ [Silent Witnesses, ed. Tsivian et al, London\/Pordenone: 1989]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA CHILD OF THE BIG CITY (Ditia bol’shogo goroda) Alternative title: The Girl From the Street (Devushka s ulitsy).\u003c\/strong\u003e Director\/Art Director: Evgeni Bauer. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Compony: Khanzhonkov. Released March 5, 1914. Cast: Elena Smirnova (Monechka\/Mary). Nina Kozlianinava (Mon’ka, the heroine, as a child). Mikhail Salarov (Viktor Kravtsov). Arsenii Bibikov (Kramskoi, his comrade). Leonid Iost (Kravisov’s lackey). Lidiia Tridenskaia (Masha, a laundress). Emma Bauer (A dancer).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE 1002ND RUSE (Tysiacha vioraio khitrost’)\u003c\/strong\u003eDirector\/Screenplay: Evgeni Bauer. Based on the play 1001 khitrost’ (The Thousand and First Ruse) by Vladimir Azov. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released May 29, 1915. Cast: Lina Bauer (The cunning wife). S. Rassatov (Her husband). Sergei Kvasnitskii (Her lover).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDAYDREAMS (Grezy).\u003c\/strong\u003e Alternative title: Deceived Dreams (Obmanutye mechty). Director: Evgeni Bauer. Screenplay: M. Bosov \u0026amp; Valentin Turkin. Based on the novel Bruges la Morte by Georges Rodenbach. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released October 10, 1915. Cast: Aleksandr Vyrubov (Sergei Nikolaevich Nedelin). N. Chernobaeva (His wife and Tina Viarskaia, an actress). Viktor Arens (Sol’skii, an artist).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40995791175857,"sku":"","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/EarlyRussianVolume16.jpg?v=1332300527"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volume-8-iakov-protazanov","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume 8: Iakov Protazanov","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePROTAZANOV, PROVOCATION AND PUSHKIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNothing in Protazanov’s career before his 1912 Tolstoy film would have hinted at its provocative originality. For this dramatized account of the great writer’s last days, despite its interpolation of documentary footage of the real locations and considerable efforts at authenticity, did not cast his widow in a flattering light. As a result, the Tolstoy family took successful legal action to have it banned. Undaunted, the producers decided to add an even more controversial “apotheosis” for the export market, which shows the heretic Tolstoy being received into heaven. By 1916, Protazanov had become one of the most commercially successful of Russia’s “kings of the screen,” particularly after \u003ci\u003eThe Keys to Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (1913), co-directed with Gardin. He was also a leader of what was ironically termed the “braking school” of directors, controlling his actors’ stylized rhythm with a conductor’s baton. Backed by Ermal’ev, and with Mozzhukhin as his regular star, he ranged across all the genres, including literary classics.For his adaptation of Pushkin’s novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Queen of Spades\u003c\/i\u003e, already adapted as an opera by Tchaikovsky and filmed five years earlier by Chardynin (see Vol. 5), Protazanov used all the expressive devices at his disposal. To Mozzhukhin’s intense central performance as the callous young officer, he added novel tracking shots, telling superimpositions, and studio-built exteriors; all intended to create the subjective world of German’s obsession with the secret of the cards. Years later, his collaborators recalled how he “demanded unity between the visual and artistic design work and the film’s overall conception” and how everything was bent towards “revealing the characters’ psychological essence by visual means.” In this “good story faithfully rendered” (Jay Leyda), Protazanov demonstrated the sophistication and strength that Russian cinema had achieved only eight years since its inception.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE DEPARTURE OF A GREAT OLD MAN \u003c\/b\u003e(Ukhod velikago startso). Alternate title: The Life of L. N. Tolstoy (Zhizn’ L N Tolstogo). Directors: Iakov Protazanov and Elizaveta Thiemann. Screenplay: Isaak Teneromo. Photography: George Meyer and Aleksandr Levitskii. Art Director: Ivan Kavaleridze. Production Company: Thiemann \u0026amp; Reinhardt. Released Overseas: 1912. Cast: Vladimir Shaternikov (Lev Tolstoy). O. Petrova (Sof’ia Andreevna). Mikhail Tamarov (Vladimir Cherikov). Elizaveta Thiemann (Aleksandra L’vovna). Documentary footage, including some shots of the town of Astapovo where he died, was used in the film. As a result of a petition from Sof’ia Tolstoya and Vladimir Chertkov, the film was banned from distribution and shown only abroad.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTHE QUEEN OF SPADES\u003c\/b\u003e (Pikovaia dama). Director\/Screenplay: Iakov Protazanov. Assistant Director: Georgii Azagarov. Photography: Evgenii Slavinskii. Art Directors: Vladimir Balliazek, S. Lilienberg, W. Przybytniewski. Screen version of the story by Aleksandr Pushkin. Production Company: Ermoltev. Released April 19, 1916. Cast: Ivan Mozzhukhin (German). Vera Orlava (Liza). Elizaveta Shebueva (The Countess as an old woman). T. Duvan (The Countess as a young woman). Polikarp Paviov (Her husband). Nikolai Panov (Count Saint-Germain).\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helevtica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40995792093361,"sku":"","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/EarlyRussianVolume17.jpg?v=1332300559"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volume-9-high-society","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume 9: High Society","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe discovery of early Russian cinema in recent years has focused on its highly individual characteristics and its hitherto neglected major artists. Relatively little attention has so far been paid to the public image of the industry as a whole — how it appeared to the filmgoer in the Moscow or Petrograd street. This program includes two short items as well as a major film by Bauer in an effort to redress the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntosha Ruined by a Corset\u003c\/i\u003e (1916) is one of the 24 Antosha shorts made by the Czech-born comedian Anton Feriner for the Lucifer company between 1915-18. As David Robinson has noted, these made him the most popular Russian comic, with titles in the series like Antosha Sherlock Holmes, Antosha Speculator, Antosha and the Black Hand — many of them topical, others satirical, and like the one seen here, risqué. Robinson traces the influence of French comedy, which would have helped form Russian taste for over a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKhanzhankov explained in a 1937 interview what he wanted to achieve with \u003ci\u003eA Life for a Life\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003e“I wanted to stagger the cinema world with a production of great artistic worth, which would immediately place our firm’s reputation at its rightful level... From a whole range of scenarios offered to him, Bauer, our chief director, selected a dramatization of the French novel by Georges Ohnet. All the studio’s technical resources were mobilized for the production, and the main roles were allocated among the best actors in our company... We had no more than one month to spend on the production and all departments set to work at a feverish pace. Bauer liked this sort of urgent ‘spontaneous’ work and even finished it a few days ahead of the deadline.”\u003c\/i\u003e [Silent Witnesses, ed. Tsivian et al, London\/Pordenone: 1989]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKhanzhankov’s hopes were realized. The Russian film press hailed \u003ci\u003eA Life for a Life\u003c\/i\u003e as an \u003ci\u003e“artistic treasure”\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e“a film that deserves a place alongside the best foreign productions,”\u003c\/i\u003e although Bauer’s taste for columns was also gently mocked, and it was hinted that perhaps he was trying too hard to imitate foreign models. But all hopes of building on this achievement were swept away in the following year; and in 1919 the most-admired star of Russian cinema, Vera Kholodnaia, died in Odessa. Her vast funeral marked the end of on era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANTOSHA RUINED BY A CORSET (Antoshu korset pogubil)\u003c\/strong\u003eDirector\/screenplay: Eduard Puchal’skii. Production Company: Lucifer Film Studio. Released January 26, 1916. Cast: Anton Fertner (Antosha).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA LIFE FOR A LIFE (Zhiznt zo zhizn’) Alternate titles: A Tear for Every Drop of Blood (Za kozhduiu slezu po kople krovi) or The Rival Sisters (Sestry sopernitsy).\u003c\/strong\u003eDirector\/Screenplay: Evgeni Bauer. Based on the novel Serge Panine by Georges Ohnet. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Company: Khanzhankov. Released May 10, 1916. Cast: Ol’ga Rakhmanova (Khromovo, a millionairess). Lidiia Koreneva (Musia, her daughter). Vera Kholodnaia (Nata, her adopted daughter). Vitol’d Polonskii (Prince Bartinskii). Ivan Perestiani (Zhurov, a merchant).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE FUNERAL OF VERA KHOLODNAIA. \u003c\/strong\u003eNewsreel coverage of the funeral which took place in Odessa in 1919.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helevtica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helevtica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. Please click on the “Format” button and select “DVD Institutional Rate.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helevtica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Milestone Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40952658264241,"sku":"","price":149.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0150\/7896\/products\/EarlyRussianVolume18.jpg?v=1332300591"},{"product_id":"early-russian-cinema-volume-10-the-end-of-an-era","title":"Early Russian Cinema, Volume Ten: The End of an Era","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraditional accounts of Soviet cinema have always stressed its difference from the Russian cinema of the Tsarist period, implying in the process that this earlier phase was actively hostile to social change. Not so, as we begin to realize from the tantalizing fragments that have survived. Indeed commercial producers were keen, as ever, to exploit topicality; and the eight months between 1917’s two revolutions of February and October saw a remarkable upsurge of “revolutionary” sentiment. \u003ci\u003eThe Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e, released in April, actually provides a link into the post-October period, since its writer and star, Ivan Perestiani, went on to direct one of the few genuinely popular early Soviet classics, \u003ci\u003eRed Imps\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1923.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1917, the journal Teatr noted sardonically: \u003ci\u003e“The film studios have come up with a number of pictures tailored to ‘the moment.’ They have paid their dues to society though they have taken their cut too. The Revolutionary and The Provocateur were produced hastily in two or three days and are distinguished neither by their plots nor by any originality in their production.” It went on to record, however, that The Revolutionary “is a vivid example of agitational cinema, and that it drew applause when shown.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor Luck\u003c\/i\u003e also marked a transition: a tragically early end to the career of Bauer, who died after an injury sustained while on location in the Crimea for this film; and an early appearance by the future pioneer of Soviet montage, Lev Kuleshov. Kuleshov was already working as an art director with Bauer, when he was asked also to play the part of Lee’s hopeless young suitor. The central scheme of the film — a daughter and mother both in love with the same man — and the extraordinary intensity brought to the final scenes, in which the daughter’s psychological blindness becomes physical when she is rejected, show Bauer at the height of his subtle powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBehind the Screen\u003c\/i\u003e is no more than a fragment of the major two-part film, \u003ci\u003eA Life Destroyed by Pitiless Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, released in November 1917, by which time most of the personnel involved in it would have already moved south on their way into emigration. Its film studio setting, therefore, has a coincidental poignancy, a farewell to the Russian cinema by two of its greatest stars, Mozzhukhin and Lisenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE REVOLUTIONARY (Revoliutsioner).\u003c\/strong\u003e Director: Evgeni Bauer. Screenplay: Ivan Perestiani. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released April 3, 1917. Cast: Ivan Perestiani (Granddad, on old revolutionary). Vladimir Strizhevskii (His son). Zoia Barantsevich (His daughter). Mikhail Stal’skii (A dying convict). Also Konstantin Zubov, K. Askochenskii, Vasilii Il’in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFOR LUCK (Zo schost em \/ K schost’iu).\u003c\/strong\u003e Director: Evgeni Bauer. Screenplay: N. Dennitsyna. Photography: Boris Zavelev. Art Director: Lev Kuleshov. Production Company: Khanzhonkov. Released March 9, 1917. Cast: Nikolai Radin (Dmitrii Gzkotskii, a lawyer). Lidiia Koreneva (Zoia Vrenskaia, a rich widow). Taisiia Borman (Lee, her daughter). Lev Kuleshov (Enrico, an artist). N. Dennitsyna (Lee’s governess). Emmochka Bauer (A girl). Aleksandr Kheruvimov (The doctor).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBEHIND THE SCREEN (fragment) (Kulisy ekrana). Alternate title: A LIFE DESTROYED BY PITILESS FATE (Razbita zhizn’ bezzhalostnoi sud’boi).\u003c\/strong\u003e Director\/Screenplay: Georgii Azagarov (?) \u0026amp; Aleksandr Volkov (?). Photography: Nikolai Toporkov. Production Company: Ermol’ev. Released November 28, 1917. Drama in 2 parts. [Only one reel preserved.] Cast: Ivan Mozzhukhin (Himself). Natalia Lisenko (Herself). Nikolai Panov (Studio director). Themselves: Lirskii, Iona Talanov, and Andrei Brei.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helevtica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helevtica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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There is nothing else like it!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In fact, Antinov himself is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin. A world-renowned artist, author, and performer, Antin has exhibited her work at major museums around the world. In her art. Antin explores history through the eyes of various personas, including Eleanor Nightingale (a nurse in the Crimean War) and Eleanora Antinova, the famous black ballerina in Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe who wanted to star in Swan Lake but was only allowed \"ethnic\" roles like Pocahontas. This great and fictional dancer also appeared in Antin's earlier work \u003cem\u003eFrom the Archives of Modern Art\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Last Night of Rasputin\u003c\/em\u003e, also distributed by Milestone. The film has an amazing cast and crew from the world of art, literature, and theatre including Pier Marton, Christine Berry, Anna Ruth Henriques, Nicolai Lennox, Sabato Fiorello, Marcia Goodman, \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eAllan Kaprow, Jerome Rothenberg\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eDavid Antin, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003eDon Sommese.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film is Antin’s “love letter” to her mother, a former actress in the Yiddish theater of Poland, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease at the time this film was created. Like the character Zevi in the film, Antin's mother yearned for the stages of Warsaw, but unlike him, she never made it to the big city. The film is also a love letter to the heyday of silent cinema. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD\u003c\/b\u003e is a moving, comic melodrama set in a typical \u003cem\u003eshtetl\u003c\/em\u003e (village) in Poland. The Jews’ struggle against poverty and racial hatred is complicated by their own division into hostile political factions of the religious orthodoxy, assimilationists, socialists, Zionists, anarchists and survivors. While the Jews of the shtetl pursue their loves, politics, religion, business and dreams for the future, the Angel of Death is ever near...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I make seemingly old films in order to enter the lost world of the past from the inside, not to stand outside of it and see it as history. The technology of a film determines a large part of what the audience sees. A Hollywood costume drama holds the subject of the film at the conventional distance of representation. I want my audience to experience this world as if from inside — but at the same time — with a sense of the distance they have traveled to get there.” \u003c\/em\u003e— Eleanor Antin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" color=\"#ff0000\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eAlso available in 4K DCP and 16mm prints for theatrical and nontheatrical screenings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" color=\"#ff0000\" data-mce-style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eContact Milestone for price and availability!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" color=\"#0000ff\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eThis DVD is also available for Institutional Purchase, which includes public performance rights and a 3-year streaming license. 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