Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Ernst Lubitsch’s The Loves of Pharoah, long thought lost beyond presentation, has been painstakingly reconstituted, with the 600 missing meters of film (out of 2976m, roughly 20% of the product) being replaced by captions and images, a sure testament to the power of the modern restorative process even if Lubitsch’s product itself is not wholly engaging. A daft epic of sorts, war breaks out between Egypt and Ethiopia, with a Greek slave girl, Theonis, becoming caught in the middle, the apparent prize of a love triangle which underscores the entire picture.
It’s an experience to come to with less expectation about the narrative and more the process which has brought the film to our screens; the descriptive captions detailing missing shots doesn’t prove as intrusive as one might expect, and there is only one lengthy portion throughout the film that has been entirely built...
Ernst Lubitsch’s The Loves of Pharoah, long thought lost beyond presentation, has been painstakingly reconstituted, with the 600 missing meters of film (out of 2976m, roughly 20% of the product) being replaced by captions and images, a sure testament to the power of the modern restorative process even if Lubitsch’s product itself is not wholly engaging. A daft epic of sorts, war breaks out between Egypt and Ethiopia, with a Greek slave girl, Theonis, becoming caught in the middle, the apparent prize of a love triangle which underscores the entire picture.
It’s an experience to come to with less expectation about the narrative and more the process which has brought the film to our screens; the descriptive captions detailing missing shots doesn’t prove as intrusive as one might expect, and there is only one lengthy portion throughout the film that has been entirely built...
- 10/21/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
"Idiom is an online magazine of artistic and cultural practice." And it now has a new film and electronic art editor. Tom McCormack introduces the new section, promising long-form work focusing on the "avant-garde and the art-house and the gallery" — and YouTube. What's more: "We'd like to get polemical. We want to get argumentative." Idiom Film launches with Michael Joshua Rowin on the collection of essays Optics Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs, Colin Beckett on work by John Smith on DVD, Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon on Rossellini's Rome, Open City and Courtney Fiske on Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
How did I miss this breezy read in the New York Times last week? Elaine May: "The producers of Relatively Speaking (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom it...
How did I miss this breezy read in the New York Times last week? Elaine May: "The producers of Relatively Speaking (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom it...
- 10/18/2011
- MUBI
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