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06-26-2004, 09:02 PM
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Napoleon (1927)
has anyone heard of plans to release Abel Gance's 1927 silent classic on DVD?
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06-27-2004, 03:48 AM
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Re: Napoleon (1927)
On 26 Jun 2004, Vlvetmorning98 wrote: > has anyone heard of plans to release Abel Gance's 1927 silent classic on DVD? It's been released in Australia... The problem is, Kevin Brownlow's been improving on his first released cut ever since it was released...but Coppola (who re-released it to theatres) doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with a newer cut (that doesn't have his dad's music all over it). swac |
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06-27-2004, 06:55 AM
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Re: Napoleon (1927)
>.but Coppola (who re-released it to theatres)
>doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with a newer cut (that doesn't >have his dad's music all over it). > >swac > I hope they reach a compromise, with the ability to select either the British Film Institute's score or Carmine Coppola's... |
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06-27-2004, 12:00 PM
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Re: Napoleon (1927)
On 27 Jun 2004, Vlvetmorning98 wrote: > >.but Coppola (who re-released it to theatres) > >doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with a newer cut (that doesn't > >have his dad's music all over it). > > > I hope they reach a compromise, with the ability to select either the British > Film Institute's score or Carmine Coppola's... Alternate audio wouldn't work, because Brownlow's changes since the Coppola release affect scenes throughout the film. It would have to be two different versions (hopefully on two different discs). swac |
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06-28-2004, 09:16 AM
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Re: Napoleon (1927)
---------- In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1040626234654.16674E->, Stephen Cooke <> wrote: > > On 26 Jun 2004, Vlvetmorning98 wrote: > >> has anyone heard of plans to release Abel Gance's 1927 silent classic on DVD? > > It's been released in Australia... > > The problem is, Kevin Brownlow's been improving on his first released cut > ever since it was released...but Coppola (who re-released it to theatres) > doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with a newer cut (that doesn't > have his dad's music all over it). > No loss there. Carmine Coppola's score was dreadful (and I saw the Brownlow restoration on its initial release, in a 2500-seat theatre with a live symphony orchestra playing Carmine C's syrupy and bathetic music); much inferior to the Carl Davis score composed for the UK release. Yet another example of Francis Coppola's pathological nepotism. |
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