Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927)'s comments

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george4mon

painfully long, i thought it was never going to end.

11 years 7 months ago

JoeMorrissy

Where can i buy this?, cant find it fucking anywhere!

12 years 9 months ago

locovoco

Surprisingly a 4 hour silent movie with virtually no plot, no love interests, and no mystery did not come up SHORT of my expectations.....oh god, couldn't resist.....

8 years 4 months ago

I hope to be excused, but having seen the Brownlow restauration at an exhausting 313 minutes (and not in the best picture quality at all), I couldn't resist to imagine that a cut of roughly 3 1/2 hours wouldn't come off as necessarily butchered to me, but rather appropriate. To think Gance had 5 or 6 of these films in such proportions in mind seems really quite overblown. (Which doesn't mean I don't acknowledge some of the spectacular scenes and overall qualities of the movie; it's just too long!)

Now I don't know how bad the soundtrack and editing of the Coppola cut really is; but I'd sure prefer a BluRay transfer of this over the circulating Brownlow rip, which doesn't do the epic scale of this project any justice. And I'm not even talking about the triptych here ..

9 years 4 months ago

Knaldskalle

Napoleon will be screened in Amsterdam, June 15, 2014.

More info and tickets (in English).

One screening only.

10 years 1 month ago

idjutt

@knaldskalle:

also went to royal albert hall thanks to your mention. enjoyed it immensely. cheers!

10 years 5 months ago

JF-UK

@mathiasa: Just returned home from the Royal Festival Hall - hope you enjoyed the day as much as I did! :^D

10 years 5 months ago

mathiasa

@Knaldskalle: thanks to your comment I'll be there, I'm looking forward to it, means a lot to me.

10 years 6 months ago

Knaldskalle

This will be screened in London, November 30th, 2013.

More info and tickets.

Obviously, you should go if at all possible, it's the experience of a lifetime!

11 years 1 month ago

ricer11

Coppola version here, in 9 parts:

http://so.tudou.com/nisearch/abel%20gance%20napoleon/

12 years 5 months ago

Llanirev

Shortest version is 222 minutes.
Longest 330 (5.5 hours!)
ouch.

13 years 1 month ago

Dieguito

Good but too long..

12 years 3 months ago

Torgo

I've rarely seen a heavier assault of 1-bombing on IMDb:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018192/ratings

Looks like it had a rating of 8.7 (!) not too long ago. Such a thing hitting the Top 250 would certainly upset some fake-voting imbeciles.

Have to see it yet - I'm not a fan of Napoléon as a historical figure and don't know when to try a 5-hour-silent-film in one sitting. :|

12 years 3 months ago

Knaldskalle

Just bought tickets for it. I'm all giddy with excitement!

12 years 9 months ago

worstmovies

This is being screened in the US for the first time in decades in the newest restored version. Carl Davis conducting his musical score live, triptych ending properly projected. No further US dates planned.

Tickets available now. Hell of an opportunity.
http://www.silentfilm.org/event-special.php

12 years 9 months ago