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Aug 28, 2012 · Lonesome: Great City, Great Solitude. By Phillip Lopate. Essays —. Aug 28, 2012. P aul Fejos’s Lonesome is one of those no-longer-forgotten treasures that cinephiles in the know cherish. A frequent retrospective highlight at film festivals, lovingly restored, it has a fresh, dashing charm and brio that repay numerous visits.
Jul 16, 2024 · “In the whirlpool of modern life — The most difficult thing is to live alone”, declares an intertitle during the opening scene of Lonesome (1928), directed by Paul Fejos. And few understand urban loneliness better than the working-class New Yorker protagonists, Mary (Barbara Kent) and Jim (Glenn Tryton).
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A buried treasure from Hollywood’s golden age, Lonesome is the creation of a little-known but audacious and one-of-a-kind filmmaker, Paul Fejos (also an explorer, anthropologist, and doctor!). While under contract at Universal, Fejos pulled out all the stops for this lovely, largely silent New York City symphony set in antic Coney Island during the...
Criterion presents the sound version of Paul Fejos’ Lonesomein its original aspect ratio of about 1.19:1 on this dual-layer disc with a new 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer. Considering the rough history this film has had it’s not a surprise it doesn’t look perfect but I think many will be pleased, even surprised, at how well this presentation c...
The film’s audio, presented here in lossless linear PCM mono, definitely shows its age. It cracks and pops, has a fair amount of noise in the background, and the music is uneven and at times grating. Oddly the dialogue sequences actually sound okay, which I don’t entirely understand since, as I was led to believe, the rest of the soundtrack was add...
A lot of Paul Fejos’ work has been lost so it seems Criterion has put together what they can and offer a sort of retrospective on the director. The first supplements is an audio commentary by film historian Richard Koszarski, which is a fairly entertaining and informative discussion about the director, the film, Universal, and the studio system at ...
The condition of the source print for Lonesomeholds the look back somewhat, and the audio can be a bit of a mess, but Criterion has still done a fabulous job on the transfer, providing a very film-like image that still benefits from high-def. And with the supplements that offer an excellent primer on the director (even including two more of his fil...
In this article I explore the origins of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. I focus on the complex relationship between Paul Fejos, the foundation’s first scientific director, and Axel Wenner-Gren, its founding president and benefactor.
Aug 31, 2012 · The Travels of Paul Fejos. By Graham Petrie. Essays —. Aug 31, 2012. Share. P aul Fejos’s 1928 film Lonesome is now rightly regarded as one of the peaks of American, and indeed international, late silent cinema, comparable to such masterpieces as F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927) and King Vidor’s The Crowd (1928), yet it is only relatively ...
Aug 2, 2012 · One of the upcoming releases of ours that we’re most excited about is Paul Fejos’s Lonesome. It’s early-Hollywood buried treasure, produced by Universal at a time when studios were still cranking out silent films as well as the talkies that the public was beginning to clamor for.
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Aug 30, 2012 · You (probably) don’t know Paul Fejos, but Criterion will repair that oversight—and how!—with this superb Blu-ray release of the director’s nearly forgotten gem, two additional, standalone features, and a windfall of illuminating supplements.
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