Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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The
Holy Mountain
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 Kino Classics
2018 Blu-ray Disc edition
The Holy Mountain (1926), color-tinted black & white, 105 minutes, not rated.
Kino Lorber,
unknown catalog number, UPC 7-38329-23017-3.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region A Blu-ray Disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in pillarboxed 16:9 (1920 x 1080 pixels) progressive scan AVC (MPEG-4) format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Mbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; standard BD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 24 April 2018.
Country of origin: USA
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This Blu-ray Disc edition has been mastered from a 2K scan of the reconstruction print produced by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung. With the longer running time in this edition, it is likely that additional footage has been restored to the 35mm source material.
The presentation is likely to be accompanied by a jazzy small orchestra music score by Aljoscha Zimmermann.
Supplemental material includes audio commentary by film historian Travis Crawford; and interview footage of Leni Riefenstahl and costar Louis Trenker (excerpted from the documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl).
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 Kino on Video
2003 DVD edition
The Holy Mountain (1926), color-tinted black & white, 105 minutes, not rated.
Kino International, K307, UPC 7-38329-03072-8.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, 16 chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $29.95.
Release date: 12 August 2003.
Country of origin: USA
Ratings (1-10): video: 7 / audio: 9 / additional content: 3 / overall: 6.
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This NTSC DVD edition has been mastered from the best available 35mm film elements, the 2001 reconstruction print licensed by Transit Film and the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung, with very-good results. The subsequent full-frame, natural-speed video transfer for this edition looks pretty good, even on high-definition equipment, rendering a reasonably film-like picture when the standard NTSC signal is upscaled to 1080p HD.
The presentation is accompanied by a jazzy small orchestra music score by Aljoscha Zimmermann.
Half supplemental material and half advertisement for their DVD edition of The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), the disc adds filmed interviews with Riefenstahl and Louis Trenker on the making of The Holy Mountain exerpted from the documentary.
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 Eureka Entertainment
2004 DVD edition
The Holy Mountain (1926), black & white, 106 minutes, BBFC Classification U,
with The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), color and black & white, 180 minutes, not rated.
Eureka Entertainment,
EKA40072 (MoC 2), unknown UPC number.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 576 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 5.1 surround sound and Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 stereo sound, German language intertitles, English language subtitles, chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; £22.99.
Release date: 21 June 2004.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL DVD edition from Eureka’s Masters of Cinema series has been mastered from the 2001 35mm restoration print, and features new musical accompaniment in 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo by Aljoscha Zimmerman.
The disc also features the documentary The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) by Ray Müller.
North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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Other silent era LENI RIEFENSTAHL films available on home video.
Other GERMAN FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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