Netflix and Co almost exclusively on New. The policy seeks, however, to the preservation of the film heritage. We represent the 10 new DVD releases from different countries in film history for the home.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
The King of Comedy (1982)
We begin our journey in the cinema history with a movie from 1982. “King of Comedy” was a first trip to US-star Director Martin Scorsese in Comedy specialist. At the office, the Film fell through, but the critics raved about, even in the face of the occupation of the main roles, with Jerry Lewis and Robert DeNiro. “King of Comedy” is now available for the first time on Blu-ray, with excellent sound and image.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Witness for the prosecution (1957)
Also the classics of Billy Wilder, you can watch it again in a great image/sound quality. “Witness for the prosecution” tells a convoluted judicial history, with Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power. The Film was showered with praise, the biggest came from Agatha Christie: “Everything I’ve seen on film adaptations of my works, I found extremely disgusting, to ‘witness for the prosecution’.”
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
23 steps to the abyss (1956)
This exciting Thriller is not worth a goodbye, even if he is quite as well-known as “witness for the prosecution”. Director Henry Hathaway, otherwise, rather Western specialist, turned it, two years after Alfred Hitchcock’s “window to the yard”. With this masterpiece: A man connects him with a disability on the trail of a crime, to the aid of a loyal Butler and a blonde Beautiful.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Avenger of the disinherited (1956)
The great age of the Western genre in the 1950s and this decade was the most productive of the American Director Nicholas Ray. One of Ray’s biggest Fans of Wim Wenders, who filmed with Ray shortly before his death, a movie. Ray’s Western “the avenger of the disinherited” tells once more the mythical story of Jesse James….
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Damn Silence (1955)
As Billy Wilder also directed by Otto Preminger comes from Austria-Hungary and made into a Hollywood career. Preminger staged a based on true events, Episode of American military history. Gary Cooper plays an upright and stubborn officer who criticized the poor state of the U.S. air force. A Film about “true” Patriotism, especially in the Trump era.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Gold helmet (1951)
And now for the French cinema. A discovery of the films of Jacques Becker (1906-1960), the provider of “Arthaus” has published four timeless masterpieces in one Edition. The films are digitally brought up to date. “Gold helmet” with Simone Signoret is one of Becker’s cinematic highlights, a poetic crime story in the Paris of the Belle Époque.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
The crime of Mr. Lange (1935)
Jacques Becker started as a Director’s assistant to the great Jean Renoir. Also by this master of cinema history will always dug movies, digitally restored and on DVD and Blu-Ray. Just released Renoir’s murder story from the publisher of Milieu is “The crime of Mr Lange”. A Film about class struggles with a demonic main character à la Harvey Weinstein.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
It happened tomorrow (1944)
From Renoir’s compatriot René Clair, this tragicomedy, the film’s Director in 1944, realized in Hollywood, after he had to leave Nazi-occupied France comes. Also, “It happened tomorrow” plays in the newspaper and publishing environment, this is also about true and fictional messages. So a historical movie hits such as “It happened tomorrow” bridges to the Fake-News era.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Bicycle thieves (1948)
One of the great masterpieces of post-war history, the history is missing today in any Best-of list of cinema, Vittorio de Sicas “the Bicycle thief”. The classics of the neorealist Films, the one that is as authentic as melodramatic look at the sadness of the time after the 2. World war threw, is now published with extensive documentation materials also on Blu-ray.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
‘S daily bread (1929)
Film history as social history, cinema as an act of resistance: In a Film such as “‘s daily bread” by Phil Jutzi, the today aptly study. Jutzi turned in 1929, in the lower Silesian forest, the castle, the centre of the Eastern German coal production. The Nazis banned the movie in the ’70s, and a Fragment in the GDR television was broadcast. Now there’s the complete Film on DVD.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
The King of Comedy (1982)
We begin our journey in the cinema history with a movie from 1982. “King of Comedy” was a first trip to US-star Director Martin Scorsese in Comedy specialist. At the office, the Film fell through, but the critics raved about, even in the face of the occupation of the main roles, with Jerry Lewis and Robert DeNiro. “King of Comedy” is now available for the first time on Blu-ray, with excellent sound and image.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Witness for the prosecution (1957)
Also the classics of Billy Wilder, you can watch it again in a great image/sound quality. “Witness for the prosecution” tells a convoluted judicial history, with Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power. The Film was showered with praise, the biggest came from Agatha Christie: “Everything I’ve seen on film adaptations of my works, I found extremely disgusting, to ‘witness for the prosecution’.”
-
Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
23 steps to the abyss (1956)
This exciting Thriller is not worth a goodbye, even if he is quite as well-known as “witness for the prosecution”. Director Henry Hathaway, otherwise, rather Western specialist, turned it, two years after Alfred Hitchcock’s “window to the yard”. With this masterpiece: A man connects him with a disability on the trail of a crime, to the aid of a loyal Butler and a blonde Beautiful.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Avenger of the disinherited (1956)
The great age of the Western genre in the 1950s and this decade was the most productive of the American Director Nicholas Ray. One of Ray’s biggest Fans of Wim Wenders, who filmed with Ray shortly before his death, a movie. Ray’s Western “the avenger of the disinherited” tells once more the mythical story of Jesse James….
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Damn Silence (1955)
As Billy Wilder also directed by Otto Preminger comes from Austria-Hungary and made into a Hollywood career. Preminger staged a based on true events, Episode of American military history. Gary Cooper plays an upright and stubborn officer who criticized the poor state of the U.S. air force. A Film about “true” Patriotism, especially in the Trump era.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Gold helmet (1951)
And now for the French cinema. A discovery of the films of Jacques Becker (1906-1960), the provider of “Arthaus” has published four timeless masterpieces in one Edition. The films are digitally brought up to date. “Gold helmet” with Simone Signoret is one of Becker’s cinematic highlights, a poetic crime story in the Paris of the Belle Époque.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
The crime of Mr. Lange (1935)
Jacques Becker started as a Director’s assistant to the great Jean Renoir. Also by this master of cinema history will always dug movies, digitally restored and on DVD and Blu-Ray. Just released Renoir’s murder story from the publisher of Milieu is “The crime of Mr Lange”. A Film about class struggles with a demonic main character à la Harvey Weinstein.
-
Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
It happened tomorrow (1944)
From Renoir’s compatriot René Clair, this tragicomedy, the film’s Director in 1944, realized in Hollywood, after he had to leave Nazi-occupied France comes. Also, “It happened tomorrow” plays in the newspaper and publishing environment, this is also about true and fictional messages. So a historical movie hits such as “It happened tomorrow” bridges to the Fake-News era.
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Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
Bicycle thieves (1948)
One of the great masterpieces of post-war history, the history is missing today in any Best-of list of cinema, Vittorio de Sicas “the Bicycle thief”. The classics of the neorealist Films, the one that is as authentic as melodramatic look at the sadness of the time after the 2. World war threw, is now published with extensive documentation materials also on Blu-ray.
-
Nothing to Laugh at history for the film?
‘S daily bread (1929)
Film history as social history, cinema as an act of resistance: In a Film such as “‘s daily bread” by Phil Jutzi, the today aptly study. Jutzi turned in 1929, in the lower Silesian forest, the castle, the centre of the Eastern German coal production. The Nazis banned the movie in the ’70s, and a Fragment in the GDR television was broadcast. Now there’s the complete Film on DVD.
On 1. January 2019 a of the state Minister for Culture Monika Grütters, and experts of various Stripes agreed-million-dollar program to safeguard the film heritage. Every year tens of millions of euros from 2019 in the digitization of German film – and the first ten years. 100 million euros is a nice sum, though many experts say that the still much too little for the Herculean task of film heritage.
The other arts have it easier
What is it about? In essence, it is ultimately a question of how a whole culture division can be prepared for the future. The comparison with other arts, is helpful here.
In order to secure the old (or newer) paintings, art restorers a lot of money in the Hand. They ensure that a painting by Albrecht Dürer or Caspar David Friedrich can be used in many years, yet so shown as to the time of its formation. These paintings hang in the Museum.
State Minister For Culture Monika Grütters
Music is preserved by old scores will be collected and maintained – and then to the performance. In the classical country of Germany, Beethoven symphonies or Bach are to be heard concerts every day somewhere in the cultural metropolises, but also in the province. The literature has in this respect not so hard. Books can be printed for relatively little money. The people must make the effort to read. The work of art is created anyway in the head.
What is the Medium of Film in a different way? Two things make the difference: The preservation of a film as well as the opportunity to consider this also. First of all, it is expensive to receive films at all. Analog film reels disintegrate at some point and need to be replaced. This is done in the last few years, with the help of digital techniques. “It is precisely because of the preservation of our film heritage is so time-critical, we can’t risk that yet more years pass,” said state Minister for Culture Monika Grütters.
A lot of effort and high costs
However, the new techniques – in contrast to previous expectations – not a panacea. Digital carrier are exposed to the ravages of time. So you need to always be transferred. In addition, it is very expensive to reconstruct an old movie and restore.
View into a film archive of analog film roles still play an important role
The second Problem is in the playback practice. Previously, you could look at the works of film history in cinema, in television. Later, the VHS tape came today, the old films to appear on DVD or Blu-ray.
This construct is faltering. The cinemas show the latest films from a few local cinemas and dedicated Film-initiatives apart that have written cinema history on the flags. It used to be different. Also, the subsidy to the local cinema scene is, in comparison to the funding of Opera and the theatre, is much lower.
Film history disappears from the linear television
The broadcasting practice of the German television has also changed radically. Even public institutions don’t care about to film history – from niche channels such as Arte and 3 SAT apart.
The Berlin film festival “movie:ReStored” since 2016, the German film heritage
And the currently so popular streaming provider? Netflix, Amazon and Co pumps your money to 99 percent in the production of new film history is (limited) to be found in this area only in some small (mostly European) suppliers. You want to watch a Film by Fritz Lang and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is not so easy.
Classics on DVD and Blu-ray
The offer on the DVD or the Blu-ray Format remains all the same. That is quite present. However, on the one hand, these media are for the reasons stated, not for eternity. On the other hand, there are still some large gaps, especially if one moves a little away from harms as a film-historical paths – for example, if you dealt with the cinema outside of Hollywood and Europe. Nevertheless, only the DVD for the film history often.
Cinematic delights such as the works of Jacques Becker, are today often seen only on DVD and Blu-ray: “When it is night in Paris” (1954)
Monika Grütters emphasized on the first movie, heritage-Festival in Berlin two years ago, that “movies were the most visible memory of our Nation”: “dramas, comedies or thrillers (sense) expression of a time, a life, a certain order of society,” said the Minister. Not least because working in the home Grütters on a long-term digitization strategy.
Movies discover, not only in the cinema
It is also for this reason, the Deutsche Welle for many years, month-to-month, movies of the cinema history, the shows on DVD and Blu-ray. In doing so, we have, as a channel aimed at an audience especially outside of Germany, not only German film history in mind. There are numerous examples of works by famous Directors, who were not long to see on the big screen – or only in outdated versions on DVD templates.
Old movies and historical dramas: the topic of famine documented in “‘s daily bread”
In December, a couple thought weeks before Christmas as a gift tip, we provide you with our photo gallery of ten new releases in front of watchable movies that are released recently on DVD or Blu-ray. Including well-known and forgotten films, those that have found their place in movie history already, and others, the film history in addition to way to describe. Movies from Hollywood and France are in our selection, from Italy and Germany, by the likes of Martin Scorsese or Jean Renoir, but also little-known works, such as Phil Jutzis “Hunger in the forest castle” from the time of the Weimar Republic.
Martin Scorsese’s “King of Comedy”, and Billy Wilder’s “witness for the prosecution” are published by the provider “film confect Home Entertainment”. “23 steps to the abyss” is available in “Pidax”, “It happened Tomorrow” by René Clair and Vittorio de Sicas published masterpiece “Bicycle thieves”. “Avenger of the disinherited” came out of “cooking Films”, “condemned to Silence” for “Endless Classics”. Jean Renoir’s “The crime of Mr Lange,” as well as “gold helmet” are published by the provider of “Studio canal”, the latter in a Jacques – Becker-Edition with three other films of the French Director. “‘S daily bread” is included in “Absolut Medien”.