JOYLESS STREET
Bruce Calvert
STREET, the author describes the differences between the American and German
versions of the film. (I have not seen it yet.) She says that "these changes
were the result of the American re-release in 1935, after Greta Garbo had
achieved stardom in the United States. 'Assuming that audiences would be drawn
to JOYLESS STREET only to see what Garbo looked like a decade earlier,' Gomery
explains, 'distributors excised Asta Nielsen's role entirely -- nearly 40
percent of the original film. It is this mutilated 1935 version that is still
being rented as 'Pabst's JOYLESS STREET' by a major distributor of films to
college cinema classes and television stations."
This film is not available on DVD, but Kino has it on VHS in a "restored"
version. Does this version include the Asta Nielsen story-line also?
Bruce Calvert
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> In the article on JOYLESS
>STREET, the author describes the differences between the American and German
>versions of the film.
>This film is not available on DVD, but Kino has it on VHS in a "restored"
>version.
I am under the impression that the VHS is sole sourced from the former Rohauer
owned print, which was neither American, nor German, but is French with Engligh
intertitles. I have not seen it.
Earl.
Mile Films
Rohauer as well as from a few archives back in the 1980s. I believe that
Connaissance du Cinema in Paris did this version.
Chris Horak and the Munich Filmmuseum's version is considerably longer, and
some of these new scenes (or longer versions of previously existing scenes)
contain some of the most intense and fierce filmmaking I have ever seen. The
scene with the butcher is truely harrowing.
It's a great restoration. That said, Pabst also has a tendency (IMHO and it's
not shared by many so take this with a grain of salt) to wander a bit and I
think most of his films could use some tighter editing -- even Pandora's Box.
And since they showed this new version at 17 frames per second or so, it
emphasized this.
Dennis Doros
Milestone Film & Video
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bob
> Chris Horak and the Munich Filmmuseum's version is considerably longer, and
> some of these new scenes (or longer versions of previously existing scenes)
> contain some of the most intense and fierce filmmaking I have ever seen. The
> scene with the butcher is truely harrowing.
seen stills or caps on the net somewhere that are from scenes missing
from the old Kino version, and have often hoped for a more complete
restoration.
Bob
dmkb
mine when it was aired a couple of years back
on ARTE TV in Europe and the same version
was screened at UCLA in 2000, I believe.
This should be a strong candidate for a DVD
release either here or in Europe.
Michael Baskett
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