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Third IMDb review on the Matterhorn films:
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Posting my IMDb reviews here, although there's a lot of overlap with the material I wrote for my own benefit earlier:
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I spent the day up to my ears in Luis Trenker...
It all started when I wanted to check the spelling of the Swiss guide's name in "Der Kampf ums Matterhorn", which I remembered from the intertitles as being 'Cros' but which the Internet credits and film handout for this picture all give as 'Cross' (probably because the IMDb does and everywhere else used that as a reference.)
So I saw that YouTube apparently had an upload of the film, and I went to look at it in order to find the credit screen at the start and update the IMDb if necessary.
But the clip turned out to start off with Luis Trenker doing an introduction to the film, talking about how he came to make it, etc. My German isn't exactly wonderful, but since I'd read quite a lot of the information in the programme notes for the film screening I could make out what he was talking about, even if not everything he was saying.( Read more... )
It all started when I wanted to check the spelling of the Swiss guide's name in "Der Kampf ums Matterhorn", which I remembered from the intertitles as being 'Cros' but which the Internet credits and film handout for this picture all give as 'Cross' (probably because the IMDb does and everywhere else used that as a reference.)
So I saw that YouTube apparently had an upload of the film, and I went to look at it in order to find the credit screen at the start and update the IMDb if necessary.
But the clip turned out to start off with Luis Trenker doing an introduction to the film, talking about how he came to make it, etc. My German isn't exactly wonderful, but since I'd read quite a lot of the information in the programme notes for the film screening I could make out what he was talking about, even if not everything he was saying.( Read more... )
"Kampf ums Matterhorn" (1928)
9 May 2019 02:05 amI took a guest to see the silent film Kampf ums Matterhorn ("The Struggle for the Matterhorn") on Bank Holiday Monday, since there was nothing showing at the local cinema save for children's films presumably scheduled to keep the little darlings occupied while they were out of school...
I'm not sure she'd seen a silent film before, and if she had it would have been the Laurel & Hardy type. Her reaction: "Gosh, they could really act with their faces, couldn't they?"
My (unspoken) reaction: 'Clearly someone who hasn't seen Sunset Boulevard :-p'
( We had faces! )
The film was showing as part of the National Film Theatre's 'Weimar Season', but it's really nothing at all like the 'Cabaret'/'Lulu'/'Dr Caligari' stereotype of weird, transgressive art from the decadent Weimar Republic. It's a straightforward morally unambiguous story, a member of a genre that has no English equivalent: a Bergfilm (mountaineering melodrama).( Read more... )
I'm not sure she'd seen a silent film before, and if she had it would have been the Laurel & Hardy type. Her reaction: "Gosh, they could really act with their faces, couldn't they?"
My (unspoken) reaction: 'Clearly someone who hasn't seen Sunset Boulevard :-p'
( We had faces! )
The film was showing as part of the National Film Theatre's 'Weimar Season', but it's really nothing at all like the 'Cabaret'/'Lulu'/'Dr Caligari' stereotype of weird, transgressive art from the decadent Weimar Republic. It's a straightforward morally unambiguous story, a member of a genre that has no English equivalent: a Bergfilm (mountaineering melodrama).( Read more... )
