Lightning Round
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scifirenegadeLots of pictures ahead and cuts ahead.
Compu Movie was found! Two months ago. The holy grail of Osamu Sato's art and music!
A while ago, me and a friend were talking and he showed me Cinemateca's new database Felix, and I've been searching some of Veidt's films there, for exact premiere dates. It's still very new and missing a lot of info, so heads up.
First, the miracle of multiplication.
Next:
Anders als die Andern never premiered in Portugal. It never could. So why are there translations of the films intertitles?
After meditating for weeks, I searched about arquivo.pt, basically Portuguese Wayback Machine, and found a date. 19th of September, 2000. The fourth Festival de Cinema Gay e Lésbico de Lisboa (now Queer Lisboa and Queer Porto). They have all their programmes here, which is great; in my experience, Portuguese internet arquives aren't so throrough.
The problem?
English subtitles (nice yeehaw font, and we're mixing German and Dutch, chappies).
At this point? No idea.
And speaking of Anders als die Andern, the UCLA (?) recon is available for everyone to see.
Got no answer about *waves hands* this whole thing. Is this supposed to be Satanas (1920)? 'Cause it sure looks like it, with the costume and that title.
Was it ever released in the US? I tried searching and this was all I got.
To add onto the ever-growing collection of Veidt phoning Universal to get dialogue recorded for The Last Performance. All those Polish newspaper being uploaded to the Internet Archive are a treat.
The first one I have never seen, the last one I have, but the scan is a bit better (i.e. it doesn't look like a Santiago Pilgrim came up to it and scrapped it).
Speaking of The Last Performance...
Now, where can we find the OG pics...
Art dump time :D
Otto and Hansie ;w;
Because there's quite a few (American) posters with lightning imagery for The Last Performance.
Fanposter for The Student of Prague, more based on energies than anything else.
Karl Dark Journey for your consideration :D
Come on, you can't make Conrad Veidt play a character that buys all the dresses from his love interest and not make him wear at least one.
Did I spend an hour looking at 1930s dresses? Yes. Does the film take place in WWI? Also yes, but they still dress 1930s, and I like to follow canon :P
(It occurred to me it was probably intentional because a) lack of money and b) Madeleine owns a clothes shop, might as well have all the latest fashions to appeal to the audience)
Compu Movie was found! Two months ago. The holy grail of Osamu Sato's art and music!
A while ago, me and a friend were talking and he showed me Cinemateca's new database Felix, and I've been searching some of Veidt's films there, for exact premiere dates. It's still very new and missing a lot of info, so heads up.
First, the miracle of multiplication.
Next:
Anders als die Andern never premiered in Portugal. It never could. So why are there translations of the films intertitles?
After meditating for weeks, I searched about arquivo.pt, basically Portuguese Wayback Machine, and found a date. 19th of September, 2000. The fourth Festival de Cinema Gay e Lésbico de Lisboa (now Queer Lisboa and Queer Porto). They have all their programmes here, which is great; in my experience, Portuguese internet arquives aren't so throrough.
The problem?
English subtitles (nice yeehaw font, and we're mixing German and Dutch, chappies).
At this point? No idea.
And speaking of Anders als die Andern, the UCLA (?) recon is available for everyone to see.
Got no answer about *waves hands* this whole thing. Is this supposed to be Satanas (1920)? 'Cause it sure looks like it, with the costume and that title.
Was it ever released in the US? I tried searching and this was all I got.
To add onto the ever-growing collection of Veidt phoning Universal to get dialogue recorded for The Last Performance. All those Polish newspaper being uploaded to the Internet Archive are a treat.
The first one I have never seen, the last one I have, but the scan is a bit better (i.e. it doesn't look like a Santiago Pilgrim came up to it and scrapped it).
Speaking of The Last Performance...
Now, where can we find the OG pics...
Art dump time :D
Otto and Hansie ;w;
Because there's quite a few (American) posters with lightning imagery for The Last Performance.
Fanposter for The Student of Prague, more based on energies than anything else.
Karl Dark Journey for your consideration :D
Come on, you can't make Conrad Veidt play a character that buys all the dresses from his love interest and not make him wear at least one.
Did I spend an hour looking at 1930s dresses? Yes. Does the film take place in WWI? Also yes, but they still dress 1930s, and I like to follow canon :P
(It occurred to me it was probably intentional because a) lack of money and b) Madeleine owns a clothes shop, might as well have all the latest fashions to appeal to the audience)
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Date: 8 Jul 2024 15:18 (UTC)Is it possible that if ANIM restored any copy they have, they made Portuguese subs? If so, it would make sense to have them in the archives!
And speaking of Anders als die Andern, the UCLA (?) recon is available for everyone to see.
*heart eyes*
And your art is really great! Otto and his bird friend are absolutely adorable, I love them! And Karl looks so amazing! Style goals!!! Absolutely, there's no way he didn't wear one of those dresses at the very least! Headcanon accepted! <3 Now I'm thinking that you could draw more dresses so that he can change them, like with paper dolls! :D
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Date: 9 Jul 2024 14:38 (UTC)It's strange, since it appears they never used them (at least in that festival, but I have no other records of the film being shown here).
The UCLA recon is a bit different from the other one, mostly stylistically, but they're all based on the same sources anyway. It's tinted, it's neat, the butler wants to be in the shot and they immediately cut away :P
Thank you so much about the art compliments :D
His wardrobe was filled with them! He had to! I think he's butler knows more than he's letting on when he said "all clothes and no women"!
Oh dear, oh dear I'm getting ideas O_O
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Date: 9 Jul 2024 16:47 (UTC)Haha, yes, but it's still important that everyone can finally watch it, right? <3
Mwahaha! XD
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Date: 9 Jul 2024 16:56 (UTC)The paper doll shall be absolutely fabulous, or rather, fabelhaft!
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Date: 10 Jul 2024 13:37 (UTC)I haven't heard of Compu, but I know there's lots of people seeking out vhs versions of films that haven't been released on anything else, so hurrah for one turning up on the archive!
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Date: 10 Jul 2024 16:08 (UTC)And I shall do MORE *evil laugh*. It was a lot of fun, but Karl needs more dresses.
If Madeleine isn't being praised by all those fashion history enthusiasts, I will throw a chair :D
Compu Movie is basically a music video compilation (music videos in the same way like Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime is, more like video art). Sato is an interesting artist.
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Date: 11 Jul 2024 13:55 (UTC)no subject
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