Cabiria (Silent)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2000
- Originally Released: 1914
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bartolomeo Pagano | |
Performer: | Gina Marangoni, Letizia Quaranta, Italia Manzini & Litizia Catena | |
Directed by | Giovanni Pastrone |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
In its particular way, Cabiria is beautiful and enthralling.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The mechanical effects are thrilling and excellent, and the photo drama is one of the most effective ever shown here.
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New York Times
Rating: A+ --
. The exotic drama, suspense, and daring stunts on display in Pastrone's film of "12,000 shots" is every bit, if not more effective, than that of modern filmmakers whose use of green-screen CGI is frequently used more as a crutch than a meaningful storyte
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ColeSmithey.com
...One of the most influential films ever made...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
The international success of this Italian spectacle, the longest and most expensive motion picture made up to that date, allowed DW Griffith to gain support for his large-scale projects.
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Radio Times
This stunning silent epic was a huge influence on D.W Griffiths when he came to make Intolerance, and matches that film for scope, vision and spectacle.
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Film4
Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 film is one of several early Italian epics that significantly influenced the form and flow of the feature film, then in its developmental infancy.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Inspired by grand opera and Italy's imperialist victory in the Libyan War (1911-12), the Italian movie industry produced dozens of historical epics in the period just before World War I. The most influential and successful of these was Cabiria, the visually spectacular film which set the standard for big-budget feature-length movies around the world and opened the way for D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille.
The story concerns a girl - Cabiria - who is separated from her parents during the Punic Wars in the Third Century B.C. In her odyssey through the world of ancient Rome, she encounters the eruption of Mt. Etna, capture by pirates, the barbaric splendor of Carthage, human sacrifice and Hannibal crossing the Alps. With meticulous care given to costume and set design, Cabiria was shot in North Africa, Sicily and the Italian Alps.
This Kino on Video edition was mastered from a premiere quality 35mm print at the correct projection speed. The piano soundtrack, performed by Jacques Gauthier, is adapted from the original 1914 score.
Product Description:
During the war between Carthage and Rome, a girl is separated from her parents. In her odyssey through the world of ancient Rome, she encounters an erupting volcano, the barbaric splendor of Carthage, human sacrifice and Hannibal crossing the Alps. Silent film with piano score.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 12,225
- UPC: 738329018726
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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