Napoleone

Film del 1928 bn è muto fantastico per la bravura di Didionne e le ambientazioni realistiche , un bel film, peccato che il progetto si ferma alla prima campagna d ‘Italia , era prevista la vita completa di Napoleone !

Versione Integrale di "Napoleone" e "La rosa sulle rotaie"

Trinca G.

Recensito in Italia il 16 aprile 2021

In un unico dvd ci sono la versione integrale di "Napoleone" e de "la rosa sulle rotaie", tutti e due di Abel Gance. Metto 4 stelle solo perché non ci sono i sottotitoli in italiano nel secondo film e io ci tenevo a vederlo dal momento che, come c'è scritto sul dvd, è introvabile. Per il resto sono rimasto soddisfatto👍🏿👍🏿

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maurizio

Sorprendente

Recensito in Italia il 8 agosto 2023

Per epoca hanno fatto anche troppo durata dopo quattro ore fine terzo tempo

Una rarità da collezionisti.

Antonio

Recensito in Italia il 6 luglio 2023

Sono infine riuscito a scovare questo film.
Sono proprio ben contento.

Recensito in Italia il 4 gennaio 2023

TUTTO BENE

Recensito in Italia il 27 agosto 2020

Versione completa e restaurata certo un gradino meno rispetto alla definizione del blueray della bfi ma almeno in italiano ma con sottotitoli non eliminabili. Inoltre il dvd è ben compagnato da "La roue"altro film famoso (forse il secondo) ma con didascalie in inglese e non tradotte in italiano. Buona la traccia audio.

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Non si può parlare di cinema se non lo si è visto

Piero

Recensito in Italia il 19 dicembre 2021

Di una bellezza inaspettata. Non posso credere che a distanza di trent'anni dalla nascita del cinema si potesse fare ciò.

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Film capolavoro, DVD deludente

flaminia p.

Recensito in Italia il 25 febbraio 2021

La valutazione non è relativa al film in sé perché si tratta in tutto e per tutto di un capolavoro del cinema muto. Ma mi ritengo abbastanza insoddisfatto della scelta che si è fatta nel portarlo in DVD.
La versione integrale di questa pellicola ha un ENORME valore storico e purtroppo questa è l'unica edizione resa disponibile sul mercato italiano. Dico "purtroppo" perché si è scelto di inserire un film di cinque ore e mezza E un altro film di quattro ore e mezza (La rosa sulle rotaie, altro capolavoro di Abel Gance) su un unico disco, portando ad un abbassamento della qualità delle immagini. Immagino dovrei accontentarmi dell'avere la possibilità di vedere questo film praticamente introvabile sul nostro mercato, ma se mi si promette una "versione integrale RESTAURATA" mi aspetto molto di più...
Quantomeno posso confermare che sì, questa è la versione integrale della pellicola Napoleon, che il viraggio è stato mantenuto per le scene in cui è presente e che sono state riportate come erano in origine le scene proiettate su tre schermi diversi.

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Koninckx Stéphane

Un document rare.

Recensito in Francia il 11 giugno 2021

Le premier film sur Napoléon.
Le plus réaliste et le meilleur !!??

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M.Robinson

At long last,Napoleon,as everyone should see it,!!!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 19 novembre 2016

I have been waiting impatiently,over 35 years now,for this Amazing film to be released on DVD.In my opinion and in the opinion of many,including President De Gaul ,this is the best film ever made!.
Francis Ford Coppola released an inferior version ,using his Dads music on DVD and probably out of respect for his Dad,he dicided to copywright it and refused to allow anyone to release it in any form other than with his Dads music.This sorry state of affairs has continued for decades,with the World only getting a glimpse of the film in any other form, from a performance ,with additional never seen footage from the French Archives,in Paris about 10 years ago.Those of us that saw it in the 1980s,with Carl Davis wonderful score,have been cursing Coppola ever since!?!.
Carl Davis is probably the best conductor and composer of scores for Silent Film alive.His work on Napoleon in the 1980s on the score was remarkable for it's perfect timing and the remarkable way he fused,music of Napoleons era,including lashings of Beethoven and his own Napoleon theme,to fit perfectly with the movements and emotions of the film.The result was an overwhelming film experience,!.At this juncture,I am sorry to report that this new version of the score is not as well timed,nor as well performed or quite as powerful as the original,which I have a copy of ,however much of the timing problem ,is due to a lengthening of many of the sequences and he has had to re-adapt the music to suit it ,not always very successfully!. Don't let this put you off however,as it is still head and shoulders better than any other version available on DVD!.
I was very privileged ,as a young man to see Napoleon ,in it's true glory ,in the Edinburgh Festival in the 1980s,with Davis conducting the score live and the result was a revelation ,to all of us that sore it.During the brakes ,everyone I spoke to ,was astonished by it.I ran out of the screening ,almost shouting "Vive la France" and I am an English man!?!.It was a fantastic introduction to silent film for me and from then on,l had fallen in love and was determined to see more silent films.
For decades,I have been a proud owner of a BETAMAX copy ,recorded from one of two times that the film was shown on Channel 4.Later I copied it onto VHS and finally onto DVD.If I would have had a fire in my house,it would have been the first prized possession, I would have reached for!.
I could go on forever discussing the merits of this great film.It is a work of art,a still photo ,of just about any scene ,would make a beautiful picture to grace any wall.Abel Gance is a director aflame with creativity,his use of rapid editing is every bit as good as Eisenstein.His supra-impositions are visually stunning and the greatest examples I have ever seem on screen.His use of camera movement is incredibly inventive.He strapped the camera to a horse,a pendulum,a pulley and all sorts of devices.Marry all this visual and cinematic invention ,to a story which ,like Beethovens Eroica Symphony ,is a hymn to the idealistic young Napoleon and moments of Dickensian comedy ,fantastic battle scenes and constant visual splendour and high adventure entertainment and you have the perfect film!.
The story covers Napoleons early life ,from his boarding school days to him ,as a young General ,taking the French Revolution into Italy.It has magnificent set pieces.1)Napoleon ,with a reward on his head,escapes Corsica ,finds a boat with out a sail,uses a French flag he has commandeered as its sail and is cought up in a storm.Davis uses Beethovens 6th Symphony as a backdrop to the storm sequence.Abel Gance shows him being rocked and thrown around by the waves,then fuses another storm supra-imposed on him,a scene of arguing crowds in the French senate ,about how many people to kill in the Terror of the Revolution.Gance brilliantly puts a camera on a pendulum above them.The whole scene rocks and sways with images of la guilotine and wind blown senators,and is fused with Napoleon thrown around helplessly in a stormy sea ,all fused perfectly ,to the stormy music of Beethoven!!!.GREAT,GREAT ART!.
2)Take another example."An event seen from a small room".Napoleon is busy writing a paper about the excesses of the Revolution whilst sitting at his desc.A crowd of revolutionaries pass his window,with severed heads on pikes and attempt to hang a Aristocrat on his balcony.A series of startelling images are then supraimposed and FAST edited to describe Napoleons emotional and moral torment.Should he reach for his pistol,or should he just sit and do nothing?!.again GREAT powerful art!.Visual poetry that makes Gance stand out as one of the greatest Directors that ever lived!There is more art in five minuets of this film than two hours of any art film nowadays.!.Gances Cinematic invention never flags,the film is over five hours long and like watching the extended version of the Lord of the Rings triology ,not a minute too long and you wish you could see five more hours of it.
3)Another fabulous set piece.The introduction of La Marseillaise to the people in the Senate.A Dickensian detailed re-enactment ensues ,full of scruffy rable ,all hand picked for their expressive faces and the period detail is immaculate.The rabble are ordered by Danton into silence.The composer mounts the podium ,as sheets of music are thrown to the rable.He begins to sing,slowly teaching them the song ,until they are finally singing it with fervour and tears in their eyes,finishing with a stunning supra-imposed image of a Revolutionary woman ,surrounded by billowing flags with a sword in one hand and a brandishing the French flag.The fusion of Carl Davis music and images ,this time ,gives us a very strong impression of actually looking back at the real event ,from some kind of fantastic time tunnel!.indeed the whole film gives that effect.
4)The film is ful of symbolism.The recurring eagle,starting with Napoleons pet at school,continues to appear in symbolically powerful moments and none more powerful than the powerfully moving and most celebrated set piece ,involving a tryptic.Abel Gances unique idea of using three projectors ,to simultaneously play three 35mm films next to each other ,to initially form a panorama Later the tryptic is used to simultaneously recreate Napoleons thoughts,1)the rational,2)the emotional and 3)the spiritual and combining images previously seen from the film,in a very impressive and startling way.Finally tri-images ,incorporating Napoleons army invading and marching through Italy and the tricoloured French flag itself,whilst Carl Davis brings his faboulous score to an 1812 overture style cruciendo.The whole effect creates an extraordinary ,fervently patriotic hymn to the dream of a united ,free Europe.
A poet ablaze with creativity Abel Gance takes us to an incredible ,studio made battle which used hundreds of gallons of water ,to recreate a vicious ,night time battle with the British,in torrential rain and mud.Yet he still manages to light it all beautifully!!Other scenes include nudity,as in the amazing Ball for the Condemned where Napoleon has a close encounter with Josephine in which everything is filmed with an extreme beautiful touch.
Praise must also be given to Napoleon incarnate (Albert Dieudonne)and the very beautiful Gina Manes as a wonderful Josephine,but is is all very well acted ,though a little melodramatic at times but this adds to its charm.
Credit must also be given ,to decades of a labour of love ,by Kevin Brownlow and the late David Gill ,for meticulously restoring this masterpiece ,from a truncated 2 hours to the 5 hours 32mins.we enjoy today.

Having heaped all this praise on the film,something needs to be said about this New restoration.It is mostly superb,but like I said,the music is n't as well timed,as before.The restoration itself is great ,with some short scenes which are New ,notably in sequences from La Marseillaise section and about 10 mins. of lovely extra scenes ,expanding the Violine story.The great difference in the picture quality ,is due to the fact that the French Archives ,this time ,have allowed Brownlow to restore some of their footage,which they had previously withheld !.The picture quality is much enhanced,as many scenes are taken from negative prints.The tinting is often superb,especially the lovely sepia .In fact most of the time the tinting is quite lovely and in many sequences enhances the beauty of the film , a few sequences are in two colours simultaneously.However,again I have to mention what I did not like,the red tinting I think was a big mistake!.It is probable ,that originally ,certain sequences were tinted red,however most sequences in red mar the beauty of the image and worse ,in some instances it doesn't work dramatically!.In particular the great set piece "an important event seen from a small room"!!.The strong red colour darkens the whole sequence and ruins the beauty of the images!.The restorers would have done a lot better to have used ,a combination of the lovely sepia and the excellent blue(used traditionally for nighttime shots),on the whole set piece.The hammer and anvil sequences ,in particular ,was meant to shine strong flashes of bright light onto our faces also!,but instead the whole effect is ruined .?!!.I strongly suggest that viewers turn off the colour for seeing this ,once wonderful, setpiece and watch it in black and white.Another problem with this set piece is that it has been re-edited,using slightly longer sequences,to unnecessarily lenghthen it and destroy the great fast exciting pace of the original 1979 edit,which was perfectly timed to a fast tempo score,making it very exciting and powerful!.I think in this instance,Mr.Browlow should have stuck with the original edit!?!.
Just to mention the still very powerful ending,the tryptic sequences are much expanded,so once again Carl Davis has had the difficult task to fit in the music.He has mostly done very well,but musically ,the faster old 1980s edit ,for the single screen ending ,was superb and an opportunity was missed,when compiling the single screen version on the disc ,to show it exactly as it was originally done.Some how ,Mr.Davis lost the plot and forgot to time the appearance of the eagle to match his own eagle- Napoleon theme,a key emotionally powerful moment!?!fortunately he didn't repeat that mistake for the tryptic ending.Don't forget to watch the single screen ending however,as it incorporates a great extra sequence of the film,forgotten about in the tryptic ending!.
Tantalisingly,as a footnote,the performance previously mentioned ,that took place in Paris ,was taken from a restoration of the film,by Bambi Ballard who managed to get hold of an extra 63 mins.of extra footage ,which the Cinematheque Francaise had withheld from Kevin Brownlow,back in 1980 ,when he did his original restoration.The film was 63 minutes longer than Brownlows original edit,so as our new version is nothing like 63 minutes longer,has the French Archives withheld any sequences that we have not yet seen?!!.Someone told me there was a firing squad sequence!. From all accounts ,the music used was the original 1927 score ,but nothing like as effective as Davis's score.So the Brownlow version still remains the best !.Presumably,if it is given permition to record ,the French will release an expanded version,but will it have English subtitles I wonder!?!.As we know ,there was once a 9 hour version of this Masterpiece,so who knows what other sequences may emerge ,from the dark secretive vaults of the Cinematheque Fancaise ?!!
I could go on and on about the merits of this great work but as I am in danger of repeating myself,I will sign off and just say .if you want to buy a film ,for any open minded adult ,who loves the art of Cinema for Christmas ,you could not pick anything better.!.

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WILLIAM H VOSS

great

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 10 novembre 2021

brought back memories

Client d'Amazon

Bien reçu. Tout va bien.

Recensito in Francia il 27 marzo 2021

Parfait. Un grand merci.

RANDEL

NOT A GREAT FILM, BUT AN ASTONISHINGLY AMBITIOUS ONE! A MUST-SEE FOR FILM-LOVERS!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 13 gennaio 2017

Gance was no Griffith, but he was amazingly ambitious. A sprawling adventure in film-making with a wonderful score by Carl Davis.

[When (Oh, when?) will we get the wonderful series he scored on the Silent Era in HOLLYWOOD back on DVD?]

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