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Avant Garde - Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329040222
Format: DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Kino Video
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Swedish (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Kino Video
MPN: 4022
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 02, 2005
Running Time: 360 minutes
Studio: Kino Video
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Full of hits and misses but still worth watching!
Ranging from 2 to 34 minutes in length these 24 films reveal experimentation in cinema when it was still new. From my perspective this series is probably best viewed along with and in addition to the Edison four volume collection of Edison classics released between 1889 and 1916.
Together these collections show important efforts to really stake out the contours of this new medium of film.
Rating:  - Not too exciting
The music is bad - real bad. I had to run at 2X speed without sound to get through most of them. As a film student I wanted to explore early film and try to see the roots of development and experimentation.
I was disappointed in most of the movies as I was looking for early innovations in film making. I only saw them in Manhatta and H2O. These two made the disk purchase acceptable.
Manhatta has some innivative shots and lighting study. It was able to tell a story of greatness ... Read More
Rating: - Back to the future
This collection of avant-garde films shows what the medium of film is still capable of yet today. What astonishes is how surprising some of the results here can be from the cameras of such noted surrealist artists as Marcel Duchamp and Ferdinard Léger: the former's "L'Étoile du Mer" seems as new and exciting as it did seventy-five years ago, and the latter's "ballet Méchanique" is still very funny. Some of the work by later famous filmmakers is not as impressive as you might hope (an early film by Orson ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie Collection of Avant Garde Shorts!
I was really pleased to buy this collection at a reasonable price. I am a cinema buff so I love to take a look at the Avant Garde. It was a real pleasure to find Menilmontant. I saw this film as a freshman in college and always remembered it. It was amazing, beautiful and unlike any film I'd ever seen before. After seeing it there, I never heard of it and never saw it again. I was thrilled to see it in this collection and it is a great film. The musical accompaniment is usually very good though a bit ... Read More
Rating: - A cinematic historical potpourri...a rare treat!
This collection is a unique addition for any film/history buff. A must have and well worth the purchase.
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