Lonesome (2-DVD)

With all the glamor and glitter of Coney Island that millions everywhere are always eager to see
Lonesome (2-DVD)
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Format:  DVD  (2 Discs)
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DVD Details

  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 9 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 28, 2012
  • Originally Released: 1928
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh73%

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Total Count: 11

Upright82%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 281
Rating: 2/4 -- This was Universal's first sound film with only three dialog scenes (all on the beach). Full Review
TV Guide
Feb 27, 2013
In the end, I'd call Lonesome a truncated masterpiece, with footage rudely added rather than stripped away. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Sep 4, 2012
Rating: 5/5 -- I don't hesitate to call it a masterpiece -- and the best film I've seen in 2012. Full Review
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Sep 27, 2012
Rating: 9/10 -- Although to a large extent the two characters are basic archetypes, as a writer and director Fejös has a poet's touch when it comes to the details of phrase and gesture. Full Review
PopMatters
Feb 27, 2013
Some of the photography and the basic appeal of the theme saves it for a time, but for the main Lonesome drags and ultimately peters out. Full Review
Variety
Dec 29, 2019
Lonesome, Paul Fejos's exquisite, poetic 1928 masterpiece about love and estrangement in the big city, deserves to be ranked with The Crowd as well as Sunrise, though it's not nearly as well-known as either. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Feb 27, 2013
Rating: 9/10 -- A mostly-silent film that showcases all the vitality of the late silent era. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Aug 29, 2012

Product Description:

Two lonely people discover short-lived happiness in this silent drama. Jim (Glenn Tryon) and Mary (Barbara Kent) live in the same rooming house in New York City, though they've never met; Jim works in a metal fabricating plant, and Mary runs a switchboard for the telephone company. While both have friends, they both long for something more in their lives. One afternoon, Jim decides to go to Coney Island to see the famous amusement park, and on the bus he spies Mary. Jim finds her attractive, and eventually works up the nerve to introduce himself on the beach. The two discover they share a mutual attraction, and over the course of the day Jim and Mary fall in love, while a visit to a fortune teller suggests to Mary that she's met the man who will become her husband. However, Jim and Mary are separated, and despite their best efforts the two don't know how to find one another again. LONESOME was released in 1929, as silent films were giving way to talking pictures; the picture was originally released silent, though it was soon reissued in a version with sound sequences.

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  • UPC: 715515098014
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