Lonesome (Blu-ray)
With all the glamor and glitter of Coney Island that millions everywhere are always eager to see
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Lonesome (2-DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Gus Partos, Fay Holderness & Eddie Phillips | |
Directed by | Paul Fejos | |
Screenwriting by | Edward T. Lowe Jr. & Tom Reed | |
Art Direction by | Charles D. Hall | |
Story by | Mann Page | |
Director of Photography: | Gilbert Warrenton |
Entertainment Reviews:
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.
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PopMatters
Rating: 3.5/4 --
finds an impressive middle ground between the easier pleasures of Hollywood and the more demanding tenets of European art cinema
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Q Network Film Desk
Rating: 4/4 --
An irresistible bon-bon of a movie, a lovely, effervescent celebration of love that is so refreshingly unironic that it may seem a bit naive to modern audiences, but that is merely part of its allure.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Dr Fejos has paid more attention to his interesting dissolves and double exposures than he has to the characterization of his story.
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New York Times
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.
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Variety
Rating: 9/10 --
A mostly-silent film that showcases all the vitality of the late silent era.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 5/5 --
I don't hesitate to call it a masterpiece -- and the best film I've seen in 2012.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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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- Sales Rank: 59,054
- UPC: 715515097918
- Shipping Weight: 0.28/lbs (approx)
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