Italian Epic Restored
Filed under: Classics, Drama, Foreign Language, Cannes, Newsstand, Cinematical Indie
Directed by Giovanni Pastrone, Cabiria has long been considered
the greatest film of Italy's silent era. When it was originally released in 1914, the movie was an international
success, and is believed to have inspired "the Babylonian sequences" in D. W. Griffith's 1916 epic, Intolerance.Previously only available in a two hour version, the film has now been restored from rushes found in basement in Turin (or, as the American Sports Dictators who still say "Italy" and "Rome" like to called it, Turino) to something very close to its original appearance and running time. The restored version, which runs 190 minutes, will have a new world premiere in Italy next Monday, accompanied by an introductory video from Martin Scorsese. After the premiere, the movie will be shipped off to Cannes, where it will screen out of competition.
[via Alternative Film Guide]
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3-17-2006 @ 2:55PM
Richard von Busack said...
This is great news. Cabiria is a hugely influential film and loads of fun to watch even in its short form. It spurred countless psychotronic peploes of the early 1960s (Maciste, the strong man in so many of them, is a character from Cabiria) but on movies like Metropolis, too. (Lang didn't have to explain who Moloch was, in the fantasy scene of the Babylonian idol consuming the workers, because he probably figured everyone had seen Cabiria.)
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