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Title: Metropolis (Bfi Film Classics, 54) by Thomas Elsaesser ISBN: 0-85170-777-7 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Great Concept-Poor Execution
Comment: Don't get me wrong, the idea of taking a list of the greatest movies and then writing a series of books detailing the movie and its impact is a fascinating idea. The book by Anton Kaes on "M" is a stellar example of how the movie and book compliment each other. But here, in another Fritz Lang film the idea is torture. I could never get what the author was trying to say, he rambled on and on and never got to a point. It is neither a book of film criticism, nor a book on the times depected, nor quite frankly of anything else. I love Metropolis, I have seen it many times, in both the Moreder version and the incomplete silent versions. It is a masterpiece, this book is not. Watch and read M instead.
Rating: 4
Summary: Exemplary study of elusive film masterpiece.
Comment: The BFI Classics series features book-length monographs on films preserved in the British Film Institute archive. Although a wide range of figures, from TV presenters and novelists to screenwriters to journalists have contributed, the most satisfying books so far have been those by film theorists, intimate with films' cultural and critical contexts, and able to situate the classic film more satisfactorily.
Thomas Elsaesser is one of the most important film theorists of the last three decades, specialising in early and German cinema. His study of Fritz Lang's controversial masterpiece 'Metropolis' is exemplary, covering the production history, the films' many sources, the extraordinary Weimar culture from which it emerged, the original (largely negative) critical reception, the subsequent(even more negative) ideological interpretations that followed World War Two, and the film's current status as a post-modern classic of the city.
Elsaesser's clarity is all the more gratifying in that 'Metropolis', more than any other film, has been entangled in so many conflicting debates that the film itself tends to get lost; and exists in so many different cut versions that an 'original', director's version doesn't even exist. As fact gives way to theory in the second half, the study is a bit harder going, but Elsaesser is to be congratulated for showing how Giorgio Moroder, with his notorious 80s revamping of the film, 'revealed' it as much as he distorted it.
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Title: M (Bfi Film Classics) by Anton Kaes ISBN: 0851703704 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (B.F.I. Film Classics) by David Robinson ISBN: 0851706452 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Bfi Film Classics) by Lucy Fischer, Fisher Lucy, Lucy Fisher ISBN: 0851706681 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (Distributed for British Film Institute) by Tom Gunning ISBN: 0851707432 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title:Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition) ASIN: B00007L4MJ Publisher: Kino International Pub. Date: 18 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.56 |
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