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• Tom Russell Has Serious Lapses In His Cinematic Education That He's Trying To Rectify says:

  September 29, 2009 at 9:46 pm

  I should prob­ably see this sometime…

• Nick says:

  September 30, 2009 at 1:40 am

  You got a pull-quote in the new Fantastic Mr. Fox trail­er. But they prob­ably con­tac­ted you about that right? It’s from your post about the trail­er, no?
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB9ya5KW9p4

• Nick says:

  September 30, 2009 at 1:41 am

  Apperantly it’s not, you must have seen the entire thing then.

• John M says:

  September 30, 2009 at 2:42 am

  Speaking of Mr. Fox, why isn’t it play­ing in the New York Film Festival? An odd omission…

• tinsleyfilm.blogspot.com says:

  September 30, 2009 at 4:37 am

  John: It’s premier­ing as the open­ing night film of the London Film Festival (and the AFI film fest­iv­al) and I assume London wanted the première. There were rumors of it play­ing Venice but it did not. Makes sense any­way, British author and anim­a­tion crew.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  September 30, 2009 at 8:51 am

  Indeed, I have seen the whole thing—and very much loved it—and will post the full review as soon as I can without irrit­at­ing the forces who were kind enough to let me see it. Which should be pretty soon.

• MarkVH says:

  September 30, 2009 at 9:05 am

  Watched a snip­pet of Sunrise in class the oth­er day. It reminded me of how com­pletely and utterly amaz­ing it is, and how it’s been way, way too long (six, sev­en years?) since I’ve watched it all the way through.
  One tiny, nig­gling little cor­rec­tion though – the Fox Standard DVD isn’t just avail­able in the Murnau/Borzage box; it’s also still around as part of the Fox Studio Classics “Best Picture Winners” set:
  http://www.amazon.com/Studio-Classics-Collection-Gentlemans-Agreement/dp/B0000AINLS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1254315546&sr=1–2
  Only $25, appar­ently in stock, and very much worth it for Sunrise alone.

• michaelgsmith says:

  September 30, 2009 at 11:31 am

  Thanks for draw­ing atten­tion to this mag­ni­fi­cent blu-ray disc, Glenn. The scene where George O’Brien breaks down in church and begs Janet Gaynor’s for­give­ness is indeed the greatest shit ever.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  September 30, 2009 at 11:55 am

  @Mark VH: I’m not sure if the ver­sion you cite was made from the 2008 high-def mas­ter that’s the source for the ver­sions I took screen­grabs from. I’ll try to find out.

• MarkVH says:

  September 30, 2009 at 12:44 pm

  @GK – No need, it’s not. I’d assumed Fox used the same trans­fer for Murnau, Borzage and Fox, but this disc was released way back in 2002, so it’s def­in­itely not the same.

• Jaime says:

  September 30, 2009 at 3:30 pm

  I for­got how long and involved O’Brien/Gaynor’s urb­an get­away (post-rowboat-crisis) is in this movie. It’s huge! And so elab­or­ate. Yet Murnau’s hand­ling of the image and the emo­tion­al arc it inscribes is nev­er less than assured.

• John M says:

  September 30, 2009 at 4:58 pm

  Glenn, I’m also inter­ested in your thoughts on AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN. Indiewire tells me you gave it an A.
  I for one can already barely remem­ber it. Seemed to me an almost per­versely minor film.
  Lot of those going around at NYFF this year…