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| Les Vampires | 
 enlarge | Director: Louis Feuillade
Actors: Musidora, Edouard Mathe, Marcel Levesque, Jean Ayme, Fernand Herrmann
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: $69.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 34358
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Silent, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 399
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 5960
ISBN: 6305837147
UPC: 014381596021
EAN: 9786305837145
ASIN: 6305837147
Theatrical Release Date: 1915
Release Date: April 5, 2005
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A classic of the mute cinema series March 13, 2005
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Les Vampires" (1915 - 398 minutes - B&W) is a classic of the mute cinema series directed by Louis Feuillade. In ten episodes, it counts the adventures of a masked assailants group who haunt Paris. The mythical actress Musidora [ the first "Vamp" of the European cinema ] is the star in the series, that achieved fame due to the great admiration among the surrealists (Andres Breton and Luis Bunuel were its bigger fans), seduced by the dreamily scenes that sometimes appears in the narrative. At first "Les Vampires" was rejected for the French vanguard directors, that considered it like a mere policeman series.
The film was saved from destruction thanks to the efforts of the founder of the French Film library, Henri Langlois, and after years forgotten, "Les Vampires" was exhibited again in the sixties, in concurred sessions that had marked time, especially in Paris, London and New York, causing a reevaluation of the critics relatively to the work of Feuillade. Andres Bazin, the great critic of the French cinema, said that "Les Vampires" was "one of the biggest film of all the times", admiration shared with the directors of the new French cinema. Today, Feuillade is placed side by side to other geniuses of the mute period of the cinema, as Griffith, Stroheim, Murnau and Gance. The episodes: 1: The Cut Head (31 minutes); 2: The Ring that Kills (13 minutes); 3: The Red Book (39 minutes); 4: The Specter (30 minutes); 5: The Escape of the Dead Man (35 minutes); 6: Hypnotic eyes (53 minutes); 7: Satanus (42 minutes); 8: The Master of the Thunder (50 minutes); 9: The Poisoner (48 minutes); 10: The Terrible Marriage (57 minutes).
Pointer To Another Review January 24, 1999
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Les Vampires is discussed in very favorable terms by Geoffrey O'Brien in the Dec. 17, 1998 edition of the New York Review of Books.
"Les Vampires" cinema redifined. October 19, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What we know about visual style in regards to French cinema is that images can be stamped into the mind in many different ways--ways American directors wish to copy even today. "Les Vampires" is nothing more than visual style at it's greatest, showing lush images and giving us a different point-of-view than we're use to. Much praise to the filmmakers on this film, consider it a true vampire documentary.
A masterpiece April 11, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Some directors have to see this work. You don't need special
effects and fancy things to achive a good film. Emotion, good
scenario and a lot of personal feeling. A classic for all times.
Some movies of the french and german cinema (1910-1935) have to be the standards for people who are involved with cinema.
Les Vampires is one of them.
Sometimes the acting in the episodes is a bit naiv but this is normal for that era.
The people who like cinema must own this work.
Brilliant, Pleasurable Films -- With Availability/Price Issues October 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you have any appreciation for classic cinema, this collection of serials is a must-own DVD set. The cloak-and-dagger Parisian underworld is fascinatingly immersive, the early-cinema film techniques are ingenious, and Musidora is a truly bewitching and alluring antiheroine.
That said, I have to comment on the availability and pricing of this DVD set (which, by the way, is well-produced and features a beautiful restoration of the films). I bought this a couple of years ago, brand-new, for around 30 bucks from an eBay seller. This was during a period when it was supposedly out of print, and, indeed, it wasn't in stock or available from online retailers.
Not long ago, the DVDs were back in print, listed as being in stock and sold through Amazon at a discounted price of about 30 dollars (or a little more), with a list price of $69.99.
Now, maybe a couple of months later, it's seemingly unavailable again, and there are Marketplace sellers with new copies listed between $120 and $600! There's even an old double-sided, single-disc edition (mine is two single-sided discs, not a flipper disc), used, currently listed for $500!
Buyer definitely beware. This set has frequently gone in and out of print, so don't rush to make a purchase you'll regret. As of this review, it's possible to track down cheap, new copies from reputable sellers on other sites (one rhymes with shme-shmay), not to mention the Unbox download purchase from Amazon. Of course, that may well change, but it's just as likely that these DVDs will be back in print someday soon and available as part of Amazon's inventory.
Sellers have the right to make as much money as they can (and considering the outrageous fees and commissions certain sites [cough cough] take from third-party sellers, I understand the necessity of a seemingly high listing price), but this has been an issue in the past with these DVDs.
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