![]() ![]() There was also overlap in the sense that waxwork museums themselves appeared on film. Early cinema often took its cues from the same source material – the legend of Sweeney Todd, for instance – and often presented its most shocking fare as tableaux which wouldn’t look out of place in a chamber of horrors. When cinema emerged, this offered new opportunities to appal and repel its audiences, but there was overlap between the old scares and the new. Taking her cues from the new buzz in Paris, Madame instituted a similar exhibition of her own in London which soon proved to be massively popular: this great success was integral in spawning a thousand other chambers of horror around the world, oddities which aimed to satiate people’s morbid curiosity about infamous murderers or horrific events, back in the days when the best you could hope for along those lines was the odd illustrated Penny Dreadful or low-brow newspaper. Though now sadly fallen out of favour, waxworks were a de rigeur form of entertainment before cinema existed the world-famous Madame Tussauds opened its first ‘chamber of horrors’ in 1802 after the successes of the French ‘Caverne des Grands Voleurs’, which had made a pastime out of exhibiting wax figures of famous victims – and leaders – of the French Revolution. (USA, 1967) by J.L.There has long been a relationship between horror cinema and the humble waxwork museum. ![]() Philippe Garnier: SPRING NIGHT SUMMER NIGHT (Hungary-Germany-France, 1966-2001) – National Film Institute – Film Archive Hungary (dvd) 9 Films de 1962 à 2008 (Germany, 1962-2009) – Survivance (dvd)īEST FILM (THE PETER VON BAGH AWARD): LA ROUE (France, 1922) by Abel Gance – Pathé Films / La Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Morris Engel et Ruth Orkin Œuvres Complètes (USA, 1953-1968) – Carlotta Films (blu-ray)īEST REDISCOVERY OF A FORGOTTEN FILM: DALEKÁ CESTA (Czech, 1948) by Alfréd Radok – Národní filmový archiv (blu-ray) e VARIETY (USA, 1983) by Bette Gordon – Kino Lorber (blu-ray)īEST SINGLE FILM RELEASE: MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (Germany, 1931) by Leontine Sagan – BFI (blu-ray + dvd) e MANDABI (Senegal, 1968) by Ousmane Sembène – The Criterion Collection (blu-ray)īEST DOCUMENTARY: JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY (USA, 1959) by Bert Stern – Kino Lorber (blu-ray) e PETER NESTLER. The jury, composed of Lorenzo Codelli, Philippe Garnier, Pamela Hutchinson, Miguel Marías, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, chaired by Paolo Mereghetti, will assign the DVD Awards in five categories: Best Dvd/Blu-ray (The Peter Von Bagh Award), Best Single Release, Best Special Features (bonus), Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film, Best Series/Best Box.īEST BOX SET: ESSENTIAL FELLINI (Italy, 1950-1987) – The Criterion Collection (blu-ray)īEST SPECIAL FEATURES: OUTSIDE. The competition is open to Dvds and Blu-rays released between February 2020 and February 2021 of important films made before 1991 (at least thirty years ago) and thus generally in line with the festival’s theme. ![]() The award aims to encourage and give visibility to quality home entertainment Dvds and Blu-rays from around the world. Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna is organizing Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival, which is promoting “Il Cinema Ritrovato – DVD Awards”.
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