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Abel Gance’s "Napoleon" Presented in
“Polyvision”
Oakland Paramount, San Francisco, US, March 24, 25, 31 &
April 1, 2012 | Read more at in70mm.com The 70mm Newsletter
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Press release by:
San Francisco Silent
Film Festival | Date:
25.07.2011 |
Maybe
a Dutch "Napoleon" poster, seen on the internet
San Francisco Silent Film Festival to present Abel Gance’s legendary
masterpiece "Napoleon" at Oakland Paramount, March 24, 25, 31 & april
1, 2012
U.S. Premiere of complete restoration by Academy Award®-winner
Kevin Brownlow
& BFI
U.S. Premiere of orchestral score by Carl Davis, who will conduct the
Oakland East Bay Symphony
(July 14, 2011—Bastille Day) The San Francisco Silent Film Festival
announces today that it will present the U.S. premiere of Abel Gance’s
legendary "Napoleon" in its complete restoration by Academy
Award®-winning historian, documentarian and archivist Kevin Brownlow, in
four special screenings at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre on March 24, 25, 31
and April 1, 2012.
The Brownlow restoration, produced with his partner Patrick Stanbury at
Photoplay Productions in association with the BFI, is the most complete
version of Gance’s masterpiece since its 1927 premiere at the Paris Opéra.
The SFSFF screenings also mark the U.S. premiere of the renowned orchestral
score, written over 30 years ago (and twice expanded since), by Carl Davis,
who will conduct the Oakland East Bay Symphony.
The spectacular presentation at the 3,000-seat, Art Deco Oakland Paramount
will be climaxed by its finale in “Polyvision”—an enormous triptych,
employing three specially installed synchronized projectors, that will
dramatically expand the screen to triple its width. The logistics and
expense of screening "Napoleon" properly with full orchestra and
special equipment have made it nearly impossible to mount. Gance’s
"Napoleon" hasn’t been screened theatrically in the U.S. with live
orchestra for nearly 30 years and there are no plans to repeat the SFSFF
event in any other American city.
| More in 70mm reading:
Kevin Brownlow
Interview - Part 1
Kevin Brownlow
Interview - Part 2
Projecting “Napoleon” – une pièce de
resistance
Internet link:
Photoplay
Productions
Silentfilm.org
Carl Davis Collection
Able
Gance
Triptych
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"Napoleon"
in Polyvision / Triptych
on screen. Image by Mark Trompeteler
Says Stacey Wisnia,
Executive Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, “This will
be ‘the cinema event of a lifetime’ and for once that’s not just hype,
considering that we may never have another chance to see "Napoleon"
presented on this scale, and with Carl Davis’ magnificent score. But
we’re also referring to the lifetime of passion that
Kevin Brownlow
has devoted to bringing Abel Gance’s original vision back to life.” Mr.
Brownlow, who last year became the first film historian ever honored
with a special Academy Award, became fascinated with Gance’s film when,
as a schoolboy in the 1950s, he ran two 9.5mm reels he had stumbled upon
at a street market.
“I was stunned by the cinematic flair,” says
Brownlow.
“I was exhilarated by the rapid cutting and the swirling camera
movement. What daring! I had never seen anything comparable—and I set
out to find more of it.” That determination led to a lifelong quest. The
first major Brownlow/BFI restoration culminated in a screening at the
Telluride Film Festival in 1979, with 89-year-old Gance watching from a
nearby hotel window. Under the auspices of Francis Ford Coppola and
Robert A. Harris, a version of this restoration, accompanied by a score
composed by Mr. Coppola’s father Carmine, was presented to great acclaim
at Radio City
Music Hall and other venues in the U.S. and around the world in the
early 1980s. Mr. Brownlow and the BFI did additional restoration work in
1983.
The current restoration, completed in 2000 but not previously seen
outside Europe, reclaims more than 30 minutes of additional footage
discovered since the 1979 screening and visually upgrades much of the
film. This unique 35mm print, made at the laboratory of the BFI’s
National Archive, uses traditional dye-bath techniques to recreate the
color tints and tones that enhanced the film on its original release,
giving a vividness to the image as never before experienced in this
country. Each screening of the 5 1/2-hour epic will begin in the
afternoon and will be shown in four parts with three intermissions,
including a dinner break. Tickets will be available online through the
SFSFF website,
www.silentfilm.org, beginning July 18.
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Abel Gance’s "Napoleon" is being
presented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, in association with
American Zoetrope, The Film Preserve, Photoplay Productions, and the
BFI. Technical services will be provided by Boston Light & Sound.
Founded in 1994, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival has showcased
the finest films of the silent era as they were meant to be seen: on the
big screen with live music composed and performed by accomplished
artists. While its annual July festival remains its flagship event, the
SFSFF now produces special events throughout the year.
Says Robert Byrne, SFSFF board president, “This extraordinary
presentation of Gance’s masterpiece is a major cultural coup, not just
for our festival, but for the whole Bay Area.”
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