Projected medium / 1930
Title | Prix de beauté |
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Imprint | France [s.n.], 1930 |
Language | French |
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Physical description | 1 videocassette of 1 (108 min.) (VHS NTSC) : si., b&w. ; 1/2 in. |
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001 698377064
003 OCoLC
005 20110126010948.0
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008 110126s1930 fr 108 vlfre
035 (PFA-FILM)20290
040 CUY|beng|cCUY
245 00 Prix de beauté|h[videorecording] /|cSofar ; produced by
Romain Pinès, directed by Augusto Genina; written by Ren
Clair, from an adaptation by G.W. Pabst.
246 3 Beauty prize
246 3 Miss Europe
257 France.
260 France :|b[s.n.],|c[1930].
300 1 videocassette of 1 (108 min.) (VHS NTSC) :|bsi., b&w. ;
|c1/2 in.
500 Release titles in U.S.: Beauty prize, Miss Euope.
506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access
by appt. only.|5CBPF.
508 Cinematography, Rudolph Maté, Louis Née ; editor, Edmond
T. Gréville ; production design, Robert Gys.
511 1 Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Jean Bradin, Augusto
Bandini.
520 "Featuring the luminous Louise Brooks in her last major
role (at age 24), this film has a history as illustrious
and troubled as its star's. Based on a treatment by G.W.
Pabst, it was scripted as a silent by its intended
director, René Clair. But Clair left the project when he
was forced to rework the script for the addition of sound,
and direction was taken over by Augusto Genina, who, with
master cinematographer Rudolph Maté, brought an air of
actuality to this tale of a Parisian typist who wins a
beauty contest and a movie contract, only to face the
violent disapproval of her husband. Tonight we screen a
new restoration of the silent version, reconstructed by
the Cinématèque Française and the Cinetecas of Bologna and
Milan. With a key scene restored to its proper place in
the narrative, and without dubbed dialogue and sound
effects, the simple plot becomes a potent vehicle for
reflections on the mechanics of celebrity and the power of
the photograph. Melodrama and real life ironically
converge in the breathtaking ending, with the tragically
mortal heroine juxtaposed against her own immortal filmic
image-the image of Brooks, a timeless star whose meteoric
career was already beginning its rapid decline"-Juliet
Clark, Pacific Film Archive program note.
538 VHS NTSC.
546 Silent with French intertitles.
562 Restored silent version.
590 PFA 0500-01-11480. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2011/01
/26 Very good condition.
655 7 Features.|2mim
655 7 Drama.|2mim
690 French films.
690 Silent films.
700 1 Genina, Augusto,|d1892-1957,|edirection.
700 1 Pabst, G. W.|q(Georg Wilhelm),|d1885-1967,|ewriting.
700 1 Clair, René,|d1898-1981,|ewriting.
700 1 Gys, Robert,|eproduction design.
700 1 Maté, Rudolph,|d1899-1964,|ecamera/lighting.
700 1 Née, Louis|ecamera/lighting.
700 1 Gréville, Edmond T.|eediting.
700 1 Brooks, Louise,|d1906-1985,|ecast.
700 1 Charlia, Georges,|ecast.
700 1 Bradin, Jean,|ecast.
700 1 Bandini, Augusto,|d1889-|ecast.
710 2 Sofar.
710 2 Cinémathèque française.
941 0 PFA 0500-01-11480. PFA collection acquisition preview dub
2000/06/01
945 LW title varies: Prix de beaut
946 PFA 0500-01-11480. INV record created 2010/07/20 by pjs;
MIN record created 2011/01/26 by sw.
956 pfsw
956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load
957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309
994 C0|bCUY