New at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting
The Hands of Orlac (1924), in which a famous pianist loses his hands in a train wreck, and has them replaced with one of the most oft-copied plot devices in the history of horror cinema…
Schizoid (1980), in which the infamous Golan and Globus hire the writer/director of the “Dallas” and “Dyansty” pilots to make them a much-belated wannabe giallo…
and…
The Student of Prague (1913), in which one of the earliest 30-year-old teenagers on record sells his soul to hell for a fortune big enough to impress a countess, and gets about what you’d expect from the deal.
El Santo is the obssessed lunatic behind 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.« And I STILL don’t give my sister’s black cat’s—
Comments
Comment from Zack Handlen
Time: October 3, 2007, 12:03 pm
I think I’ve seen that exact Student of Prague DVD here at the library. It looked el cheapo–I realize the age means you aren’t going to get a pristine print, but is it at least watchable?
Nice work as always.
Comment from El Santo
Time: October 4, 2007, 7:20 am
Yes, very watchable. There are some splotches, scratches, and frame-skips, and the score is God-awful (one of the few instances I can think of in which a silent has been issued with an original score that was actually worse than a randomly selected classical CD left to play through until the movie ended), but the picture is reasonably clear, the intertitles don’t read like the result of a word-by-word consultation with a German-English dictionary, and the film appears to be playing at something close to the correct frame-rate. All things considered, I think Alpha Video did a pretty respectable job with it. And really, with a 1913 movie that was thought to be lost until– What? The early 90’s, wasn’t it?– how picky can you legitimately be about quality of presentation, anyway?
Comment from Nathan Shumate
Time: October 1, 2007, 8:41 pm
I just made a Hands of Orloc joke here with the family last night.
Then I had to explain it, of course.