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The films of Georges Méliès are testosterone for surrealists. In 2008 Flicker Alley and the esteemed Blackhawk films released The First Wizard of Cinema, a mammoth 5 disc, thirteen hour collection of Méliès' surviving films. It was the DVD event release of several years. In 2010, the same forces have released a supplemental collection of 26 newly discovered shorts, aptly entitled "Encore".
Understandably, this is not the event from two years ago, but it is an essential, released addition in the appreciation of Méliès' unique art. Contemporary viewers with preconceived notions of the term "film" may be thrown off by the aesthetic mindset from a turn of the century experimental filmmaker. Get over it and don't look for narrative in the post-Edwin S. Porter sense of the word. There is much to savor here when transported into Méliès' very different world.
First, there are two films here that were at one time mistakenly attributed to Méliès, but were in fact directed by the Spanish filmmaker Segundo de Chomon in the Méliès style (he was often compared to Méliès). Chomon, who worked for the smae company as Méliès (Pathe), specialized in color tinting and "The Rose Magician" (1906), with its washy blues, yellows, streams of flowers and painted backdrops, including a giant seashell, exudes a heady, exotic nouveau flavor. "Excursion to the Moon" (1908) is clearly a homage to Méliès' famous "A Trip to the Moon" (1902). Sublime golds, oranges, pinks, greens and blues permeate "Excursion". Chomon beautifully utilizes snowy imagery, sleep, mushrooms, space rockets, explosions and a snow covered face in the moon, which has to be seen to be believed.Read more ›
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful
I am a big fan of the films of George Melies and picked up this set to add to my collection of his films. I am also a big fan of Flicker Alley and their endeavors to bring us quality silent film releases. I have every one of their releases so far and plan to pick up each successive one as long as I can afford it (I'm getting ready for their upcoming release of THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT, one of my favorites).
The 3 star rating applies to this set as opposed to the earlier one on Melies and to let people know that the visual quality of these films is not up to the standards of the previous offering. This is not really Flicker Alley's fault considering the source material they had to work with but someone not familiar with silent films or the restoration process is bound to be disappointed with the results.
There are some gems here like THE ALCHEMIST'S HALLUCINATION and ROBERT MACAIRE & BERTRAND and it's nice to see the Segundo de Chomon ripoffs which are rare. The musical accompaniment is varied and appropriate, but if you want to see Melies at his best then go with Flicker Alley's first set which remains definitive or with Kino's THE MAGIC OF MELIES which was my original DVD introduction. This set should be used for supplementary purposes only.
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Melies is the best. That's all there is to say. I could watch these all day and night. I hope they find more of his films and they put out more sets. I would buy anything they find.
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