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The General (1926)

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The Epic of Everest (1924)

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Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

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Foolish Wives (1922)

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The Penalty (1920)

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Added review of the Kino Classics edition of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis (1927)

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coverEureka Entertainment (England) has announced their dual disc Blu-ray Disc/DVD edition of Fritz Lang’s Destiny (1921) starring Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Lil Dagover.

The film has been restored by Anke Wilkening for the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. This updated edition features a new 2K high-definition transfer of the restoration, with the restored original German intertitles, and simulated historic color-tinting and color-toning of its original German release.

The film is presented with a newly-composed music score by Cornelius Schwehr commissioned by ZDF/ARTE and performed by the Berlin Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frank Strobel.

The edition will be available 17 July 2017.
 
coverBritish Film Institute (England) has announced their dual-format Blu-ray Disc / DVD edition of The Informer (1929) starring Lars Hanson and Lya de Putti. The edition has been mastered from new high-definition restorations of the silent and sound versions of the film by the British Film Institute.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Garth Knox.

The edition will be available on 24 April 2017.
 
coverOlive Films (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of Wagon Tracks (1919) starring William S. Hart. The disc has been mastered from a high-definition video transfer of a 35mm print held by the Library of Congress.

The film is accompanied by a music score composed by Andrew Earle Simpson.

 
coverFlicker Alley (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc/DVD edition of Frank Lloyd’s drama Children of Divorce (1927) starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper.

The film is accompanied by a music score performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

The edition also contains the documentary Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999) by Hugh Munro Neely and Elaina B. Archer.
 
coverBFI Video (England) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of Abel Gance’s masterpiece Napoleon (1927) starring Albert Dieudonné, Antonin Artaud, Pierre Batcheff and Gina Manès.

The edition features the latest restoration version of the film by Kevin Brownlow of Photoplay Productions. The film is accompanied by the music score composed by Carl Davis.

North American collectors will need a region-free Blu-ray Disc player or a region-free DVD player capable of outputting a compatible signal to American televisions.
 
coverThe Serial Squadron (USA) has released their DVD edition of the early serial Zudora (1914) starring Marguerite Snow, James Cruze and Harry Benham, with supoort from Sidney Bracey and Frank Farrington. The edition brings together the only surviving episodes of the serial (one, two, three and eight).

The film is accompanied by a new music score and sound effects.

The disc’s supplementary material includes the sole surviving episode of The Ventures of Marguerite (1915).
 
coverKino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of Fritz Lang’s crime masterpiece Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Alfred Abel, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter, Hans Adalbert von Schlettow and Georg John.

The edition features the restoration version of the film by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv Berlin, the Filmmuseum im Stadtmuseum Munchen and controlled by the F.W. Murnau Stiftung of Germany.

 
coverOlive Films (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of Cecil B. DeMille’s rarely-seen drama The Captive (1915) starring Blanche Sweet and House Peters.

The film is accompanied by the music score composed by Lucy Duke and recorded by Rachel M. Meyer.

 
coverKino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of Fritz Lang’s Destiny (1921) starring Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge and Lil Dagover.

The film has been restored by Anke Wilkening for the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung. This updated edition features a new 2K high-definition transfer of the restoration, with the restored original German intertitles, and simulated historic color-tinting and color-toning of its original German release.

The film is presented with a newly-composed music score by Cornelius Schwehr commissioned by ZDF/ARTE and performed by the Berlin Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Frank Strobel.
 
coverKino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of John Ford’s western 3 Bad Men (1926) starring George O’Brien, Olive Borden, J. Farrell MacDonald and Tom Santschi. The new edition has been mastered from a high-definition video transfer.

The film is accompanied by the music score composed by Dana Kaproff from the 2007 Fox DVD edition.

The edition’s supplementary material features a new full-length audio commentary by Ford biographer Joseph McBride.
 
coverKino Lorber (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc edition of Fritz Lang’s adventure epic The Spiders (1919-1920) starring Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Lil Dagover and Georg John. The new edition has been mastered from a high-definition master and is a companion to Kino’s 2012 remastered DVD edition.

The film is presented with German intertitles and optional English subtitles, and accompanied by a music score performed by Ben Model.

 
coverKino Lorber (USA) has released their five-disc collection of Pioneers of African-American Cinema (1915-1946). The silent era films in the collection are Mercy the Mummy Mumbled (1918), Two Knights of Vaudeville (1918), The Symbol of the Unconquered: A Story of the KKK (1920), Within Our Gates (1920), By Right of Birth [fragment] (1921), Regeneration [fragment] (1923), [S.S. Jones Home Movies] (1924-26), Body and Soul (1925), The Flying Ace (1926), Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1926) and The Scar of Shame (1927). The silent films are presented with musical scores by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, The Alloy Orchestra, Donald Sosin, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Max Roach, Samuel D. Waymon, Makia Matsumura, Rob Gal and Andrew Simpson.
 
coverMilestone Film & Video (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc and DVD editions of The Daughter of Dawn (1920) directed by Norbert Myles and starring a Native American cast. The editions feature a new 2K digital restoration of an archival 35mm print held by the Oklahoma Historical Society.

The film is accompanied by a musical score composed by David Yeagley and performed by the Oklahoma City University Orchestra.

 

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coverFlicker Alley (USA) has released their Blu-ray Disc (BD-R) edition of Timothy’s Quest (1922) starring Joseph Depew, Helen Rowland, Marie Day, Margaret Seddon and Bertram Marburgh.

The film is accompanied by accompanied by a music score compiled by Eric W. Cook and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

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