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Someone please explain

posted 16 years ago by cc_brewster
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I saw the 1981 Coppola restoration at what I think was the US premiere in Minneapolis, and Gance was present. The great local musician Philip Brunelle played organ for this. Three projectors were used for the battle scene at the end.

Everyone but me seems enthralled with this movie, but to me it was a static bore that left me scratching my head. I'm interested in all the arts and am quite open to new things. I'm not normally on the philistine side of an artistic issue. I'm currently watching Gance's "La Roue" on TCM, and it has all that I would want from a silent movie, all that is missing from "Napoleon". Can someone explain what makes "Napoleon" great?

[–] bearcorg 16 years ago

I think it should be said that the Coppola restoration ( and its carmine coppola composed score)is considered to be vastly inferior to the Brownlow restoration but, but coppola blocks all showings by threatened and actual legal action.

I hope someone pees in his wineglass.

[–] benedam-1 16 years ago

"I hope someone pees in his wineglass. "

lol