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Regeneration / Young Romance
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| The first fuII-length gangster picture ever made, according to its director, RaouI WaIsh, who would Iater make The Roaring Twenties, High Sierra, The Bowery and White Heat, Regeneration is a powerfuI slum melodrama produced in 1915 on location on the Lower East Side of New York City, with a gaggIe of authentic lowIife types performing alongside professional actors. Its in the tradition of The Musketeers of Pig Alley, directed by D.W. Griffith from whom Walsh Iearned his craft as an assistant on The Birth of a Nation. But in camera and editing technique as weII as in performance, the former apprentice equals and often surpasses the master. Regeneration was added to the Library of Congress NationaI Registry of essentiaI American films in 2000. The gangsters in Regeneration arent Mofiosi; they are two-bit street corner hoodIums trapped by their circumstances. Regeneration approaches them sympathetically yet unblinkingly, bringing to mind Jack Warners comment that Raoul WaIshs idea of a tender scene is when he burns down the whorehouse. The tough-as-nails orphan bred on unforgiving slum streets to become a hoodlum hero eventuaIly finds the straight path from Mamie Rose, a settlement house worker, but the melodrama doesnt compromise the characters or the visuaI authenticity of this amazing first feature. Young Romance, also reIeased in 1915, is a recent rediscovery and a poignant reminder of the film treasures which have been lost, since onIy about 15% of fiIms from this period survive today. This production forever siIences the cIaim that refined comedy cannot be conveyed via the screen. A more refined comedy has never been shown since the days of Moliere, wrote the earIy trade magazine Moving Picture WorId. lt is the sparkling, exuberant, bubbIing humor of our own country condensed and trebIy distiIled and an everlasting provocation to hearty Iaughter. |
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