V roce 2005, ke 100. výročí narození, se s Garbo roztrhl pytel. Vysílaly se cykly jejích filmů různě po evropských televizích, TCM mělo září měsícem GG a Warner bros. vydalo DVD kolekci. Signature collection v Čechách dostupná zatím není, ale můžete si ji objednat přes zahraniční e-shop.
Tady je článek (ENG) o obsahu kolekce a popis bonusů (pro které stojí za to do těchto DVD investovat).
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September will belong to Greta Garbo: The Region 1 DVD (U.S. / Canada / U.S. territories) box set Garbo: The Signature Collection is scheduled to come out on September 6, 2005. The release has been timed to coincide with what would have been Garbo’s 100th birthday on September 18.
The ten-film, ten-disc set is divided into two parts: TCM Archives: Garbo Silents and a collection of Garbo talkies. The Garbo films included are the talkies Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Anna Karenina, Queen Christina, Ninotchka, and Camille, plus the silents Flesh and the Devil, The Temptress, and The Mysterious Lady.
Among countless bonuses, the set offers a feature-length documentary by author-documentarian Kevin Brownlow.
TCM Archives: Garbo Silents B&W Audio: English (Stereo)
Flesh and the Devil (1926) is a beautifully shot melodrama about a vamp (Garbo) who gets in the way of a very intimate friendship between John Gilbert and Lars Hanson. Future five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown directed. 116 minutes
In The Temptress (1927), Garbo’s seductive charms wreak more havoc among the poor and helpless men who fall under her spell. This time, one of the victims is Antonio Moreno. Fred Niblo, fresh off his Ben-Hur success, directed. 106 minutes (See Ben-Hur Collector’s Edition DVD.)
The ten-film, ten-disc set is divided into two parts: TCM Archives: Garbo Silents and a collection of Garbo talkies. The Garbo films included are the talkies Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Anna Karenina, Queen Christina, Ninotchka, and Camille, plus the silents Flesh and the Devil, The Temptress, and The Mysterious Lady.
Among countless bonuses, the set offers a feature-length documentary by author-documentarian Kevin Brownlow.
TCM Archives: Garbo Silents B&W Audio: English (Stereo)
Flesh and the Devil (1926) is a beautifully shot melodrama about a vamp (Garbo) who gets in the way of a very intimate friendship between John Gilbert and Lars Hanson. Future five-time Oscar nominee Clarence Brown directed. 116 minutes
In The Temptress (1927), Garbo’s seductive charms wreak more havoc among the poor and helpless men who fall under her spell. This time, one of the victims is Antonio Moreno. Fred Niblo, fresh off his Ben-Hur success, directed. 106 minutes (See Ben-Hur Collector’s Edition DVD.)
The Mysterious Lady (1928) is a sort of silent Mata Hari, in which Garbo plays a seductive Russian spy. Lars Hanson co-stars. Fred Niblo directed. 89 minutes
DVD Special Features include:
• Settling the Score: A behind-the-scenes look at the TCM Young Film Composers Competition and the scoring of notable silent movies, including these Garbo classics • Commentary on Flesh and the Devil by Garbo author Barry Paris • Commentary on The Temptress by Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy author Mark A. Vieira • Commentary on Mysterious Lady by film historians Tony Maietta and Jeffrey Vance • The Divine Woman: Surviving 9-minute excerpt of this 1928 silent film • Alternate ending on The Temptress • Photo montages on Garbo’s silent years at MGM • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Garbo’s Talkies:
Anna Christie (1930) B&W Audio: English (Mono)90 minutes
Garbo’s first talkie is a dreary affair indeed; it’s worth watching solely as a historical curiosity. In the film, the star plays Eugene O’Neill’s tarty heroine, who finds love in the sleazy docks. Charles Bickford is the romantic interest, but it’s Marie Dressler who almost steals the show.
Garbo was nominated for an Academy Award for her godawful playing (and for her marginally better impersonation of an Italian opera diva in Romance that same year). Director: Clarence Brown.
The German-language version of Anna Christie (1931), generally considered superior to the English version, is included in the disc. It was directed by Jacques Feyder.
DVD Special Features include:
• German-Language version • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
© Matias Bombal Collection
Mata Hari (1931) B&W Audio: English (Mono)89 minutes
The Swedish Garbo is surprisingly good in this melodrama about a (part-)Javanese dancer who also happens to be a German secret agent. Mexican Ramon Novarro is her Russian lover. The international cast of characters also includes Americans Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone playing Frenchmen.
Mata Hari was one of the biggest box-office hits of the early 1930s. Directed by George Fitzmaurice.
DVD Special Features include:
• Theatrical Trailer • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Grand Hotel (1932) B&W Audio: English (Mono)112 minutes
Based on Vicki Baum’s play, Grand Hotel is a plodding, overlong tale of crossed lives and loves at the Berlin hotel of the title. The film, however, is historically important, for it’s quite possibly the first motion picture to boast a five-star cast: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore.
Directed by Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel was an enormous hit and the winner of the Best Picture Academy Award for the period 1931-1932.
DVD Special Features include:
• New documentary Checking Out: Grand Hotel • Premiere newsreel • Vintage musical short Nothing Ever Happens • Just a word of warning theatre announcement • Trailers of the film and of the 1945 remake Week-End at the Waldorf starring Walter Pigeon, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Van Johnson, and Edward Arnold • Languages: English and French • Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish
Queen Christina (1933) B&W Audio: English (Mono)99 minutes
Queen Christina (Greta Garbo) of Sweden falls in love with the Spanish envoy played by John Gilbert. This cinematic masterpiece was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and it offers what is arguably Garbo’s greatest performance. (More on Queen Christina at AltFG’s Best of the Best of 1933.)
DVD Special Features include:
• Theatrical trailer • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Anna Karenina (1935) B&W Audio: English (Mono)93 minutes
Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel of a wife and mother who gives it all up for red-hot romance, this glossy if somewhat lifeless David O. Selznick production was directed by Clarence Brown.
Fredric March plays the lover, Basil Rathbone the husband, and Freddie Bartholomew the son. As the unfaithful wife, Garbo won the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award. (Note: Garbo had already played the same role in the 1927 silent version, Love, opposite John Gilbert. This version is strangely absent from the box set.)
DVD Special Features include:
• Theatrical trailer • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Camille (1936) B&W Audio: English (Mono) 109 minutes
One of Garbo’s best films and performances, Camille is the old warhorse (from Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel) about the worldly courtesan and the rich young man in love. It all ends in tragedy, of course, but before the last deathly cough the star, under the solid direction of George Cukor, exudes a goddess-like radiance.
Robert Taylor, doused in more makeup than Garbo herself, is the young lover. Garbo earned an Academy Award nomination and the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award.
DVD Special Features include:
• Quirky 1921 silent version starring Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino, with art deco production design by Valentino’s future wife, Natacha Rambova• Audio bonus: Leo Is On the Air radio promo • 1936 version theatrical trailer • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Ninotchka (1939) B&W Audio: English (Mono)110 minutes
Garbo’s first comedy, Ninotchka is a classy, witty, and very funny tale about a dour Soviet envoy (Garbo) who blossoms after discovering love and Parisian lights.
The excellent Melvyn Douglas is the seductive leading man. Ernst Lubitsch directed with his usual flair, and Garbo received her third and last Academy Award nomination. Story by Melchior Lengyel and screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch.
DVD Special Features include:
• 1967 BBC Show "Garbo" – hosted by Joan Crawford • Theatrical trailer of Ninotchka and its musical remake Silk Stockings (1957) with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire • Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish
TCM Original Documentary: Garbo (2005) B&W, Color Audio: English (Mono)88 minutes
This original Turner Classic Movies feature-length documentary by Kevin Brownlow and his Photoplay Productions offers an intimate look at the life and career of Greta Garbo.
Included are rare footage, film clips from her movies, and new and vintage interviews with biographers, friends, relatives, and associates, including Garbo’s niece and great-nephews, and friends Gore Vidal, Gavin Lambert, Jack Larson, and Sam Green. Music by Carl Davis.
Garbo: The Signature Collection SRP US$99.92
The two-disc TCM Archives: Garbo Silents will be available as a separate set for US$39.92
Each title found in Garbo: The Signature Collection will also be available individually for US$19.97
A Warner Home Video release.
Anna Christie (1930) B&W Audio: English (Mono)90 minutes
Garbo’s first talkie is a dreary affair indeed; it’s worth watching solely as a historical curiosity. In the film, the star plays Eugene O’Neill’s tarty heroine, who finds love in the sleazy docks. Charles Bickford is the romantic interest, but it’s Marie Dressler who almost steals the show.
Garbo was nominated for an Academy Award for her godawful playing (and for her marginally better impersonation of an Italian opera diva in Romance that same year). Director: Clarence Brown.
The German-language version of Anna Christie (1931), generally considered superior to the English version, is included in the disc. It was directed by Jacques Feyder.
DVD Special Features include:
• German-Language version • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
© Matias Bombal Collection
Mata Hari (1931) B&W Audio: English (Mono)89 minutes
The Swedish Garbo is surprisingly good in this melodrama about a (part-)Javanese dancer who also happens to be a German secret agent. Mexican Ramon Novarro is her Russian lover. The international cast of characters also includes Americans Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone playing Frenchmen.
Mata Hari was one of the biggest box-office hits of the early 1930s. Directed by George Fitzmaurice.
DVD Special Features include:
• Theatrical Trailer • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Grand Hotel (1932) B&W Audio: English (Mono)112 minutes
Based on Vicki Baum’s play, Grand Hotel is a plodding, overlong tale of crossed lives and loves at the Berlin hotel of the title. The film, however, is historically important, for it’s quite possibly the first motion picture to boast a five-star cast: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore.
Directed by Edmund Goulding, Grand Hotel was an enormous hit and the winner of the Best Picture Academy Award for the period 1931-1932.
DVD Special Features include:
• New documentary Checking Out: Grand Hotel • Premiere newsreel • Vintage musical short Nothing Ever Happens • Just a word of warning theatre announcement • Trailers of the film and of the 1945 remake Week-End at the Waldorf starring Walter Pigeon, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Van Johnson, and Edward Arnold • Languages: English and French • Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish
Queen Christina (1933) B&W Audio: English (Mono)99 minutes
Queen Christina (Greta Garbo) of Sweden falls in love with the Spanish envoy played by John Gilbert. This cinematic masterpiece was directed by Rouben Mamoulian and it offers what is arguably Garbo’s greatest performance. (More on Queen Christina at AltFG’s Best of the Best of 1933.)
DVD Special Features include:
• Theatrical trailer • Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Anna Karenina (1935) B&W Audio: English (Mono)93 minutes
Based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel of a wife and mother who gives it all up for red-hot romance, this glossy if somewhat lifeless David O. Selznick production was directed by Clarence Brown.
Fredric March plays the lover, Basil Rathbone the husband, and Freddie Bartholomew the son. As the unfaithful wife, Garbo won the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award. (Note: Garbo had already played the same role in the 1927 silent version, Love, opposite John Gilbert. This version is strangely absent from the box set.)
DVD Special Features include:
• Theatrical trailer • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Camille (1936) B&W Audio: English (Mono) 109 minutes
One of Garbo’s best films and performances, Camille is the old warhorse (from Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel) about the worldly courtesan and the rich young man in love. It all ends in tragedy, of course, but before the last deathly cough the star, under the solid direction of George Cukor, exudes a goddess-like radiance.
Robert Taylor, doused in more makeup than Garbo herself, is the young lover. Garbo earned an Academy Award nomination and the New York Film Critics Best Actress Award.
DVD Special Features include:
• Quirky 1921 silent version starring Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino, with art deco production design by Valentino’s future wife, Natacha Rambova• Audio bonus: Leo Is On the Air radio promo • 1936 version theatrical trailer • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Ninotchka (1939) B&W Audio: English (Mono)110 minutes
Garbo’s first comedy, Ninotchka is a classy, witty, and very funny tale about a dour Soviet envoy (Garbo) who blossoms after discovering love and Parisian lights.
The excellent Melvyn Douglas is the seductive leading man. Ernst Lubitsch directed with his usual flair, and Garbo received her third and last Academy Award nomination. Story by Melchior Lengyel and screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch.
DVD Special Features include:
• 1967 BBC Show "Garbo" – hosted by Joan Crawford • Theatrical trailer of Ninotchka and its musical remake Silk Stockings (1957) with Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire • Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish
TCM Original Documentary: Garbo (2005) B&W, Color Audio: English (Mono)88 minutes
This original Turner Classic Movies feature-length documentary by Kevin Brownlow and his Photoplay Productions offers an intimate look at the life and career of Greta Garbo.
Included are rare footage, film clips from her movies, and new and vintage interviews with biographers, friends, relatives, and associates, including Garbo’s niece and great-nephews, and friends Gore Vidal, Gavin Lambert, Jack Larson, and Sam Green. Music by Carl Davis.
Garbo: The Signature Collection SRP US$99.92
The two-disc TCM Archives: Garbo Silents will be available as a separate set for US$39.92
Each title found in Garbo: The Signature Collection will also be available individually for US$19.97
A Warner Home Video release.
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