Dear Videolibbers, for those interested in silent movies: this restored title is now available directly from Alpha-Omega in Germany http://www.alpha-omega.de/doku.php?id=en:showroom:pharao_dvd
Best Peter The Loves of Pharaoh, Ernst Lubitsch, 1921, Germany The DVD und BluRay release date is the 30th June 2012. Place your order now! The BluRay and DVD Edition of the restored film can be purchased here. http://www.alpha-omega.de/doku.php?id=en:showroom:pharao_dvd We offer PayPal as service provider. PayPal offers many different payment options and it is possible to pay without a PayPal account. To pay by bank transfer please email us on 'phar...@alpha-omega.de' with the details of your order. We will then send you instructions for the bank transfer. The ordered articles will be sent as soon as payment has been received. *Prices:* DVD: *24.90* Euro BluRay: *34.90* Euro The price includes a sales tax. The tax will be deducted for orders from outside the EU. *Shipping & Handling:* Germany & EU: 4.90 Euro International (all countries outside of the EU): 7.90 Euro For DVD orders the standard format (NTSC/PAL) of the country of the buyer will be shipped automatically. If you wish to specify the format please enter the information in the PayPal order form. The Loves of Pharaoh Lost for decades, a landmark silent film lives again. Meticulously reconstructed, revered German auteur Ernst Lubitsch’s The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) is returned to near-original form. Set in ancient Egypt, this monumental super-spectacle features lavish sets and costumes and a cast of thousands. Emil Jannings (winner of the first Academy Award for Best Actor) stars as the brutal pharaoh Amenes, who leads his country into war for the love of a Greek slave girl. The New York premiere of this stunning restoration is accompanied by the very special world premiere of a new score by Brooklynbased composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr.—whose provocative, genre-bending work combines avantgarde classical, jazz, and big band music—to be performed live by his acclaimed 18-piece new music ensemble, Numinous. The Loves of Pharaoh is the premiere screening on the BAM Harvey Theater’s new Steinberg Screen. Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is an experimental composer whose music combines jazz and classical technique with the influence of film and visual arts. His work has been performed at the Merkin Concert Hall, the Renee Weiler Concert Hall at the Greenwich House Music School, the Merce Cunningham Dance Studios, the Steve Reich Festival at the Netherlands’ ; Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the Tribeca New Music Festival, and the Brooklyn Spring Jazz and Pop Festival. Phillips is also the founder and conductor of Numinous, a unique ensemble of classical and jazz musicians that has performed at a wide variety of performing arts centers and music venues throughout New York. Numinous has released two studio albums under Phillips’ direction—The Music of Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and Vipassana—with a third recording for New Amsterdam Records on the way. Thomas Bakels is the founder of ALPHA-OMEGA digital GmbH, a post-production facility based in Munich, Germany specializing in film restoration. Bakels has overseen such prestigious projects as the restoration of Fritz Lang’s dystopian sci-fi epic Metropolis and, most recently, Ernst Lubitsch’s The Loves of Pharaoh. *FOCAL Awards Nomination* /The Loves of Pharaoh/ has been nominated for the *2012 FOCAL Awards <http://www.focalint.org/focal-international-awards/2012/the-focal-international-awards-2012/nominations/best-archive-restoration-preservation-title>* category ' Best Archive Restoration Title'. The winner will be announced at the award ceremony in London on 2nd May 2012. http://www.alpha-omega.de/doku.php?id=en:showroom:pharao_dvd VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
