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  • Abel Gance's legendary silent epic, digitally restored with a newly recorded score by Carl Davis, hits cinemas nationwide from 11 November 2016 #BFINapoleon
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    Abel Gance’s heroic depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an undisputed cinema landmark. Famed for its groundbreaking technical innovations - including its famous triptych finale - and a running time of 5 ½ hours, Gance’s epic traverses many of the formative experiences that shaped Napoleon’s rapid advancement. Cool under pressure, Bonaparte overcomes fierce rivals, the deadly Terror and political machinations to seal his imperial destiny. Monumental and visionary, the story’s chapters play out in exhilarating fashion tied together by an incredible feat of editing and technical ingenuity. Featuring an equally mammoth score composed and conducted by Carl Davis (newly recorded in 7.1), this definitive digital restoration presents this silent masterpiece in all its grandiose glory.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 496

  • @CitizenDuarte
    @CitizenDuarte 4 роки тому +438

    You know this a movie is a masterpiece when every other shot could be a painting

  • @Forsage237
    @Forsage237 7 років тому +116

    vive la france

  • @djgforce11
    @djgforce11 7 років тому +4

    Cant wait to see this.

  • @jeff_underscore9244
    @jeff_underscore9244 3 роки тому +1

    This movie trailer is like the Shirley Temple collection it always appears in the recommendations but I never know if it’s real

  • @tillerman7272
    @tillerman7272 2 роки тому +73

    crazy how this movie is the equivalent of making a movie about World War 1 today, as both events took place little over a century before

  • @deadpool6072
    @deadpool6072 4 роки тому +575

    Only if Kubrick were also able to make his Napoleon movie.

    • @dokasaku1233
      @dokasaku1233 4 роки тому +56

      please dont rub salt in the wound

    • @theking0fcomedy512
      @theking0fcomedy512 4 роки тому +34

      Damn you, Waterloo!

    • @JuicyJews
      @JuicyJews 4 роки тому +16

      Yeah, to hell with the La-li-lu-le-lo. He knew too much..

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 4 роки тому +5

      @@JuicyJews Based

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 4 роки тому +2

      Fuck Kubrik and Fuck Napoleon. Watch some non-english movies instead...

  • @DingDimlewitz
    @DingDimlewitz 4 роки тому +195

    My recommendations are running 4 years too late

    • @Kivadavia
      @Kivadavia 4 роки тому +3

      Same here

    • @AdamAus85
      @AdamAus85 4 роки тому +3

      Yeah I just saw this now. Wonder was there a bluray release. To the google!

    • @AdamAus85
      @AdamAus85 4 роки тому +2

      And ordered. Amazon.com.au came out best price in my circumstance.

    • @antoinebruxeille2630
      @antoinebruxeille2630 3 роки тому +1

      same !!!

    • @Nikolapoleon
      @Nikolapoleon 3 роки тому +5

      More like... 93 years too late.

  • @chickennugget6654
    @chickennugget6654 3 роки тому +47

    this film came out in 1927, it's very possible someone who was let's say 80 saw this when it came out. if they were a child in 1853 it's very possible they heard stories from their grandparents who actually lived while Napoleon was alive and maybe even fought in waterloo.

  • @mattlohr
    @mattlohr 5 років тому +205

    I saw this on the big screen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art several years ago, and I remember thinking, as the film ended, that it is no wonder that sound came in shortly after this film, as it pushes the capabilities of silent screen storytelling to their absolute and glorious limit.

    • @davidzof
      @davidzof 10 місяців тому +1

      Be good if they dubbed the speech bits though.

    • @davidzof
      @davidzof 9 місяців тому

      @foxhoundslugAbel Gance started adding sound in the mid 1930s

  • @spandanroy7783
    @spandanroy7783 8 місяців тому +24

    Looks and feels 1 billion time better than nepolian 2023.

    • @thecinematicmind
      @thecinematicmind 7 місяців тому +2

      Ridley Scott having the cheek to criticise Kubrick’s script. OOF.

  • @DCI-Frank-Burnside
    @DCI-Frank-Burnside 8 років тому +479

    Hope I'm not sat behind some foolish dandy who insists on smoking his pipe throughout the theatrical presentation, like the first time it was shown.

    • @stevenichols2938
      @stevenichols2938 6 років тому +19

      If you were assertive that would be an easily solved problem.

    • @TheNickNuttall
      @TheNickNuttall 6 років тому +42

      I’d prefer that to the thoughtless louts who brought their youthful progeny to what was clearly an adult theatrical presentation.

    • @BlogSnob
      @BlogSnob 5 років тому +32

      Madam please remove that grandiose decedent bonnet!!

    • @checkbordspy4608
      @checkbordspy4608 4 роки тому +8

      but thats part of the asthetic

    • @cptdalek1711
      @cptdalek1711 3 роки тому +3

      Poppycock! Youth these days just cannot restrain themselves in such deplorable mannerisms.

  • @holygoalie3
    @holygoalie3 7 років тому +623

    Man this looks impressive but something tells me it would be a little grueling to get through the entire 5.5 hours in a single sitting.

    • @300MediaProductions
      @300MediaProductions 7 років тому +261

      It actually breaks itself up very nicely into three pieces or "acts" which can easily be digested in three sittings. I watched the movie over three different nights and really enjoyed it.

    • @winstonsmith9533
      @winstonsmith9533 6 років тому +78

      It felt like no time at all, it was so engaging.

    • @SeanFisher
      @SeanFisher 4 роки тому +30

      Try a Bela Tarr film

    • @holygoalie3
      @holygoalie3 4 роки тому +33

      @@SeanFisher Hahah yeah idk wtf I was talking about 3 years ago. But I saw Satantango in theaters last October and it was lit.

    • @HasamiAge
      @HasamiAge 4 роки тому +14

      I saw it as a child on TV, they divided it into three parts and broadcast it three days in a row.

  • @spacebeam6480
    @spacebeam6480 Рік тому +90

    This looks way better than the one being released this year.

    • @Atomic_Bomber-man
      @Atomic_Bomber-man Рік тому +1

      Yeah for how it was.

    • @typower9
      @typower9 8 місяців тому +3

      Abel Gance's Napoleon is rightly known as a masterpiece. I was fortunate enough to see it on the big screen in the original black and white . It blew me away and Left an indelible mark in my memory. I never forgot the name Abel Gance and his film, despite it being the only work of his I have seen.

    • @joehuiras4955
      @joehuiras4955 7 місяців тому

      @@typower9 was it tinted like it the trailer or purely in black and white?

    • @therearenoshortcuts9868
      @therearenoshortcuts9868 7 місяців тому +3

      ya this aged well, the new one sucked
      don't make a movie about Napoleon's whole life as a biopic ... the various points of his life were metaphors for greater things
      make it about the rise of a dream,
      or the downfall of a formerly great figure,
      or regret,
      or perhaps the idea that destiny only uses someone when he serves its purpose,
      or even make it about love
      don't literally make a movie depicting the random events in his life ...

    • @borisfernandez6871
      @borisfernandez6871 6 місяців тому +2

      This post was so accurate :) ridley Scott takes on Napoleon was boring and missed any understanding of who Napoleon was

  • @blobblob7231
    @blobblob7231 4 роки тому +107

    The subject of this film is not the glory of Napoleon or France or what you think about the historic character, it's just an extraordinarily romantic adventure, exciting and deep. Still modern. I 've see that on french TV (in three parts) when i was young and i have not forgotten. It's a masterpiece timeless. Excuse my english.

    • @MightyMerlin1
      @MightyMerlin1 2 роки тому +2

      "The subject of the movie Napoleon about the life of Napoleon is not actually about Napoleon"

    • @OH-pc5jx
      @OH-pc5jx Рік тому +4

      @@MightyMerlin1 i wish people on the internet could read

    • @JessicaAbbey-Atreus
      @JessicaAbbey-Atreus 10 місяців тому +3

      Your English is better than most Americans lol

  • @flamecatcher4892
    @flamecatcher4892 3 роки тому +45

    I love how they filmed Napoléon's young times with long hair and mysterious look. I love the style which was used in the film, he looks absolutely so cool.

  • @zez_gval
    @zez_gval Рік тому +14

    Did I just get hyped with the trailer for a 96 years old movie?

  • @emmanuelgilliot6128
    @emmanuelgilliot6128 6 місяців тому +3

    autre chose que la merde de Ridley Scott !!!!!

  • @nicolaslocatelli_CH
    @nicolaslocatelli_CH 3 роки тому +35

    0:54 cette Marseillaise venue du ciel ! Juste incroyable

  • @JediMindG
    @JediMindG 9 місяців тому +4

    The movie Kubrick wanted to remake, and Ridley Scott has just....

  • @hanshotfirst1138
    @hanshotfirst1138 8 років тому +339

    Please, God, let this restoration come to the U.S.

    • @Naminski1a
      @Naminski1a 7 років тому +5

      For Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

    • @jknuttel
      @jknuttel 4 роки тому +24

      @@Naminski1a It what be nice if it were made available in the United States. I asked Kevin Brownlow about this and he told me he can't do it as he does not have the North American rights to the film. I bought a multi-regional blu-ray player just so I could own this film.

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 4 роки тому +9

      The US needs it's own Napoleon.

    • @laidbare819
      @laidbare819 4 роки тому +2

      @@jknuttel Are you that stupid? 😒

    • @miguelalmeida9771
      @miguelalmeida9771 4 роки тому +1

      *To Portugal

  • @Thespian821
    @Thespian821 3 роки тому +76

    This trailer gives me chills every time I watch it. If I had 4-5 hours to spare, I would watch this movie (maybe even get some buddies over to watch it with me; if they’re still awake by the end).

  • @matthewlang7019
    @matthewlang7019 Рік тому +38

    I just finished act 1 and I’m already in love. I did NOT expect to be completely floored by it so far. It’s wild!

    • @donsantos8798
      @donsantos8798 7 місяців тому

      Where you watch it?
      I'm trying to buy the bluray

  • @harditsingh7237
    @harditsingh7237 10 місяців тому +5

    Just saw Ridley Scott's Napoleon the other day. It was well shot but not well written. And BOY OH BOY am I excited for THIS movie!

  • @judu2b
    @judu2b 7 років тому +248

    One of the best movie i've ever watched. I guess i'm proud to be french and corsican.

    • @judu2b
      @judu2b 4 роки тому +4

      @Flying Hellfish You know... Jean Charpentier was my teenage hero, lol.

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 4 роки тому +10

      I’m proud to be American and Napoleon makes being French badass.

    • @arvindupadhyay9671
      @arvindupadhyay9671 4 роки тому +3

      I surrender

    • @andreaz9971
      @andreaz9971 4 роки тому +8

      Corsica is italian

    • @kieronevans5150
      @kieronevans5150 3 роки тому +1

      It made me want to be French

  • @StoutandSteady
    @StoutandSteady 10 місяців тому +7

    1927, art. 2023, drek.

  • @benwatford3068
    @benwatford3068 6 років тому +277

    0:16
    0:25
    0:32
    Dude those shots

    • @amaurya7689
      @amaurya7689 5 років тому +34

      it is art

    • @Dad-lu1oi
      @Dad-lu1oi 4 роки тому +11

      those were so beautiful!!

    • @leetorry
      @leetorry 4 роки тому +17

      You missed 1:01 - 1:04

    • @orestispitsillides
      @orestispitsillides 3 роки тому

      So legendary and beautiful in the same time

    • @yvc9
      @yvc9 3 роки тому

      jesus this is mind blowing

  • @frankpoupart11
    @frankpoupart11 2 роки тому +5

    Vive l'empereur!

  • @erebousde
    @erebousde Рік тому +27

    0:26 This shot is absolutely insane... never after this was this done again.

    • @thekingsof863
      @thekingsof863 Рік тому

      Am I missing something? It’s just a face shot?

    • @fjgarcia3
      @fjgarcia3 10 місяців тому +3

      It does remind me of a shot in The Return of the King, when Gandalf draws the nazgul dragons away with a bright light from his staff in horseback.

  • @lb76140
    @lb76140 Рік тому +17

    This weekend, i've seen this movie. It was an incredible experience. So modern and so beautiful. Definitly a masterpiece, thanks for your works on the restoration of this movie !

  • @jknuttel
    @jknuttel 3 роки тому +40

    A massive restoration of this film is underway to restore it to its original 7-hour length. This restoration is being financed by Netflix and the French National Film Board. Hopefully, it will be screened in 2022. I'm not sure if Kevin Brownlow is involved in this restoration.
    When I met Mr. Brownlow at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival a few years ago I asked him if his restoration would be available in the USA. Alas, no, he told me, as he does not have the film's North American rights.

    • @debranchelowtone
      @debranchelowtone 2 роки тому +4

      Georges Mourier is doing it.

    • @minisculesum005
      @minisculesum005 2 роки тому +3

      is this still happening, the only articles mentioning it were from last year

    • @felinvirginia1
      @felinvirginia1 Рік тому +8

      @@minisculesum005 yes the rework should be done by the end of 2023 and the projection will start in 2024 for the 220th anniversary of his coronation

    • @vgmaster9
      @vgmaster9 Рік тому +1

      Isn't there a 9 hour version?

    • @smkh2890
      @smkh2890 Рік тому

      I saw a version of this Napoleon par Abel Gance at the BFi in the late 1960's maybe 1970
      maybe Kevin Brownlow continued working on it after that.

  • @jimalexander687
    @jimalexander687 5 років тому +75

    Saw the 4 hour version on television about 25 years ago. Sadly, this is not available in the U.S.
    Even more frustrating is that this film doesn't even cover up to his becoming Emperor. They could have made another 9 to 12 hours of material of what happened after this film ended. Sadly, there were no sequels.

    • @daydreamcon6343
      @daydreamcon6343 4 роки тому +15

      Jim Alexander this movie was supposedly going to be 9 hours long and there was gonna be 4 sequels. Can you imagine that

    • @merabjuarez6866
      @merabjuarez6866 4 роки тому +3

      Now you can watch it in the app called Mubi! 🤗

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell 4 роки тому +9

      This was intended to be the first in a series of films covering Napoleon's life. Gance spent the entire budget making this, the first film. Then, sound arrived. End of story.

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell 4 роки тому +2

      @Vincent Boies Afraid? No. Gance continued to make films in the sound era, but with little enthusiasm. Gance, who died forty years ago, didn't appreciate or take advantage of sound. There were directors and Artists of the silent era adapted to sound. Some became better. Others simply gave up and retired. Gance did a film about Beethoven which is full of scenes showing he could've been an influential Artist in the sound era - if he'd put work into it. Hitchcock made the transition to sound brilliantly and willingly. Gance felt about sound the way some musicians felt when stereo recording arrived. They didn't see why it was necessary or how it could make their work better. Gance lived a half century into the sound era. His only truly significant achievement during those fifty years was being rediscovered by Kevin Brownlow.

    • @Lupinthe3rd.
      @Lupinthe3rd. 3 роки тому +1

      @@TheStockwell if gance was brilliant he would have gone the chaplin rote use sound for music and effects but kept it silent.

  • @alexpollock6932
    @alexpollock6932 4 роки тому +19

    Seeing this makes me think how good Marty Feldman would have been in a Napoleon parody

    • @justinneill5003
      @justinneill5003 4 роки тому +1

      Oops... until I read the script, II was just about to say this WAS a fine performance by Marty Feldman.

  • @SapeHallward
    @SapeHallward 3 роки тому +3

    Emo napoleon

  • @loge10
    @loge10 8 місяців тому +5

    In the very early 1970s, I received as a gift the great book of Kevin Brownlow, "The Parade's Gone By", a wonderful history of the silent film told in the voices of those who were involved in the industry. There of course is a whole chapter on Abel Gance. I really caught Kevin's deep passionfor silent films and his name attached to this restoration actually has me wanting to go out and buy a region-free Blu-ray player so I can see it as it is criminally not available in an American format.

  • @michelrobin4508
    @michelrobin4508 8 місяців тому +3

    Une Grande Oeuvre Unique au CINEMA !

  • @fefosu3832
    @fefosu3832 3 роки тому +17

    El mítico Abel Gance nos dejó esta maravillosa producción del cine mudo sobre parte de la vida de Bonaparte. Una producción épica y a la vez llena de un lirismo único propio de este gran director de cine francés. La remasterización de esta película hecha por Francis Ford Coppola tiene un gran mérito pero en ciertos colores se desvirtúa algo el blanco y negro original. La banda sonora es bellísima y más cuando se ha hecho en vivo y en directo.

  • @peterpan4713
    @peterpan4713 4 роки тому +10

    This got me a goosebump especially when the La Marseillie come up with some romantic and poetic imagery.

  • @guileniam
    @guileniam 4 роки тому +11

    0:25 wow

  • @truongtholam8318
    @truongtholam8318 3 роки тому +3

    Hope someday will find 9h23 version 🙁

  • @michaelbrandt5416
    @michaelbrandt5416 8 років тому +20

    I´ve been waiting for this grand masterpiece to come out on vhs and later dvd, ever since I first viewed it in the cinema back in 1984 which was the 4 hour + version. Can´t wait to see what restored material is added to come close to the original screening back in 1927 where it reportedly ran for some 6 hours. Loved the book on the making of the film by Brownlow.

    • @Naminski1a
      @Naminski1a 7 років тому

      Abel Gance's Napoleon was released in the USA in 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

    • @winstonsmith9533
      @winstonsmith9533 6 років тому

      Saw in the early 80s in Miami. It was wonderful.

  • @seppukusushi2848
    @seppukusushi2848 10 місяців тому +2

    Apparently not available for the US.

  • @ArmanddesEsseintes-ry7vv
    @ArmanddesEsseintes-ry7vv Місяць тому +2

    This puts Scott's "Napoleon" to utter shame.

  • @UrNotaClown.UrTheEntireCircus
    @UrNotaClown.UrTheEntireCircus 3 роки тому +3

    Bu gün de Napolyona düştük

  • @ondrej7246
    @ondrej7246 2 роки тому +4

    I only cried once while watching a film... it was when Roundenko found his eagle

    • @lb76140
      @lb76140 11 місяців тому +1

      The same. My son (aged 7) was sad when his two classmates scared his eagle away. And he was happy when the eagle came back to comfort him. This film is magical. So pure. It moves the soul of a child as well as that of an adult (I too was marked by this scene). I thank Abel Gance for this wonderful experience.

  • @GorgutsFan1998
    @GorgutsFan1998 2 роки тому +2

    where can i rip this movie onto a flash drive to burn it onto a cd later and then put in my silent film collection? Is this still copyrigthed?

    • @markfuller3948
      @markfuller3948 Рік тому

      Yes, still in copyright. Live a little and buy the dvd or Bluray.

    • @GorgutsFan1998
      @GorgutsFan1998 Рік тому +2

      @@markfuller3948 man, fuck

  • @Fuliginosus
    @Fuliginosus 4 роки тому +7

    I liked Carmine Coppola's score when it was released in the 1970s.

  • @ChickenDelivering
    @ChickenDelivering 5 років тому +5

    Masterpiece

  • @AnglicanFish
    @AnglicanFish 4 роки тому +35

    Nobody:
    UA-cam recommendations: here’s a vid from 4 years ago

    • @paulwelch1992
      @paulwelch1992 4 роки тому

      Some recommendations are timeless.. They did sent it to you four years ago but you were on Gallifray at the time but you could always nip back four years and access the original recommendation and still be home in time for tea..

    • @AnglicanFish
      @AnglicanFish 4 роки тому

      @@paulwelch1992 i felt warm and fuzzy after reading that thank you

    • @paulwelch1992
      @paulwelch1992 4 роки тому

      The tail wagging the dog. I haven't watched one single episode (nor will I ever). They should have begged Bill Nighy or Gabriel Byrne to do it.

    • @sauronmordor7494
      @sauronmordor7494 4 роки тому

      xd

    • @tuckerxucker1266
      @tuckerxucker1266 3 роки тому

      Anyone who disrepecccs Youtubbs gets fucking banned now.You want to keep it up ?

  • @tison333
    @tison333 10 місяців тому +3

    Un chef d'oeuvre absolu à tout point de vue.

  • @bfbsmm
    @bfbsmm 8 років тому +17

    This is a fantastic achievement, Many of the techniques still employed today were used in this epic including fast cutting, multiple exposures, shaky cam, and of course widescreen. The moment when part four suddenly becomes a 3 camera shoot is breathtaking.
    On the down side, part one is extremely long, and by the time the interval approaches you really need it!

    • @lotto77102
      @lotto77102 7 років тому +5

      Uh, you do know the film is from 1927 right? Of course it's black and white. Same for the triptych shot, that was done just by strapping three cameras together and is pretty remarkable for its time.

    • @lotto77102
      @lotto77102 7 років тому +3

      Review God USA Uh, there weren't many colour films in 1927 dude, and it was a difficult and expensive thing. Hell, even some scenes of Napoleon were filmed in colour, but projecting it was hard and making prints was apparently impossible, so it was shown in black and white.
      Idk, it seems like you can't separate classic cinema from modern cinema, so maybe you just shouldn't watch them and stop trying to apply modern standards to them.

    • @lotto77102
      @lotto77102 7 років тому +2

      Review God USA Gonna say it again m8,
      Idk, it seems like you can't separate classic cinema from modern cinema, so maybe you just shouldn't watch them and stop trying to apply modern standards to them.
      You don't watch classic movies to say "Oh, it isn't in 4K HDR even though those weren't invented then, it's trash!" you watch them because they are classics, and for some films, like this one, they were during a period where a lot of modern techniques were evolving into what we know today, and it's interesting to see them starting out.
      Think about it this way. I own a Dreamcast, do you think I own it because of the 4K HDR+ graphics and slick, fast networking? No I own it because there are some genuinely great games on it that may not have aged well, but are still great games to play.

    • @khuzaymahqureshi639
      @khuzaymahqureshi639 7 років тому +3

      First of all, you say that the directors were retards who didn't know how to use technology properly and that's why the film looks bad, but that simply isn't true. Colour cameras didn't exist back then, they had to dye the frames a certain colour - and there was no way the directors could have done anything about that.
      You also said that everything before the 50s is experimental trash, and again that simply isn't true. Infact, after around maybe 1930 asides from new camera techniques, better sound and camera quality etc Cinema in itself has stayed the same. To say that everything before 1930 is just experimental trash is garbage might be true for you, but the films made in the 1930s, 40s and 50s are of the same quality of today.
      Lastly, you personally might not enjoy films like these, but you obviously aren't a cinephile - other people enjoy these films because they can see past the technical faults and appreciate the story, or appreciate the film as a historical piece which should be admired rather than compared to modern cinema. So it's fine if you don't enjoy old cinema, you don't have to like old cinema, it isn't for everyone, but please don't insult those who do.

    • @herz4217
      @herz4217 7 років тому +5

      That's like saying that medieval archers were complete shit because now we have ARs...

  • @michaelbruns449
    @michaelbruns449 3 роки тому +3

    The apogee of silent cinema...

  • @HeavyH2006
    @HeavyH2006 4 роки тому +6

    In the annals of creative prowess- this is a legend. It truly is one of the cinematic wonders of the world. It is the all encompassing biographical narrative of Napoléon’s struggles, resilience, desires and loses- complete tour du force. I saw Brownlow’s restoration in 1981-82 when it was first shown on Channel 4, UK tv w/ Carl Davis’ score. Unforgettable.

  • @sisigpapi
    @sisigpapi 3 роки тому +3

    Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture playing near the end. He composed that after Russia's victory over Napoleon

    • @dragooll2023
      @dragooll2023 2 роки тому +2

      They composed it like 6 decades after Napoleon's defeat lol

  • @kelleydupuis1059
    @kelleydupuis1059 4 роки тому +5

    I saw this film at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco in 1981, and reviewed it for the newspaper in Vacaville, CA the following week. Carmine Coppola, who composed the music for it, was at Tower Records that weekend autographing copies of the LP record of the score, and I bought one and got to say hi to him.

  • @wmpmacm
    @wmpmacm 4 роки тому +11

    Saw this in the 1980’s in Los Angeles at the Shrine Civic Auditorium. Carmine Coppola directed a 60 piece orchestra.I still have a poster of the event. Amazing piece of work!

    • @Syncopator
      @Syncopator 4 роки тому +2

      Me too, and I also still have the poster.

    • @majkus
      @majkus 10 місяців тому

      Saw it at the Shrine as well. And was sitting, purely by chance, next to legendary animator Bob Clampett! Good memories.

  • @orestispitsillides
    @orestispitsillides 3 роки тому +4

    Probably the greatest silent film i ever watched

  • @ludwigvanbeethoven9021
    @ludwigvanbeethoven9021 2 роки тому +2

    You can find the movie with enough digging online hook up a hdmi to a laptop into a projector or big screen for those not in Europe it’s a wonderful experience and it goes by so fast even if it has a long run time it flies by leaves you wishing you could see more

  • @isaacmunguiahernandez3445
    @isaacmunguiahernandez3445 7 років тому +57

    The final silent film. A masterpiece!

    • @drakejohnson2607
      @drakejohnson2607 6 років тому +14

      Not even close to the final silent film but ok

    • @tjr930
      @tjr930 5 років тому +1

      Also not even close to a masterpiece but ok

    • @gronizherz3603
      @gronizherz3603 4 роки тому +13

      @@drakejohnson2607 I assume he meant "ultimate"

    • @vivek27789
      @vivek27789 4 роки тому +19

      @@tjr930 It is a bloody damn masterpiece.

    • @zacharysiple629
      @zacharysiple629 4 роки тому

      City Lights came out 4 years later.

  • @PhilippeMarechal-FSC-P.34-.
    @PhilippeMarechal-FSC-P.34-. 3 роки тому +6

    Une véritable petite merveille cinématographique tellement réaliste qu'on s'y croirait. Toujours aussi passionnant. Impatient de revoir ce film grandiose enfin restauré.

    • @jga3323
      @jga3323 Рік тому +1

      Petite?😂😂😂

  • @basedkaiser5352
    @basedkaiser5352 Рік тому +2

    That thumbnail was kino af !

  • @leandromarcosmartins
    @leandromarcosmartins 2 роки тому +3

    Cinema raiz!

  • @frammenti93
    @frammenti93 9 місяців тому +1

    This is a movie from the future, just like Abel Gance.
    Incredible movie, everyone should watch it.

  • @FixedA
    @FixedA 2 місяці тому +1

    this movie is only needed to brag to your friends what an intellectual you are for watching it

  • @shiven513
    @shiven513 10 місяців тому +3

    Quite literally the most brilliant film ever made. Nothing will ever in the history of cinema will reach this level of beauty and power.

  • @Daniel-Rosa.
    @Daniel-Rosa. 5 років тому +41

    0:23 *Aha,* mr. Kubrick! Is that so? And you, there, (not!) secretly spending years trying to remake it when there is one perfectly fine...! HUM!

    • @laidbare819
      @laidbare819 4 роки тому +13

      He wasn't trying to remake this particular film, he was researching how to make his own version but he knew it would be impossible to do as a feature film because of the sheer amount of material that telling the story of Bonaparte needed in order to do it justice.
      Now we are in an age where the serial programme is popular it would be possible, sadly though Mr Kubrik is no longer with us and today's producers have not the capacity of insight to even begin to write a script on this subject.
      The BBC did War & Peace a few years ago and they made a right ash of it. I generally don't mind Paul Dano but I couldn't wait to turn the TV off after watching and listening to his winning, snivelling portrayal of Pierre Bezukhov 😒
      I suppose bugdet is a major consideration, and pitfall, when trying to apply such epics to cinema or television.

    • @devindevon
      @devindevon 4 роки тому +7

      Any film about Napoleon Bonaparte is not automatically a re-make of Gance's "Napoleon", if that were the case it's already been re-made many times, including by Gance himself in "Austerlitz" in 1960. Check out Sergei Bondarchuk's "Waterloo" from 1971. It's good stuff. I suspect the film Kubrick would have made would also have been a more realistic depiction of events than Gance's highly fanciful hero worship. But hey, I do like Gance's film, it's just not the last word on Bonaparte's life.

    • @mujeebnoorathangal7806
      @mujeebnoorathangal7806 4 роки тому +2

      I think Kubrick was not a fan of the film.

    • @devindevon
      @devindevon 4 роки тому +4

      "I found it really terrible. Technically Gance was ahead of his time and he introduced new film techniques - in fact Eisenstein credited him with stimulating his initial interest in montage - but as far as story and performance goes it's a very crude picture." - Stanley Kubrick

    • @stewartbloomfield8035
      @stewartbloomfield8035 3 роки тому +1

      Stanley could'nt make this film because the studio was worried after Waterloo did'nt do so well at the box office and anyway Stanley made Barry Lyndon. stew fmj crew.

  • @haircafekevin
    @haircafekevin 4 роки тому +3

    I remember watching this in theaters when it first came out. It was incredible but I had to take two bathroom breaks because it was so long. Looking forward to rewatching it so I can see what I missed.

    • @tedmerr
      @tedmerr Рік тому

      they had 3 intermissions when I saw it

  • @josel.mendez5945
    @josel.mendez5945 8 років тому +6

    full enjoyment frame by frame, not words to see this epic flim

  • @AdilBilal622
    @AdilBilal622 Рік тому +2

    There's nothing we can do.

  • @LumièresETténèbres
    @LumièresETténèbres 3 роки тому +3

    Seen it a few days ago, that was truly the best biopic experience i have ever seen... a true modern way and a genius silent film. A true film ! Abel Grance fucking knew how to do films !

  • @ParzivalTheThird
    @ParzivalTheThird 3 роки тому +15

    I still can’t get over this. I’ve watched this video, like, a hundred times, and I’ve never more eagerly wanted to experience a film. But of course, the Blu-Ray is only Region 2, so all I have is this trailer :(

    • @sc0tz_tomza507
      @sc0tz_tomza507 2 роки тому

      I bought the Blu-ray today, it’s beautiful. I’m going to watch the first part tonight I’ll get back to you in a few days and tell you if it’s worth buying a region free player!

    • @u-n-i
      @u-n-i Рік тому

      Did you ever get to watch it? If not I can provide you a link for site viewing.

    • @ParzivalTheThird
      @ParzivalTheThird Рік тому

      @@u-n-i I have not. Would appreciate it.

    • @u-n-i
      @u-n-i Рік тому

      @@ParzivalTheThird Do you have Discord?

    • @ParzivalTheThird
      @ParzivalTheThird Рік тому

      @@u-n-i Lol I edited this

  • @binghamguevara6814
    @binghamguevara6814 4 роки тому +7

    When I see the widescreen triptych ending I visualise the widescreen images of 2001:A Space Odyssey and imagine Kubrick directing those shots, and the large titled ending at 1:25 saying _Napoleon_ Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

  • @mabusestestament
    @mabusestestament 8 років тому +9

    Kermode brought me here.

  • @davidromeira8958
    @davidromeira8958 Рік тому +1

    Whos here after Ridley Scott napoleon trailer?

  • @86scottjm
    @86scottjm Рік тому +1

    Did people actually go to the pictures back then and sit through a 5 hour film?

    • @m.r4841
      @m.r4841 Рік тому +5

      Yes. Many places had an orchestra playing to play the live soundtrack because the movie itself had no audio. I imagine it being very impressive for the time.

    • @86scottjm
      @86scottjm Рік тому

      @sydmccreath4554 you OK bro?

  • @wlasley1
    @wlasley1 7 років тому +16

    Starving for this in the States!

  • @kangarooMonkee
    @kangarooMonkee Рік тому +3

    That Kubrick quote will never not be funny.

    • @wserthmar8908
      @wserthmar8908 10 місяців тому

      Why? Could you please explain?

    • @kangarooMonkee
      @kangarooMonkee 10 місяців тому +1

      @@wserthmar8908 this was meant to be a “if you know, you know” kind of joke, but since you’re interested, it’s because it’s out of context. In the full quote he says it’s technically brilliant, then says “but on the other hand, as a film about Napoleon, I have to say I’ve always been disappointed in it”. What makes this funnier is that in another interview he would say “I found it really terrible. Technically he was ahead of his time and he introduced inventive new film techniques-in fact Eisenstein credited him with stimulating his initial interest in montage-but as far as story and performance goes it's a very crude picture”, so they’re using an out of context quote from a guy who didn’t like the film in a trailer for it.
      It’s a small thing but it makes me smile every time I think about it.

    • @wserthmar8908
      @wserthmar8908 10 місяців тому +1

      @@kangarooMonkee , thank you for your detailed and elaborate explanation! Much appreciated

  • @majkus
    @majkus 10 місяців тому +1

    Anywhere you could mount a 1927 film camera, Gance tried it. Wow.

  • @mar10ssj1
    @mar10ssj1 4 роки тому +10

    Spoilers:
    He lost the battle at Waterloo.

    • @mar10ssj1
      @mar10ssj1 3 роки тому +2

      @@badiebakiri1294 you were warned. You were like a moth drawn to a flame. You were the architect of your own demise. Kind of like Napoleon, oops other spoiler.

    • @panoskatrin4910
      @panoskatrin4910 10 місяців тому

      @@mar10ssj1 it ends before his invasion of italy

  • @imperiodobrasilball8395
    @imperiodobrasilball8395 4 роки тому +5

    *VIVEZ L'EMPIRE FRANÇAIS! VIVE LONGTEMPS L'EMPEREUR NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE!*

  • @OlleForsberg
    @OlleForsberg 4 роки тому +1

    I don't remember these scenes from Napoleon Dynamite?

  • @Tomoko_Kuroki888
    @Tomoko_Kuroki888 2 роки тому +3

    This is the best movie ever made imo

  • @dodec8449
    @dodec8449 4 роки тому +1

    Too bad I can't see this as a non-British person ... or I have to fool around with a VPN

  • @jamesalexander3530
    @jamesalexander3530 Рік тому +5

    There are a number of descriptions of Napolean from first-hand eyewitnesses. A description of Napoleon by Doctor Corvisart in 1802: "Napoleon was of short stature, about five feet two inches by French measure [5 feet 6 inches, English measure], and well built, though the bust was rather long. His head was big and the skull largely developed. His neck was short and his shoulders broad.
    He had no personal apprehension one who met him said. "I noticed that He picked his nose very much,--sometimes took Snuff, and would take off His Hat and wipe his forehead in a careless manner."
    Another: "His long hair was gathered in a pigtail. He was very thin and haggard; coughed often, as if he were consumptive, and was hollow-chested. He had a soft, weak voice...His speech was short and precise and uncommonly interesting. His eyes were mild and speaking, his tones pleasing, and his mouth full of expression."
    An Englishwoman described his face as being 'of a deeply impressive cast, pale even to sallowness, while not only in the eye but in every feature-care, thought, melancholy, and meditation are so strongly marked, with so much of character, nay, genius, and so penetrating a seriousness, or rather a sadness, as powerfully to sink into an observer's mind. She also described his demeanor as 'more the air of a student than a warrior.'
    A description by Madame de Rémusat: "Bonaparte dictated with great ease. He never wrote anything with his own hand. His handwriting was bad and as illegible to himself as to others; and his spelling was very defective. He utterly lacked the patience to do anything whatever with his own hands.
    Another eyewitness: I had heard that Napoleon sported a rather large hooked nose, dark eyes, and dark hair- in a word, the true Italian facial type. In fact, his face was slightly swarthy, with regular features. His nose was not very large, but straight, with a very slight, hardly noticeable bend. The hair on his head was not black, but dark reddish-blond; his eyebrows and eyelashes were much darker than the color of his hair, and his blue eyes, set off by the almost black lashes, gave him a most pleasing expression. Finally, no matter how many times I had occasion to see him, I never noticed those frowning eyebrows. The man I saw was of short stature, just over five feet tall, rather heavy although he was only 37 years old and despite the fact that the lifestyle he followed should not, on the face of it, have let him put on much weight.
    Two descriptions by British observers in 1815. First Capt. Ross, commander of the Northumberland: "He is fat, rather what we call pot-bellied, and although his leg is well shaped, it is rather clumsy, and his walk appears rather affected, something between a waddle and a swagger-but probably not being used to the motion of a ship might have given him that appearance. He is very sallow, with light grey eyes, rather thin, greasy-looking brown hair, and altogether a very nasty, priestlike-looking fellow...He never gave the smallest trouble to anyone, and every day was the same; he was very communicative, and seemed fond of being asked questions; his manners are by no means good, and his voice very harsh and unpleasing."

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 6 днів тому

    Imagine this. Cinerama DECADES before Cinerama was even a thing. This film is one of the absolutely most beautiful silent film era movies ever because it REALLY brought cinematography to all new heights with shots that look as impressive as a painting. This movie was way ahead of its time and showed what the then very young medium of Cinema could already accomplish if you REALLY care. If you have to pic just ONE silent film you would have to show to people who normally don't watch them, you should definitely pick this one.

  • @smakuch3
    @smakuch3 3 роки тому +2

    I just hope to god that Criterion collection would finally make this movie available in it's entirety for the U.S.

    • @jknuttel
      @jknuttel Рік тому

      The film is available on DVD and blu-ray in England. The discs will not play in a regular American DVD or blu-ray machine. If you live in the USA you will need a multi-regional player. The restoration of the film was done by the eminent film historian Kevin Brownlow. I asked him once if he will be an releasing an American edition. He said no, ask he does not have the North American rights to the film. If it does come out in the US, it will probably come from Francis Ford Coppola, who will more than likely (and selfishly) insist that the score by his late father, Carmine Coppola , be used. Brownlow's edition uses a completely different score by Carl Davis, which is considered vastly superior to the Coppola score.

  • @johnnyk.2911
    @johnnyk.2911 4 роки тому +9

    A cinematic feast for the eyes and no CGI.

  • @themysteriousdomainmoviepalace

    The actor's beautiful face! And the uniforms!

  • @th2001_silva
    @th2001_silva 9 місяців тому +1

    the better movie Napoleon

  • @SeniorAdrian
    @SeniorAdrian 10 місяців тому +2

    0:25 just finished this movie. That's my favorite shot.

    • @Qsallor
      @Qsallor 10 місяців тому

      Did you finish it in one day?

    • @SeniorAdrian
      @SeniorAdrian 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Qsallor Two days, but i had time. You can split it as an hour each day.

  • @uhlijohn
    @uhlijohn Місяць тому

    I saw Napoleon premiere in Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theater around 1980 or 1981. Carmine Coppola conducted the full orchestra, father of renown director Francis Ford Coppola. The film was incredible! We even had an intermission!

  • @Jim-gk4so
    @Jim-gk4so 4 роки тому +5

    Sad Stanley Kubrick didn’t make his version. We could of had two masterpieces. But who cares this is a great film.

  • @Bigbadwhitecracker
    @Bigbadwhitecracker 5 років тому +1

    Google AI is really stupid. It confused Napoleon with Napoleon Dynamite which is like confusing firecrackers with Jimmy "Kid Dynamite" Walker.

  • @monnomestpersonne2532
    @monnomestpersonne2532 3 роки тому +1

    Now, I can say it for a real Overlord not from the 40k millennia : "FOR THE EMPEROR !!!"

  • @Chris-on2ou
    @Chris-on2ou 10 місяців тому +1

    Where can I watch this moive

  • @stijnvdv2
    @stijnvdv2 3 роки тому +1

    Hitler to Napoleon: Russian winters are no joke éy. Your Moscow was our Stalingrad.

  • @MS-eb8cf
    @MS-eb8cf 7 місяців тому +1

    This film is an actual masterwork. Implore anyone with even the slightest interest in Napoleon and a bit of patience to watch this film.

  • @edwardcumpstey9061
    @edwardcumpstey9061 6 років тому +3

    Americans will never be able to see this epic film.... :(

    • @ShaneyElderberry
      @ShaneyElderberry 5 років тому +5

      Some of us in the States, who adore films and foreign television series, have acquired region free Blu-ray/DVD appliances. Excellent multi-region Blu-ray player models have been available for about a decade.

  • @jqyhlmnp
    @jqyhlmnp 3 роки тому +1

    Like pta loves California and Scorsese loves the mafia, Kubrick loves authority

  • @johnhjohnhjohnh
    @johnhjohnhjohnh 4 роки тому +2

    WHERE THE THE REGION ONE BLU RAY ITS BEEN FIVE YEARS

  • @amotaba
    @amotaba 3 роки тому +2

    Melhor trailer da história, na boa