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By Hank Reineke
One need not be an enthusiast of silent-era cinema to find Bill Morrison’s illuminating Dawson City: Frozen Time a totally engrossing, masterfully assembled documentary. Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, of the Klondike Gold Rush, of film preservation, or of time-capsule newsreel footage will find this film absolutely fascinating and rewarding. Aside from a bit of on-screen prefatory and postscript talking-head commentary - courtesy of the two surviving and earliest on-site “lost film” investigators - most of Morrison’s two-hour long film is presented to us as an intriguing mosaic; an emotive montage expertly combining the imagery of long-lost vintage newsreels, miraculously salvaged snippets of silent film footage, and an astonishing series of rescued glass-plate negative photographs – the latter courtesy of Klondike Gold Rush chronicler Eric Hegg (1867-1947).
There is,...
By Hank Reineke
One need not be an enthusiast of silent-era cinema to find Bill Morrison’s illuminating Dawson City: Frozen Time a totally engrossing, masterfully assembled documentary. Anyone with even a passing interest in the history of the 19th and 20th centuries, of the Klondike Gold Rush, of film preservation, or of time-capsule newsreel footage will find this film absolutely fascinating and rewarding. Aside from a bit of on-screen prefatory and postscript talking-head commentary - courtesy of the two surviving and earliest on-site “lost film” investigators - most of Morrison’s two-hour long film is presented to us as an intriguing mosaic; an emotive montage expertly combining the imagery of long-lost vintage newsreels, miraculously salvaged snippets of silent film footage, and an astonishing series of rescued glass-plate negative photographs – the latter courtesy of Klondike Gold Rush chronicler Eric Hegg (1867-1947).
There is,...
- 3/18/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
This Blu is a fascinating hybrid of experimental film and historical documentary by Bill Morrison of Decasia fame. Lost film history and the vanished era of the Dawson Gold Rush blend into one story — all touched off by the discovery of tons of rare silent film, buried in the cold ground of the Canadian Yukon. And Donald Trump’s in there too! In the show, not the snow.
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Kino Classics
2017 / Color & B&W / 1:78 widescreen & 1:37 Silent Ap / 120 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring: Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O’Farrell, Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo, Bill Morrison.
Film Editor: Bill Morrison
Researchers: Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates
Original Music: Alex Somers; sound design John Somers
Produced by Bill Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux
Written and Directed by Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison is the celebrated filmmaker of Decasia, a wonderful film...
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Kino Classics
2017 / Color & B&W / 1:78 widescreen & 1:37 Silent Ap / 120 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95
Starring: Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O’Farrell, Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo, Bill Morrison.
Film Editor: Bill Morrison
Researchers: Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates
Original Music: Alex Somers; sound design John Somers
Produced by Bill Morrison and Madeleine Molyneaux
Written and Directed by Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison is the celebrated filmmaker of Decasia, a wonderful film...
- 10/28/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Dawson City: Frozen Time Director: Bill Morrison Screenwriter: Bill Morrison Cast: Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O’Farrell, Bill Morrison Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 5/30/17 Opens: June 9, 2017 at New York’s IFC Center If you’re a film buff, you might be one of the relatively few people who saw “Decasia,” Bill Morrison’s […]
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- 6/1/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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