The Last Laugh Blu-ray
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Posted September 15, 2017 05:34 PM by Webmaster
Kino Lorber have dated and detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of F.W. Murnau's film The Last Laugh (1924), starring Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Hans Unterkircher, Olaf Storm, and Hermann Vallentin. The two-disc set will be available for purchase on November 14.
Synopsis: One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. Through Janning's colossal performance, The Last Laugh becomes more than the plight of a single doorman, but a mournful dramatization of the frustration and anguish of the universal working class.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Synopsis: One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh stars Emil Jannings as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. Through Janning's colossal performance, The Last Laugh becomes more than the plight of a single doorman, but a mournful dramatization of the frustration and anguish of the universal working class.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION of the film by the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
- NEW musical score (2017) by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
- Original 1924 score by Giuseppe Becce, orchestrated by Detlev Glanert (2003)
- Audio commentary by film historian Noah Isenberg
- "The Last Laugh: The Making of," a 40-minute documentary
- Bonus DVD featuring the unrestored export version with music by Timothy Brock, performed by the Olympia Chamber Orchestra