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Foolish Wives
1922
Foolish Wives was decimated on release, only later reconstructed to its current, fragmented form. And yet its majestic grandeur remains—testament to the peerless innovation of its director, Erich von Stroheim.
Erich Von Stroheim, drama, silent film, roaring Twenties. FILM IN 2 PARTS!!!! The 130 minutes version left of a film supposedly 6 hours long in its primary form. The most expensive production of that time, they say. (Director Stroheim, $700,000 producer Carl Laemmle, $1,300,000). Monte Carlo was entirely recreated on Hollywood backlot.
Foolish Wives. Available on MUBI, Prime Video. As artistically brilliant as it is gleefully perverse, FOOLISH WIVES is Erich von Stroheim's epic-scale account of an American diplomat's wife (Mrs. Dupont) who falls under the spell of a phony Russian Count (von Stroheim). With his trademark eye for visual metaphor and gritty detail, von Stroheim ...
The Jun 1922 issue of The Educational Screen listed Foolish Wives as one of the year’s “Fifteen Best Productions (of those reviewed so far).” It called the film “unclassified because of its strangely dual aspect. Foolish Wives was a great picture, carefully directed, perhaps one of the best in motion picture history. But in our minds ...
Sep 14, 2022 · The first million dollar movie: restoring Erich von Stroheim’s monumental Foolish Wives. One hundred years after its original release, Erich von Stroheim’s glitteringly debauched Riviera saga is back on screen in a painstaking restoration. Ahead of its premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, we spoke to Robert Byrne, who led the project.
Jul 2, 2023 · Foolish Wives (1922) Erich von StroheimFlicker Alley, dual format edition Blu-ray and DVDUnless otherwise noted, all photos courtesy of Flicker AlleyThis new 4K restoration of Foolish Wives reconstructs the original continuity by combining the surviving original film elements, meticulous image restoration, and recreation of the original stunning color effects, to offer audiences the closest ...
Apr 28, 2020 · Universal decided to exploit the movie’s obscene cost, more than twice that of Griffith’s monumental Intolerance (1916), by promoting Foolish Wives as the first million-dollar picture. The studio also forced drastic edits—the cut that premiered in early 1922 was three and a half hours long. But that was just the beginning of the film’s ...
