Phantom

Phantom
by F.W. Murnau

Phantom
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Actor: Adolf Klein, Alfred Abel, Aud Egede Nissen, Heinrich Witte, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Director: F.W. Murnau
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language); German (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Flicker Alley, LLC

Movie Reviews of Phantom

Movie Review: Lesser Known Murnau Marred By Horrible Lead Performance
Summary: 2 Stars

Unfortunately, I must agree with one of the other reviewers here who said that the lead actor became quite annoying. Truth be told, he was pretty annoying right from the beginning. I was very disappointed watching "Phantom." There are some beautiful visual moments to be sure, but I found that the entire enterprise was all but ruined by Alfred Abel's lead performance. The character should have been played by someone much younger and much prettier. This way, modern viewers might be more apt to forgive the sillier aspects of the plot. A wistful, handsome, dreamy young poet pining for an unobtainable woman is something understandable--if quaint. But when the wistful poet is played by a man 25 years too old who spends half of the film wearing an insipid hang-dog expression on his face, the audience simply cannot relate--and can only chuckle or, worse, want to punch the television. It's that bad. Abel is dreadful and ruins what might have been an interesting and lovingly filmed time-capsule. (It's hard to believe this was the same actor who was so memorable as the capitalist father in Lang's "Metropolis"!) If you're a huge Murnau fan like me, you may find yourself greatly disappointed. Stick to his classics like "Nosferatu," "Faust," "The Last Laugh" and "Sunrise". This "Phantom" is better left lost.

Summary of Phantom

Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation is proud to present, Phantom, which marked a major turning point in the influential career and the groundbreaking style of cinema poet F.W. Murnau. In this beautifully reconstructed and restored edition from an amazingly detailed, original 1922 negative, Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti)with whom he has had a fateful encounter.

Featuring a magnificent new orchestral score by Robert Israel, this powerfully expressive and surprisingly insightful film is a triumph of German Weimar cinema and a wonderful collaboration of many of its most skilled artisans and recognizable performers. Through dazzling visuals and memorable characters, Phantom paints a portrait of the corrupting influence of money, the conformity of societal norms, and the redemptive power of family.

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