DVD collections

Two 2-disc DVDs with 25 comedies from the HAl Roach Studio (Edition Filmmuseum 57 & 58): Newly restored two-reelers, most of them have never been released on DVD, starring Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell, Marion Byron, Anita Garvin, Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts, Patsy Kelly, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The booklets offer new essays about the comedians. The ROM section contains scripts, cutting continuities, censor's files, reviews, stills, and posters of lost films. A unique set from the golden age of American film comedy.

Fifteen 2-disc DVDs with about 200 films by Alexander Kluge (Edition Filmmuseum 20-34): All the films for cinema and a wide selection of the works for television. Also included as ROM features are short stories and texts (in German and English) as well as complete books from 1960-2009 by and about Alexander Kluge (only in German). Only this original edition includes exclusively 15 bilingual booklets with additional texts by Kluge in German and English. The complete Alexander Kluge is one of the most elaborated DVD edition of the comprehensive works of one of the most creative and influential author of the New German Cinema: The "German Godard". In the year of Alexander Kluge's 90th birthday, the exclusive box with a comprehensive register will be delivered for a reduced special price.

Four classics of the best German film comedy which were the box office hits of the early post-war years in Germany. The films are very entertaining historical documents which kept their charme thanks to their brilliant dialogues and the performances of Curt Goetz and Valerie von Martens. The original films were restored from the best surviving elements and complemented by luxurous and rare bonus material.

German silent cinema from Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari to the coming of the talkies is one of the most celebrated eras in film history. But the corpus of Weimar cinema, as generally viewed, consists only some "classic" directors and masterpieces which suit Kracauer's psycho-sociological perspective, and Eisner's essentially Romantic view of German art history. This collection presents newly rediscovered and meticulously restored films of less known German filmmakers such as Robert Reinert, Richard Oswald, Curt Goetz, Hanns Walter Kornblum, Fritz Freisler, Zoltan Korda, Hugo Rütters and Ella Bergmann-Michel. All films are meticulously restored from the best surviving material. Information about the films and the filmmakers are documented in the booklets, ROM features and film essays. Seven DVD's for a special price.