Emile Zola DVD
Added 1/11/2010
DVD came wrapped in brand new condition. Happy I found this title on Amazon as it was a gift for a family member who collects Oscar Best Picture Winners.
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the life of Emile Zola
Added 11/24/2009
This is a very old classic. It is for people that enjoy inspirational themes, and history. It was WB's first academy award winner, and it also won the film critics award. Because the modern films are so full of sensationalism, special effects, and lack of dialog, I think this film should be kept alive as an example of great works. It is a wittness as to what could be done with a hint of intelligence, and discretion.
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Vive la France!
Added 10/27/2009
If you don't know who Emile Zola is, you should! See this movie and learn! And Paul Muni never fails to deliver! A wonderful movie!
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Worlds collide!
Added 9/1/2009
William Dieterle ( who also directed the cult movie "The Devil and Daniel Webster" ) translated to the screen the life of this emblematic French writer, the great author of the Naturalism genre.
Along his life he portrayed and pictured like any other of his contemporaries, the dramatic and multiple social injustices of a society who still had not recovered from the several ethic injures of the bloody consequences of 1789.
The Dreyfus affair was for Zola, vehicle for him to demonstrate his social sensibility around this resonant event that shocked the whole civilized world by then and now.
The reckless boldness through which Dreyfus was accused in order to preserve the integrity and the status quo's high command's official institution about a visible case of internal espionage aroused a scandal that overcame all the imaginable boundaries. It was a true slap on the face of the legality corpus. The arduous defense assumed by Zola is the central nerve of this memorable film.
Paul Muni -one of my twenty greatest American actors ever- is overwhelming in this role as well as the rest of the cast. The excellent recreation of a shameful true life drama!
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"Truth is marching on and will not be stopped"
Added 6/11/2007
I was amazed at the power of this "old" movie. Made in 1937, in black and white, obviously, and acted in the over-the-top style that was in vogue in those days (pre-Actors Studio). Yet, dated though some of the aspects of the film are, the message is timeless and certainly is apt for this moment. I won't retell the story, as others here have done a good job and many readers will already know the events on which the film is based. It's certainly worth seeing and pondering how the message applies to today. Zola said, in the end, "Truth is marching on and will not be stopped." Let's all drink to that!
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Emile Zola DVD
Added 1/11/2010
DVD came wrapped in brand new condition. Happy I found this title on Amazon as it was a gift for a family member who collects Oscar Best Picture Winners.
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the life of Emile Zola
Added 11/24/2009
This is a very old classic. It is for people that enjoy inspirational themes, and history. It was WB's first academy award winner, and it also won the film critics award. Because the modern films are so full of sensationalism, special effects, and lack of dialog, I think this film should be kept alive as an example of great works. It is a wittness as to what could be done with a hint of intelligence, and discretion.
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Vive la France!
Added 10/27/2009
If you don't know who Emile Zola is, you should! See this movie and learn! And Paul Muni never fails to deliver! A wonderful movie!
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