The Italian Straw Hat
(eVideo)

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Flicker Alley (Firm), Distributor
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Flicker Alley, 1927., Kanopy Streaming, 2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English

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Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally produced by Flicker Alley in 1927.
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Rene Clair’s sparkling comedy of manners is a witty, delicate, inspired satire on propriety and behavior in the bourgeois mind-set. Transposing the action of the perennial stage farce from 1851 to a summer wedding day in 1895 – the birth of cinema – Clair recalls detail, costume and design captured by the first movies. The Italian Straw Hat (Un Chapeau de paille d’Italie) triumphantly survives its 1927 journey from stage to screen; a dozen eccentric characters, superbly acted, try desperately to keep up appearances in the face of disaster, their attitudes, concerns and gestures exquisitely stylized under Clair’s deft orchestration. The sets and costumes, too, are a charming combination of the suffocating and the exact...A bridegroom is riding to his marriage when his horse eats a straw hat hanging on a branch while its owner, a married lady, enjoys a tryst behind the bush with her love, a fierce hussar. She cannot go home without her hat, so the groom interlaces his wedding with an attempt to find madam a twin chapeau, launching a series of misunderstandings and embarrassments. The Italian Straw Hat has few cinematic equals and inspired Pauline Kael to observe "One of the funniest films ever made... so expertly timed and choreographed that farce becomes ballet."..This is the only fully complete edition of The Italian Straw Hat ever available to American viewers. The film was mastered in high definition at 19 frames per second from the original 35mm negative used for the English release in 1930. As that version had been subjected to about twenty edits, all the missing pieces were restored from an original French print. Intertitles are in English, with optional subtitles of the original French text. There is a choice of two new accompaniments, one by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and the other by pianist Philip Carli, each providing a unique interpretation on this delightful film.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

(1927). The Italian Straw Hat . Flicker Alley.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

1927. The Italian Straw Hat. Flicker Alley.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

The Italian Straw Hat Flicker Alley, 1927.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

The Italian Straw Hat Flicker Alley, 1927.

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Full titleitalian straw hat
Authorflicker alley
Grouping Categorymovie
Last Update2023-09-27 09:56:57AM
Last Indexed2024-03-29 02:08:44AM

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