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Don Juan as Psychopath Don Juan is in the darkness with Isabella, a noblewoman who is under the impression that he is her fiance, Duke Octavio. Don Juan is banished by the king to Lebrija as punishment for the affair with Isabella. Gregorio Marañon[22] finds Don Juan to be a feminine character because he lies, which he regards as a defense mechanism of the weak, and he brags in relating his exploits, which he does not consider to be a masculine trait. www.gordonbanks.com /gordon/pubs/donjuan.html   (5909 words)

New York State Writers Institute - Don Juan Film Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) DON JUAN was allegedly based on the long poem by Lord Byron, whose name on the screen gave the evening its last great imprimatur of importance. DON JUAN starred John Barrymore, and in the 1920s, he was high culture’s handsome, sonorous protagonist. The sound that accompanied segments of the film was recorded on disc by the New York Philharmonic, and the film’s action scenes were as fluid and suspenseful as anything the movies had seen. www.albany.edu /writers.inst/fnf99n4.html   (792 words)

The Film Tribune - The Black Pirate (1926)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) The beginning of the film, until the capture of the princess's ships, is full of action, as is expected of a Fairbanks film, so is the end from the rescue onwards, but the middle part is lengthy, and somehow lacks appeal, perhaps because it lacks the action expected from this genre. The main reason why this film is still fondly remembered today is because of its use of the two-strip Technicolor process, used in films since 1922, but generally reserved for a few important scenes. Nevertheless, Fairbanks being Fairbanks, the film is worth seeing at any rate as it is a major film in cinema history, and the original score by Mortimer Wilson, who drew his inspiration from traditional sea shanties and nautical themes, is appropriate to the story. www.filmtribune.com /blackpirate.html   (1505 words)

dOc DVD Review: Don Juan (Or, If Don Juan Were a Woman) (1973) As a film subject, the IMDB lists 57 titles pertaining to the character, and the 1926 Warner Bros. version starring John Barrymore is credited as the very first sound feature film, which used the Vitaphone to play music and sound effects. Despite her sexual appeal to the men in the film, Bardot is no longer the vixen, she is portrayed with the morals and thought patterns of a male, freed of emotional entanglements, her motives are strictly superficial. Don Juan is entertaining, but its atmosphere is much more downbeat than the comedies that showcased a lustful exuberance in the past—still a must for her fans, but more for completist reasons than its own merit. www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1840   (1452 words)

Don Juan - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Don Juan, legendary hero in many folklore traditions, originating in Spain, who is the prototype of the unrepentant libertine. Don Juan (motion picture), dramatization about the legendary lover Don Juan. Released in 1926, this early sound film stars John Barrymore as the... encarta.msn.com /Don+Juan.html   (135 words)

DVD Booty - Don Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) This part of the film is the lightest sequence, and Don Juan manages to juggle Mathurine (Penelope Cruz) and Charlotte (Adriana Gil) by promising to marry both of them. This version of the legend presents Don Juan as a middle-aged, corpulent, and repugnant individual who callously rejects and discards the women he seduces. The story presents Don Juan at the close of his promiscuous career, and his physical condition seems to be the end result of a life of self-indulgence and debauchery. www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/don-juan   (541 words)

[No title] U.S.A. DON JUAN (1926) costume romance; as both the elder DON JUAN and his daredevil son who gets involved in every kind of escapade in the court of the Borgias and finally rescues, and rides off to freedom with the beauty he loves. DON JUAN proved a milestone in film history. Two things were indicated: the end of the silent film; the definite future of the talking picture. members.lycos.co.uk /BARRYMOREMAD/photoalbum17.html   (663 words)

DVD Talk Review: Don Juan For those even partially familiar with the story of Don Juan it is a well known fact that he was worshipped by women for both his lovemaking skills as well as attractive appearance. Furthermore, Don Juan often falls in a trance-like state of self-questioning where he utters never ending monologues as pretentious and boring as his obviously lackluster appearance. Film is a medium that certainly allows plenty of interpretation and I am willing to accept that I missed part of the director's message(s). www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=16950   (787 words)

Don Juan (1926) John Barrymore is perfect in the role of Don Juan de Marana, the notorious lover of all women who made a pact with his dying father that he would never let a woman into his heart. Between dodging Lucrezia and instantly seducing an attractive young maid, Don Juan's cold heart is melted by the mere sight of the pure Adriana della Varnese, portrayed by the gorgeous Mary Astor (roughly 20 years before her famous role in "The Maltese Falcon"). Don Juan does save the girl and escape from the enemy, and the happy couple ride off into the sunset as of olden times...wait a minute, this was made during the olden times! www.aweno.com /ipods/info/6302004500/Don_Juan.html   (903 words)

Don Juan (1926)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) In 1913 Thomas A. Edison announced that all the problems of sound films were solved, and showed what he called, "the first sound film." As in the earlier efforts, 'Nursery Favorites' (1913) had a gramophone that appeared to synchronize with the film. There was one problem: the film was projected at the wrong speed, and the soundtrack was slowed down inadvertently. 'Don Juan', the first Warner Bros. feature to utilize the Vitaphone process, debuted in a gala premiere on August 6th 1926 and while it was a hit, it signaled a industry format war unrivaled until the 1980's Beta vs. VHS battle. www.imdb.com /Title?0016804   (741 words)

Sexual or Erotic Films Films of romance with heart-throb sexy lead characters may have sexual elements, but these are often secondary to the main plot goal - the search and attainment of love. This titillating short 20-second film, with a close-up of a kiss, was denounced as shocking and pornographic to early moviegoers and caused the Roman Catholic Church to call for censorship. Also, there were two films with Greta Garbo: Anna Christie (1930), and Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931) - Garbo's fourth talking picture and the first Hollywood talkie to portray a fallen woman/prostitute (or 'cooch dancer at a carnival'). www.filmsite.org /sexualfilms.html   (2556 words)

MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Don Juan In a prologue the audience is introduced to Don Juan as a child. When one of the spurned women fatally stabs Don Jose, his dying words to his son are to distrust the love of women. Barrymore seems to be playing Don Juan as an ironic hero (much in the same vein as Douglas Fairbanks would in his last sound film (The Private Life of Don Juan) -- its a witty, stylish performance. www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=1461   (348 words)

Essay.Studyarea.Com Search Results: Don Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) The myth of figures such as Carmen and the figure of Don Juan, generous bandits, brave bullfighters and oriental exoticism arose; images constructed by foreign eyes that today still...... Next Deborah Knight examined Don Juan DeMarco and, following Northrop Frye, she claimed that in this film comedy is a "serious pleasure," a comedy...... In as early a play as The Two Gentlemen of Verona are found two moral systems sharply juxtaposed: Proteus, the scapegrace aristocrat, a Don Juan type rooted in feudalism, believes himself entitled to all things and fills his life with empty, fugitive pleasures; on...... essay.studyarea.com /cgi-bin/newsearch.cgi?q=Don+Juan+&cs=&gr=off   (1424 words)

Silent Era : Info : Events : Silent Film in Seattle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things — life, disillusionment and death. Don Juan (Barrymore) settles in Rome, which was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia (Estelle Taylor) and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him, Adriana Della Varnese (Astor). www.silentera.com /info/events/seattle2006-3.html   (470 words)

The Seattle Times: Movies: Malcolm McDowell guest of Port Townsend Film Festival "Don Juan" (1926) is showing as part of Silent Movie Mondays at the Paramount. Passes are on sale for the three-day festival; specific programming has not yet been announced but will include a variety of feature films, documentaries and family-friendly outdoor movies (watched, in true PTFF fashion, on straw bales on downtown's Taylor Street), screening at several venues including the historic Rose Theater. "Don Juan," a 1926 swashbuckler starring John Barrymore and Mary Astor (watch closely for a peek at a very young Myrna Loy), is noteworthy for being the first silent film released with a prerecorded orchestral soundtrack. seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/movies/screen.html?syndication=rss   (584 words)

Amazon.com: Adventures of Don Juan (1948) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN was intended as something of a 'comeback' film for Warner Bros. resident 'bad boy', combining the heroic elements of 'ROBIN HOOD' and 'THE SEA HAWK' with Flynn's well-established (by 1948) reputation as a hell-raising womanizer. It was not an easy film to make; despite Flynn's initial attempts to be punctual and a cooperative, he eventually 'fell off the wagon', and his carousing and frequent disappearances stretched the filming out by months, forcing frequent reshooting. This was a film which, despite Errol Flynn's self-destructive lifestyle, had enough talent involved to still stand up as one of the better films of the 1940s. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301963636?v=glance   (2290 words)

Giovanni Martinelli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Widely regarded as the successor to Caruso as a dramatic tenor, Martinelli is still admired for his excellent technique, the beautiful trumpet-like ring of his instrument, and the sheer elegance of his expression. Martinelli appeared in one of the Vitaphone shorts shown on August 6, 1926 at the Warner Theater in New York City in addition to the main feature, the John Barrymore film Don Juan (see Don Juan film (1926)). Martinelli was shown in full makeup and costume singing Vesti la giubba, from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_Martinelli   (292 words)

Music and Motion Pictures Film theatres, because of their ability to pay large salaries, can attract the best musicians, where sometimes concert managements are loath to take the risk. The practical experience of singing before a film audience for a week is equivalent to months of secluded practice at home. Among those who served their apprenticeship in the film theatres are Mario Chamlee, lyric tenor, Anne Roselle, dramatic soprano, Vincente Ballester, baritone, Jeanne Gordon, contralto; also Mary Fabian of the Chicago Opera Company and Emanuel List of the Berlin Opera and La Scala, Milan. www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/1_hreis1.htm   (2489 words)

IMDb Title Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Amar y morir en Sevilla (Don Juan Tenorio) (2001) Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme... Don Juan ou L'homme de cendres (1976) (TV) www.imdb.com /Details?Don+Juan+(2001)   (323 words)

Movie Info for Don Juan on MSN Movies Historically important as the first film to carry a Vitaphone sound track (consisting of music and sound effects, but no dialogue) Don Juan is a first-rate production by any standards, and would have been just as good with or without musical accompaniment. By the time Don Juan finds out that his true love is still true, he has been tossed in prison for killing Donati in a spectacular duel. The film's highlights include the out-sized duel between Barrymore and Montagu Love, capped by Barrymore's spectacular leap from the top of a huge staircase, and the torture chamber sequences, wherein Barrymore sneaks past the Borgia guards by assuming the facial characteristics of fiendish torturer Gustav von Seyfertitz--and this without makeup. entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=142877   (359 words)

Film Sound History: 20's Another photo-electric cell could then be used to tranduce the waveform on the film into an electrical waveform during projection. In 1926, Theodore W. Case and E. Sponable demonstrated their sound-on-film developments to representatives of the Fox Film Corporation, and to William Fox himself. Don Juan was the first mainstream film that replaced the traditional use of a live orchestra or organ for the soundtrack. www.mtsu.edu /~smpte/twenties.html   (421 words)

Nick's Auditorium : ...And then there was sound. "Don Juan" was the first major release to have synchronized sound although it was only used for score and an occasional sound effect. The soundtrack was photograhically printed at the same time as the picture, making it easier and cheaper to produce. "Fantasia" was the first film to be publicly shown with multichannel sound. users.telenet.be /nicks_auditorium/en/sound.html   (483 words)

Results for 'film theatre'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) Film Fantasia was one of the first to feature stereo sound. film, which is about a coder who gets stuck inside a video game, has... film is that the earth's core is about to stop spinning, and scientists must race to the center of the planet to set... odysseus.ieee.org /ieeesearch/query.html?qt=film+theatre   (1399 words)

Vitaphone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) The first major success was the World Premiere of DON JUAN at the Warner Brothers Theatre in New York City on August 6, 1926. The result was a thunderous ovation for the new Vitaphone process and the sound film. Originally intended as a silent film with a few musical numbers, THE JAZZ SINGER became the first "talkie" when Jolson ad-libbed a few lines before each musical number. www.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/belknap/exhibit2002/vitaphone.htm   (275 words)

CULT FILM SITE: Silent Films Based on the play by Eugene O'Neill (he said it was the only film adaptaion of his work that he actually liked), this picture tells the tragic tale of a young girl who turns to prostitution after being sent away by her father. Symbolic anti-war film where the body of a submarine commander is entered by the spirit of Jesus Christ. Alfred Hitchcock's first suspense film is this turn-of-the-century thriller about a murderer whose beautiful young victims all bear his calling card. sepnet.com /rcramer/silent.htm   (4916 words)

Don Juan review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) And here is an actor who is more than just a star; for you cannot tell this reviewer that Barrymore didn't have an active hand in producing this film. "Don Juan" is a lively burlesque of "The Great Lover" of legend. Anyone taking a child to "Don Juan" is nothing but a silly. www.silentsaregolden.com /donjuanreview.html   (364 words)

Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval History in the Movies Although "medieval" and "movies" might not seem to be a good fit -- and a lot of bad films have been made -- it is perhaps worth noting that they have gone together since the earliest surviving American feature film - André Calmettes and James Keane Richard III of 1912. Mostly filmed with all characters naked, and the dialogue is all in Latin. Falconetti's intensely innocent face is the focus of the action, such as it is. Kael is correct in her assessment of the film. www.fordham.edu /halsall/medfilms.html   (9636 words)

FILM MUSIC REVIEW (From the Editor) I saw it as a teenager and still remember it as a "guilty pleasure." I wrote about first watching this film on late night TV back in the '50s and what a lasting impression the score made on me. My story was written as an 80th birthday tribute to Elmer. Yet his film music will continue to live on...and fortunately a lot of it is available on such labels as Prometheus Records and Film Score Monthly. In celebration of his 50th anniversary as a film composer, Elmer Bernstein was a guest on Turner Classic Movies cable channel during the month of May and spoke with host Robert Osborne about his film scores. hometown.aol.com /musbuff/page37.htm   (12873 words)

[No title] Years later John said that THE SEA BEAST was his favorite film. Originally John wanted MARY ASTOR to play the role of Esther, but her filming schedule did not permit it. His obvious flexing and posing seems comic today, but he is in remarkable shape for a heavy drinking 44 year old who had already suffered one physical collapse. members.lycos.co.uk /BARRYMOREMAD/photoalbum19.html   (276 words)

Don Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) For June's part, although her role was a small one, it gave her the opportunity to play in a major motion picture, and she must have felt proud to be a part of cinematic history. June played the part of Trusia, and her one set of scenes, while lasting only ten minutes, are important as they give the viewer a good example of the wily ways in which Don Juan handles his many conquests. The scene between June and Phyllis Haver, bickering back and forth as to which of them might be the favorite of the "Spanish grandee" is a delightful one, and as a whole, June's performance was quite satisfying. www.dspears.com /fio/f13.htm   (246 words)

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