The Fall of the House of Usher

Michael O'Regan · Post by **Michael O'Regan** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:00 pm

Is Jean Epstein's 1928 film around?
It is reckoned by Everson to be the best ever adaptation of Poe on film.

Richard M Roberts · Post by **Richard M Roberts** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:10 pm

Michael O'Regan wrote:Is Jean Epstein's 1928 film around?
It is reckoned by Everson to be the best ever adaptation of Poe on film.

Incapable of Googling today are we?

http://www.amazon.com/Fall-House-Usher- ... 320&sr=1-4" target="_blank

RICHARD M ROBERTS

telical · Post by **telical** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:13 pm

There are a couple of version's of it on YouTube also, one
dubbed with a translation of the French subtites, so it wouldn't
qualify as a true silent film in the state that it's in.

Michael O'Regan · Post by **Michael O'Regan** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:17 pm

Richard M Roberts wrote:
Michael O'Regan wrote:Is Jean Epstein's 1928 film around?
It is reckoned by Everson to be the best ever adaptation of Poe on film.

Incapable of Googling today are we?

http://www.amazon.com/Fall-House-Usher- ... 320&sr=1-4" target="_blank" target="_blank

RICHARD M ROBERTS

Well, ya see. I thought maybe asking might stimulate some discussion on the film.

On the other hand...Google this!

Murnau · Post by **Murnau** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 9:59 pm

I love Jean Epstein’s films and his La chute de la maison Usher is the best adaptation of Poe’s classic (it combines stories of Usher and The Oval Portrait) I have seen. Very atmospheric, surrealistic and visually beautiful in all its darkness and weirdness. A real classic like Murnau’s Nosferatu, don’t miss that one although Image’s dvd is about average. Epstein’s best film with Finis Terrae (1929).

Post by **silentfilm** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:40 pm

As this film is PD, there are 16mm prints floating around too.

Brooksie · Post by **Brooksie** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:45 am

The James Sibley Watson Jr version (also 1928) is also worth checking out if you're interested. As it's not a straight narrative adaptation in the traditional sense, it tends to divide people between those who find it a pointless confection and those who think it's gorgeous, but I'm firmly in the latter category.

Jack Theakston · Post by **Jack Theakston** » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:29 pm

Somewhere in my collection, I have an issue of the American Cinematographer from the period that is written by Watson. The text is pretentious clap-trap, but the images are interesting in that the show how some of the amazing in-camera effects were done in the film.

merchantord · Post by **merchantord** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:05 am

What is the quality of the transfer like on the DVD referenced above? Does anyone know?

Richard M Roberts · Post by **Richard M Roberts** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:14 pm

merchantord wrote:What is the quality of the transfer like on the DVD referenced above? Does anyone know?

The quality is excellent. That disc came from AllDAy Entertainment.

RICHARD M ROBERTS

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