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James Jeffrey Paul
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Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 9:54 pm:

Just wanted to let you know that a new pristine edition of Paul Leni's 1924 silent German Expressionist film, WAXWORKS, is now available from Kino Video on DVD.

As some of you doubtless know, it concerns a poet (Wilhelm Dieterle, the future Hollywood director) who is asked to write stories about three figures in a wax museum's Chamber of Horrors: Haroun Al-Rashid (Emil Jannings of THE BLUE ANGEL and THE LAST LAUGH), Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and CASABLANCA), and Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss, also of CALIGARI). The Ripper sequence is Expressionist filmmaking at its most "mind-blowing."

Its supplemental features include a short film made by Leni in 1926, REBUS FILM 1.

I got it in a four-DVD set of other Expressionist films: CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, and THE GOLEM.

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