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The Woman in the Moon
(1929)
on

2004 Kino International edition

The Woman in the Moon (1929), black & white, 169 minutes, not rated.

Kino International, K384, UPC 7-38329-03842-7.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, 192? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo? sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $29.95.
DVD release date: 9 November 2004.
Country of origin: USA

This quality edition from Kino features a restored 169 minute version of the film that has previously been known in the U.S. largely in its truncated American version. This edition features new musical accompaniment performed by Jon C. Mirsalis. Supplemental section included.

This disc, with its improved image quality and restored length, should be the best edition of The Woman in the Moon available on home video.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.
This Region 1 NTSC DVD is also available directly from Kino International.

2008 Eureka Entertainment edition

The Woman in the Moon (1929), black & white, 163 minutes, Classification PG.

Eureka Entertainment, unknown catalog number (MoC 41), unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 PAL, one single-sided, dual-layered DVD disc, Region 2, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, German language intertitles, English language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, £19.99.
DVD release date: 21 January 2008.
Country of origin: England

This PAL edition features the new film restoration by F.W. Murnau-Stiftung, with the film presented in its near-original German-release length, with the original German intertitles and newly-translated optional English-language subtitles.

The supplementary material includes a 36-page booklet which includes a newly-revised analysis by Michael E. Grost of the film.

 
United Kingdom: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 2 PAL DVD of this edition from Amazon.co.uk.

Other silent era Fritz Lang films available on DVD home video:
Destiny (1921)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Metropolis (1927)
Die Nibelungen (1924)
The Spiders (1919-1920)
Spies (1928)

About Fritz Lang:
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)

Other German silent era films available on DVD home video:
Asphalt (1929)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Different from the Others (1919)
The Doll (1919)
Eyes of the Mummy (1918)
Faust (1926)
Das fidele Gefängnis (1917) with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Genuine (1920)
The Golem (1920)
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
The Holy Mountain (1926)
The Indian Tomb (1921)
The Joyless Street (1925)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Madame Du Barry (1919)
Michael (1924)
Nosferatu (1922)
Opus I (1921)
Othello (1922)
The Oyster Princess (1919)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
People on Sunday (1929)
Phantom (1922)
Secrets of a Soul (1926)
Sex in Chains (1928)
The Student of Prague (1913)
The Student of Prague (1926)
Sumurun [One Arabian Night] (1920)
Tartuffe (1926)
The Treasure (1923)
Warning Shadows (1923)
Waxworks (1924)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
The Wildcat (1921)

About German filmmakers:
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
The Way to Murnau (2003)

Collections and boxsets that include German silent era films:
Fritz Lang Epic Collection (1924-1929)
The F.W. Murnau Collection (1922-1931)
German Expressionism Collection (1920-1926)
German Horror Classics (1920-1924)
Lubitsch in Berlin (1919-1921)
The Masterworks of the German Horror Cinema (1920-1922)

 
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