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No abras nunca esa puerta = Never open that door / Estudios San Miguel presenta ; adaptación y diálogos de Alejandro Casona ; dirección y encuadre, Carlos Hugo Christensen.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) PN1997 .N6 2024
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- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- No abras nunca esa puerta (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Drama.
- Families.
- Good and evil--Drama.
- Good and evil.
- Revenge--Drama.
- Revenge.
- Argentina--Drama.
- Argentina.
- Genre:
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film noir.
- Anthology films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Deluxe DVD edition.
- Other Title:
- Never open that door
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, CA] : Flicker Alley, [2024]
- Language Note:
- Spanish dialogue; English subtitles; Spanish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 0; Dolby digital 2.0
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby digital 2.0
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Preserved by the Film Noir Foundation in 2013 and now beautifully restored through UCLA Film & Television Archive, Never Open That Door (No abras nunca esa puerta) is a significant example of the cross-cultural cinematic legacy shared by the United States and Argentina during the post-WWII era. Based on two short stories by American master of suspense fiction Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window, Phantom Lady, The Bride Wore Black), the film is brilliantly directed by Argentine filmmaker Carlos Hugo Christensen with extraordinary cinematography by Pablo Tabernero. Says FNF founder Eddie Muller about this recent restoration, "It is a revelation to experience the work of an all-American author, in Spanish, and rendered as well - or perhaps better - than any Hollywood adaptation of his work."
- "[W]e enter through [the film] into the lives of upper-class Argentine families facing desperate familial conflicts... The two-part film noir opens with the segment "Somebody on the Phone," featuring siblings Luisa (Renée Dumas) and Raúl Valdez (Ángel Magaña), who live closely (maybe too closely?) in their family's spacious, decadent Buenos Aires apartment. Luisa, the younger sister, faces a dire situation in which Raúl becomes entangled while trying to save her. The second segment, "Hummingbird Comes Home," centers on Rosa (Ilde Pirovano), a blind woman who awaits the return of her mysteriously vanished adult son (Roberto Escalada). When he suddenly returns, Rosa finds herself truly submerged in darkness" --UCLA Film & Television Archive website.
- Participant:
- Angel Magaña, Renée Dumas, Diana de Córdoba, Nicolás Fregues, Roberto Escalada, Norma Gimenez, Luís Otero, Ilde Pirovano.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Pablo Tabernero ; music, Julián Bautista ; editor, José Gallego.
- Notes:
- Based on short stories by Cornell Woolrich (credited as William Irish).
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1952.
- Full screen.
- "From the Film Noir Foundation ; restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive."
- Special features: Audio commentary by author and film historian Guido Segal; If I should die before I wake (1952) (Si muero antes de despertar): an exceedingly rare archival conversation scan of Carlos Hugo Christensen's third part of the film trilogy; Cornell Woolrich: fear has no borders (2024) by Steven C. Smith and writer/film historian Alan K. Rode; Preserving memory: Fernando Martín Peña on Argentine cinema (2024).
- OCLC:
- 1444260105
- Publisher Number:
- 617311688591 (set)
- FA0085 Flicker Alley
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