Flashback Collection - 8-DVD Box Set ( Retour de Flamme ) ( Flash back )

Flashback Collection - 8-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$50.99

Original Title: Retour de Flamme
Alternate Title: Flash back
Language Selections:
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Mono )
Silent ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Silent ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
1088

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 - 2004 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Serge Bromberg
Eric Lange

Written By:
Serge Bromberg
Eric Lange

Actors:
Serge BROMBERG
Eric Lange

Synopsis:

Several times a year, Serge becomes a cinema evangelist and takes to the road. Since 1992, he has presented brilliant programs to the public, accompanying the silent films on piano and providing all the films with high-energy personal introductions. He calls these unique film concerts 'Retour de flamme' (flashback). Beginning with showings at vintage music halls in Paris, at the Cannes Film Festival, the Musée d'Orsay, the Louvre and in the Tuileries Garden, he has performed them not only across France and Europe but also in many US venues and in Mexico, India, South America and heaven knows where else.

The passion for forgotten treasures. Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange, both passionate collectors of old movies, met in the fairs, flea markets and lofts they regularly visit. The first was looking for slapstick and cartoon films, the second for French early films of the origins of cinema, prior to WWI. They had different tastes, but their passion brought them together. Their friendship and the same conception of how to build a collection, 'to make old movies live and share this pleasure with the majority, made them work together within the Lobster Films company founded by Serge Bromberg in 1985. 20 years later, the Lobster collection is rich of more than 100,000 reels, making up an inestimable heritage. One must know that during the first 50 years of cinema, nobody ever thought of preserving films. Unaware of their value, our predecessors even made them disappear on purpose. Such was the case when the film company Eclair destroyed its entire stock as to offer only the latest titles in its catalogue. Moreover, the films made before the fifties were recorded on nitrate stocks, which has two major disadvantages: first it is inflammable, which explains why films of that time were called 'flame films'; secondly, it decays relentlessly. Hence searching for these early films and preserving them became - and still is - a race against time. This collecting process encouraged the two accomplices to develop an important activity of preservation, and so to take part in the revival of major cinema masterpieces (L'Atalante, The Jazz Singer, Wages of Fear, Les Enfants du Paradis, etc.). From then on Lobster Films became one of the greatest French companies in this field. The film preservation, as well as the organisation of Retour de Flamme performances since 1992 - twice a year in summer and in winter- brought the French-German cultural channel Arte to order Lobster series on American slapstick (Slapstick), silent cinema (Serial, First Comics, Album Couleur) or early cartoons (Cartoon Factory). Then the French educational channel La Cinquième gave Serge Bromberg the niche of entertaining animation with a programme called Cellulo, in 1995. To share, a credo Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange view the collection in the same way, very far from the taste for secret and stockpiling often characterising collectors. Both enjoy sharing their tastes, their pleasure and their passion for films. Lobster regularly collaborates with film archives worldwide, opening its treasure caves for them. Lobster's heritage preservation work was recognised especially when receiving the "Jean Mitry Award" at the Pordenone Festival, the equivalent of a Palme d'Or for film archives. But what Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange love above all is to share these jewels with an audience. This is why they have regularly organised Retour de Flamme for 12 years, in order to show their latest discoveries - restored, presented and accompanied on the piano by Serge Bromberg. Their motto: to favour pleasure and entertainment, rather than an archivistic approach based upon the single criterion of rarity. These shows take place In original places such as the Trianon Theatre or the Montmartre Gardens in June 2004 where each time 3,000 captivated people can share magic screenings reminding of those at the turn of the XXth Century!... Considering its increasing success and its larger and larger audience, Retour de Flamme keeps its spellbinding promise.

Retour de Flamme is a screening with live music which sets itself apart. Lobster's collector of old movies himself (Serge BROMBERG) presents the films he has discovered and restored and accompanies them on the piano. The result is astonishing: an unclassifiable, unusual show, which leaves you filled with wonder and amazed by naive or, on the contrary, incredibly modern images. Pure magic, offered by an addict to old reels who invites you to travel.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 August, 2017.