The Purple Rose Of Cairo 1985 colour, optical sound
This is a Super 8mm colour sound feature film directed by Woody Allen. It stars Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels. It is a classic 1930's Hollywood story set around a cinema and the stars in the movie. There are some great shots of Astaire and Rogers also. The film goes from B and W to colour (muted even on first release) and is an enjoyable Woody Allen romp.
Condition: This print does have colour fade and has moved towards red/brown - see pictures. The images are actual images from this print projected by my projector. There is some light scratching, and a few splices too. It comes on three 600ft reels. Please note that it is optical sound.
From IMDB:
Allen's best film to date,
Woody's stories are often derivative, but he's forgiven that, usually, because the results are good and ultimately do deserve his signature. For PURPLE ROSE, he swipes Buster Keaton's gimmick in SHERLOCK, JR., then lets his imagination run free as he did in the best of his NEW YORKER stories. We wind up with the most fascinating and realistic meditation regarding what it is to be an audience, a viewer's relationship to art, art's relationship to reality. The triumph is amazing, because, despite the depth of the symbolism, PURPLE ROSE can also be seen as sheer entertainment; on its surface, it is still one of the most entertaining pictures Woody has ever made.
Farrow and Aiello are marvelous here; Mia, who is quite underrated, has only been as good once -- in BROADWAY DANNY ROSE. The photography is superb, influenced perhaps by Edward Hopper with generally less obvious light sources.
Splendid, splendid work.
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