THE LOST WORLD (1925)
restored silent film with live music (Mauro Colombis), 105 minutes.
Tickets: $30/$25
The film can be described as a silent version of Jurassic Park, with the fine qualities of a Conan Doyle novel of prehistoric animals surviving into our day on a remote and isolated plateau in an unexplored Amazon jungle. There is romance and the inevitable lover’s triangle, some humour, thrills and suspense, as well as a careful and delicate selection of authentic wildlife footage, as if to counterbalance the unreal prehistoric creations.
Although the stop motion special effects to create realistic movements of a large range of prehistoric animals is very impressive and advanced for the year 1925, the human characters and their emotions are also given ample attention. Fine performances by the leading stars combine with the stop motion creations of legendary Willis O’Brien to establish a popular genre and set the standard of this kind of action-adventure which has not lost any of its appeal over almost ten decades.
Tickets: $30/$25
The film can be described as a silent version of Jurassic Park, with the fine qualities of a Conan Doyle novel of prehistoric animals surviving into our day on a remote and isolated plateau in an unexplored Amazon jungle. There is romance and the inevitable lover’s triangle, some humour, thrills and suspense, as well as a careful and delicate selection of authentic wildlife footage, as if to counterbalance the unreal prehistoric creations.
Although the stop motion special effects to create realistic movements of a large range of prehistoric animals is very impressive and advanced for the year 1925, the human characters and their emotions are also given ample attention. Fine performances by the leading stars combine with the stop motion creations of legendary Willis O’Brien to establish a popular genre and set the standard of this kind of action-adventure which has not lost any of its appeal over almost ten decades.
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Metcalfe Auditorium, Macquarie Street
Entrance is via rear of the cafe
Sydney NSW 2000
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STATE LIBRARY NSW - 29 January 2023 - The Lost World (1925)
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