John Huston [30/12/2007] (Director)

[Bresson]

alguien a visto LET THERE BE LIGHT ? es el 3. documental hecho en la epoca de la guerra de Huston. Prohibido y luego solo mostrado en los 80. SEgun se dice es una obra clave en Huston. Prefigura la trama de Key largo..entre otras cosas

[Foratul]

Yo nunca lo vi pero está editado en DVD ...
Aprovecho y pego una reseña del New York Times que tenía por aqui guardada (en inglés)

'LET THERE BE LIGHT,' JOHN HUSTON VS. THE ARMY

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By VINCENT CANBY
Published: January 16, 1981

FOR more than 30 years, the United States Army has been suppressing public showings of ''Let There Be Light,'' one of the documentaries made for the Army Signal Corps by John Huston toward the end of World War II. That's not to say the film has gone unheralded. The late James Agee wrote about it with enthusiasm in Time and The Nation in 1947 and 1948. Though the picture is now, at long last, opening a limited run today at the Thalia, the Army - which didn't supply this print - apparently continues to be alarmed. At this late date, it's difficult to see what the fuss is about.

''Let There Be Light'' is a good, slickly made documentary about the treatment of psychoneurotic combat veterans at Mason General Hospital on Long Island. The treatment involved the thenrevolutionary use of truth drugs and hypnosis and, though the movie tells us more than once that the cures we see will have to be supported by long, intensive psychiatric care, the impression given and even encouraged by the film is of a series of miraculous cures.

With its voice-over narration (provided by Walter Huston), its use of wipes and dissolves and its full-orchestra soundtrack music, ''Let There Be Light'' is an amazingly elegant movie, far different from the kind of documentaries we're now used to and pioneered by such post-World War II film makers as Morris Engel, Robert Drew, D.A. Pennebaker, Richard Leacock and Albert and David Maysles.

Its studied look may have the effect of softening the movie's impact on today's audiences, who've grown up seeing riots, wars and assassinations live-and-in-color on their home television screens.

Yet it's not difficult to understand the force of the film. Among the patients we see from their arrival at Mason General through their treatments, cures and releases are men suffering from amnesia, hysterical paralysis, stuttering and acute melancholia.

In the late 40's, the Army seemed to feel that the film would scare off potential recruits. In his recently published autobiography, ''An Open Book,'' Mr. Huston reports the Army justified its censorship on the grounds that a public showing of the film would invade the privacy of the soldiers. He also reports, in passing, that he photographed some patients being given shock treatment, though there are no such scenes in the print being shown at the Thalia.

Also on the Thalia bill is ''Independence Day,'' an independent feature about black workers in Los Angeles, which was reviewed in The New York Times on Nov. 10, 1976, when it opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Unheralded Study

LET THERE BE LIGHT, directed by John Huston; written by Mr. Huston and Charles Kaufman; produced by the Army Signal Corps. Running time: 60 minutes. This film is not rated.

INDEPENDENCE DAY, directed and produced by Bobby Roth; director of photography, Elliot Davis, film editor, John Carnochan. At the Thalia, West 95th Street at Broadway. Running time: 87 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: Mel Rosier, Gammy Burdett, Michelle Davison and Henry Gayle Sanders. At the Thalia, West 95th Street at Broadway.

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Me compré la Jungla de Asfalto, no está mal el DVD, aunque el tema luminoso/definicion parece algo irritante, perdedor frente a Z1 vista la Comparativa xandre31 en mundodvd (jpgs vs vlcs pngs de Takeshi_Shimura... yo solo lo vi por encima en la tele , le sacaré unas pngs del VDM cuando vuelva a mi casa)

[bluegardenia]

Los documentales de Huston en el periodo de la 2ªGM, Let there be light, San Pietro y creo recordar también La Carretera de Stiltwood o algo así los pasaron por un canal temático satélite de TVE hace años, los pillé y son estupendos.
Pues nada, venía para eso, para tirarme el pegote, nada más

[Jacob]

El angloparlante y el niño "yo ya la tengo grabada en un VHS", vaya par de capullos.

¡¡Ofrecimiento serie B, YA!!

[Bresson]

magnifico!! me apunto a l vhs rip!!! yujuuuuuuuuuuu

[Foratul]

Aditivos

- A Través del Pacífico (John Huston, 1942) SATRip Español

- El Ultimo de la Lista (John Huston, 1963) SATRip Español

- Nuevo rip y subtítulos españoles de
Fat City (John Huston, 1972) DVDRip VOSE + Audio Español

[Foratul]

Añadidos

- La Noche de la Iguana (1964) DVDRip Dual ¡sin capturas de Ava Gardner!
- We Were Strangers (1944) DVDRip VOSE
- The Mackintosh Man (1973) DVDRip VOSE
- Reflejos en un Ojo Dorado (1967) DVDRip VOSE + Audio Español
- Across the Pacific (1942) DVDRip Dual
- La Jungla de Asfalto (1950) DVDRip Dual
- Como Ella Sola (1942) SatRip VO + Audio Español

[Foratul]

Añadiendas

Annie (1982) DVDRip Dual
Documental John Huston: The Man, The Movies, The Maverick (1989) del que no sé si quedarán emule fuentes, yo lo robé de KG
edit : Se me había pasado El Tesoro de Sierra Madre Español + Audio Ingles personalmente no simpatizo yo mucho con lo de mezclar versiones duales con x + audio en los hilos de clásicos, que ya bastante poco protagonismo vienen teniendo (quedan clandestinos , hay que asteriscarlos)...

La imaginería de iespana ha muerto (existe pero no carga a no ser que le des manualmente), así que mientras resucita , emigro o sigo en la molicie estará la filmo algo más cochambrosa de lo habitual...

A ver si editando el .amc con algún editor de texto y un simple "reemplazar con" hay éxito, porque hay mucha imagen repe e ir ficha a ficha con la manita o vía html es un coñazo

y tal

[dooddle]

Nuevo ripeo de Los que no perdonan aquí.

[Forrest Gump]

Ésta la saca Criterion el mes que viene.

[Jma32]

DVDRip VOSIde Bajo el Volcán (1984)

[Foratul]

Muchas gracias, añadidos ambos, Bajo el Volcán ahora es VOSE, cortesía de Vertigo

alguien a visto LET THERE BE LIGHT ? es el 3. documental hecho en la epoca de la guerra de Huston. Prohibido y luego solo mostrado en los 80. SEgun se dice es una obra clave en Huston. Prefigura la trama de Key largo..entre otras cosas

La estoy compartiendo en Let There Be Light (John Huston, 1946) TVRip VO

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Leí por los foros de Criterion que para 2008 Wise Blood

[roisiano]

Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956) DVDRip VOSE

[m0ntaraz]

Nuevo ripeo: In this our life (John Huston, 1942) DVDRip VOSI.

Salud.

[Shadow10]

Nuevo Dual con subtítulos en inglés

La carta del Kremlin (J. Huston, 1970) SATRip Dual + SI.


Saludos.

[marlowe62]

The African Queen (John Huston, 1951) BDRip VO
Freud (John Huston, 1962) DVDRip Dual SE
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Nueva versión:
The Night of the Iguana (John Huston, 1964) DVDRip VOSE+AE