Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie
(Un sombrero de paja de Italia / Un cappello di paglia di Firenze /
The Italian Straw Hat / The Horse Ate the Hat)
(Francia-Alemania, 1927) [B/N, 60 / 122 (16 fps) m.].
Género: Comedia dramática.
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: René Clair.
Argumento: Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel (Labiche y Michel, vodevil).
Guión: René Clair
Fotografía: Maurice Desfassiaux, Nikolas Roudakoff
Música: Georges Delerue (1952), Benedict Mason (1983) / Jacques Ibert ("Divertissement").
Producción: Alexandre Kamenka.
Productora: Films Albatros.
Sinopsis: Cuando Ferdinard se dirige a su boda y cruza el bosque de Vincennes, el caballo de su cabriolet se come un sombrero de paja de Italia. El sombrero pertenece a una bella joven, Anaïs, que sale de entre los arbustos acompañada de Tavernier, un oficial del ejército. Tavernier exige a Ferdinard que regrese con un sombrero nuevo ya que el anterior era un regalo del celoso marido de Anaïs, Monsieur Beauperthuls. (FILMAFFINITY)
AMG Synopsis: Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel's effervescent French farce An Italian Straw Hat was gracefully adapted for the screen by director René Clair. Albert Prejean plays a well-meaning fellow who is on the way to his wedding. While en route, Prejean's horse has the bad manners to eat the expensive hat of a lovely young woman. The girl is beside herself, so Prejean gallantly offers to postpone his wedding until he can locate an identical chapeau, thereby setting in motion an endless series of comic misunderstandings. More than one historian has noted that Albert Prejean is made up to look like American two-reel comedian Charley Chase, most of whose "Imagine my embarrassment!" films were constructed pretty much along the same lines as An Italian Straw Hat.
AMG Review: A wonderful little farce, Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie is somewhat unknown to modern moviegoers, largely because silent films are so out of favor. This is a shame, as Chapeau is a delightful and charming little affair; while those not used to silent films will have to concentrate a bit harder to pick up the details of its involved plot, it's well worth the effort. Director/adaptor René Clair has done a marvelous job of capturing those details and of heaping one plot development on top of another in classic farce fashion, until the entire proceedings come tumbling down and all gets resolved. Yet Clair makes sure that the plot mechanics don't result in a mechanical film. He imbues scenes with lovely little moments, lingering a bit longer after the main actors have left a scene or capturing a delicate arch of an eyebrow that other directors might have missed. He also adds a welcome surreal touch during the sequence in which the hero is fearing that the worst has happened to his beautiful home, but is equally at home with the mundane. (As an example of the latter, the sequence in which a wife is trying to get her husband to pay attention to an undone collar is beautifully realized and quite funny.) Clair's cast is near-perfect, anchored by the sterling "little man" comic performance of Albert Prejean. An Italian Straw Hat is both sweet and amusing, a lovely combination.
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Versión Flicker Alley 2010 Restaurada DVDRip (Intertítulos en inglés) 1,40 Gb.
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Enlace:Versión Flicker Alley 2010 Restaurada DVDRip (Intertítulos en inglés) 1,40 Gb.
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Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (René Clair, 1928, DVDrip).avi 
Subtítulos (descarga directa): castellano.
Sincronizados y traducidos en base a los intertítulos en inglés de la edición Flicker Alley.
Gracias a Cirlot por su colaboración.
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En resumen, versión restaurada con intertítulos en inglés (el DVD incluye subtítulos en francés y castellano, pero no han aparecido) y dos bandas sonoras.THE ITALIAN STRAW HAT – Un Chapeau de paille d’ItalieTHE ITALIAN STRAW HAT was first released in English territories in 1930 as The Horse Ate the Hat. Albatros seems to have prepared the English version at the time of production, since the English inserts (such as Lt. Tavernier’s note) match the French ones, but a whole reel of the best scenes was hacked out prior to English distribution. This edition, produced by David Shepard, was mastered in high definition at Ascent Media in Burbank, California from the vintage 35mm English negative, with all the missing and truncated scenes restored from an original European print. The film is presented at 19 frames per second, the speed used at the French premiere as confirmed by the original printed program
105 min. / add’l shorts 21 min. / B&W / Tinted / Silent / 1:33:1 aspect ratio
Produced by David Shepard
A Note on This Edition.
This is the only fully complete edition of The Italian Straw Hat ever available to American viewers. The film was mastered in high definition at 19 frames per second from the original 35mm negative used for the English release in 1930. As that version had been subjected to about twenty edits, all the missing pieces were restored from an original French print. Intertitles are in English, with optional subtitles of the original French text.
There is a choice of two new accompaniments, one by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and the other by pianist Philip Carli, each providing a unique interpretation on this delightful film.
Bonus materials include a short film by René Clair, La Tour (The Eiffel Tower, 1928) and Ferdinand Zecca’s Noce en Goguette (Fun After The Wedding, 1907), typical of the early films that inspired Clair. Lenny Borger and Iris Barry both provide essays in an enclosed booklet with musical score notes by Rodney Sauer. The complete 1851 play Un Chapeau de paille d’ Italie by Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel, here in an English translation of 1916 as The Leghorn Hat, is included as a DVD-ROM extra. (Flicker Alley).
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Otras versiones en DXC:Un sombrero de paja de Italia (René Clair, 1927) VHSRip VOSE
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Filmografía René Clair (Director)
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Investigando la procedencia del DVDRip de Norgen de "La tour", he realizado una búsqueda en la mula para comprobar si había salido algún ripeo de la edición Flicker Alley (2010, Amazon. Y he encontrado este enlace, con una fuente completa y varias bastante avanzadas. La duración coincide (1:45:20 m. el DVD según DVDBeaver - 1:45:22 el archivo).EDITO: Enlace verificado.
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