The twenty lost minutes of Goryeojang!
Los Enchiladas – A film comedian Mitch Hedberg did and was never released.
Almost every movie Orson Welles tried to do
1/3 of Ozu’s career and even more of Mizoguchi’s is seemingly lost forever.
Archiving is very important.
what i wouldn’t give to see greed as von stroheim intended it….
The Shining’s destroyed ending.
Pretty much the entire career of Erich von Stroheim (I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned in the first post), considered by many to be the greatest tragedy in film history. (EDIT: Just noticed Henry Krinkle already mentioned Greed)
And Nathan already mentioned Orson Welles, but I think the lost footage of Magnificent Ambersons is worth noting in particular. In its destruction we were robbed of a second Citizen Kane (or something even more superior, I would argue).
these are semi-recent
The Krays
The Reflecting Skin
Underground
The Cement Garden
I watched The Cement Garden on DVD after borrowing it from the local library.
awesome, I gotta check out the work of von Stroheim.
As for Orsen Welles is there any shred of hope that we can one day see Maginficent Ambersons the way he intended? like when they found the lost footage of Metropolis in like Brazil or something…maybe in some vault somewhere lies a print of Welles version of Amersons..I can only wish
Tell me more about the ending to the Shining.
Murnaus “4 Devils” (1928)
I don’t think there is any Amerson’s footage left to be found. We’re much more likely, though, to see one of Welles’ other unfinished projects brough to some stage of completion. Joseph McBride’s Whatever Happened to Orson Welles? and Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Discovering Orson Welles deal with this subject in great detail, and I’d recommend them to anyone who is interested in Welles’ “lost” work.
I for one hold out hope for Magnificent Ambersons. The studio knowingly destroyed the full cuts of the film to make room in storage, but not before sending one copy to Welles in South America (He was working on a project in Brazil). So the million dollar question is: What did Welles do with his copy? People are working industriously to find out the answer and hopefully, the full version of Magnificent Ambersons. So yeah, there is a shred of hope, albeit a slim one.
fucking A, thanks Sleeping Under the Tsars, now I can look foward to that one day when they unearth in Latin America, its always in Latin America that we find the lost footage, very odd, coincidence? i Think NOT
Anyone got any info on Stop! ?
The Reflecting Skin is on DVD in Japan.
Jerry Lewis made a serious movie about a clown who helps Nazis to capture Jewish children. I believe it was called “The Day The Clown Cried”. I’d love to see that.
THE COLLEGE IS A NICE PLACE, by yasujiro Ozu around 1935 or 1936 which is supposed to be after all I read a bout including from Ozu himself (“Its a dark film”) might be the most dramatic loss in his work.
>>I for one hold out hope for Magnificent Ambersons. The studio knowingly destroyed the full cuts of the film to make room in storage, but not before sending one copy to Welles in South America (He was working on a project in Brazil). So the million dollar question is: What did Welles do with his copy?<<
I’ve often wondered that myself.
The footage Welles was shooting in South America was found and incorporated int a documentary about that project called (as the film was intended to be titled) IT’S ALL TRUE.
Possibly Welles shipped the copy of AMBERSONS back to RKO along with that footage.
But if the IT’S ALL TRUE footage was not junked to make room …
Murnau’s Der Knabe in Blau (1919) The Blue Boy.
Apropos Magnificent Ambersons. I also would like to know what happened with the original material Welles made.
Is it just stored in an archive or is it definitely destroyed?
I am rather pessimistic that the second possibility is the case.
the full-fledged version of Bezhin Meadow dammit!
Roman Polanski’s dignity lost in Jack Nicholson’s mansion.
Hitchcock’s 2nd film as director, ‘The Mountain Eagle’ (dismissed by Hitch as awful and he was glad it was lost but he was often his most severest critic), and his preferred version of ‘The Paradine Case’ (as opposed to the pitiful empty shell foisted on him by Selznick). Both films surely lost forever but one can dream…
XEW XEW N’Gaido Ba, 1984
My Moby Dick. I’ve scoured long and hard, but cannot find this film.
whats Xew Xew N’Gaido Ba about more info please!
The Hitchcock 2nd film Mountain Eagle and The Paradine Case have just been added to my list of relics.
Joshua – “The Day the Clown Cried” is the stuff of legend in Hollywood.
According to an article in the old “Spy” magazine, the thing had severe financial problems and there was a falling out between Lewis and the writers of the movie. Lewis took the piece in a very different direction than they intended and Lewis wound up paying for finishing the shoot. The writers envisioned it as a dramatic story of the redemption of a selfish lout. Lewis tried to turn it into a Chaplin movie.
Since then, the film has been in legal limbo, with the writers refusing to let it be released. Lewis has a rough cut of the movie that he’s shown a few people. Harry Shearer claims to have seen it and thought it was the most appalling film he’d ever seen. He compared it to seeing a painting on black velvet of Auschwitz – something completely wrong, artistically, produced by someone with the most sincere feeling.
If you really want to “experience” what we have of “The Day the Clown Cried” check this fansite.
And, yes, I’d love to see this movie. It’s probably ten times worse than Howard Hughes’s “The Conqueror”, which cast John Wayne as Gengis Khan.
@Rudy – “A long and metaphysical conversation between the obscure senegalese filmmaker Djemba Djemba and one of his favourite actors, Abdoulaye Diop.” That’s the synopsis for the film. Here’s the IMDB page, and it’s nowhere to be found. It’s ever elusive and I hate it!
Rudy
I started a fourm on a lost film called Stop! made in 1970 but It has been shelfed since and hasnt been released ever.
What are other films that are lost, shelfed, and or un accounted for, rare, not available on DVD.
James Toback did a doucmentary called The Big Bang which is only available on VHS on eBAY
Love and Money is like unavailable
Exposed is like only avaiable on some foregin dvd, HOWEVER Showtime was playing it a few months back? Laserdisc?
So lets discuss some lost films!