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Criterion's Thief of Bagdad.

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2008-05-27 10:02:46 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Bagdad plays - in the newly remastered DVD from the Criterion Collection - like a timeless fantasy, a pure and naÃve expression of, as Sabu puts it in his famous curtain line, the search for 'some fun and adventure, at last!'" writes Dave Kehr in the New York Times Re-watching The Thief of Bagdad ... is not unlike rereading Treasure Island...
 
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DVD Review: The Thief of Bagdad - The Criterion Collection

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2008-06-10 00:00:00 by Jeffrey M. Anderson in Cinematical
...Bagdad (1940) is a bit like the US production of The Wizard of Oz from one year earlier. On the surface, it looks like a seamless blend of fantasy storytelling, special effects and stunning color, but underneath it was a patchwork collaboration of many hands, coming together in a combination of spit, duct tape and luck. These days, The Thief...
 
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New DVDs: Criterion's 'Thief of Bagdad'

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2008-05-30 04:12:00 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...Bagdad" makes schoolboys out of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola The two great American directors contribute a commentary to the Criterion Collection's double-disc DVD version of the 1940 fantasy classic, an "Arabian Nights"-like tale complete with a genie in the bottle Scorsese and Coppola try to stick to their knitting -- breaking...
 
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A.M.P.A.S. SCREENING OF "THIEF OF BAGDAD" IN NY DECEMBER 15

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2008-12-02 13:19:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
The Academy's Monday Nights With Oscar series continues in New York with a December 15 screening of the Douglas Fairbanks silent classic The Thief of Bagdad. The screening will be followed by a book signing by the authors of the new biography about Fairbanks. To purchase tickets visit www.oscars.org
 
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Best DVDs of 2008: The top 20

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2008-12-30 19:37:46 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...Bagdad -- This 1940 fantasy classicmakes schoolboys out of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola.The directors contributed a commentary to this double-disc version of"The Thief of Bagdad,"an "Arabian Nights"-like tale complete with a genie in the bottle.Scorsese and Coppola try to stick to their knitting during the talk, but for the most...
 
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P & P Blog-a-thon: Childhood Favourites

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2007-12-22 21:25:01 by philosopherouge in Beyond the Valley of the Cinephiles
...Bagdad and The Red Shoes that I used to watch weekly as a child, but alas I cannot find my USB cord ANYWHERE. Youll have to take my sworn word, but these tapes are older than I am, and well worn (although they still play I rewatched The Red Shoes for the first time in nearly ten years about 14 months ago, only to be won over once again by its...
 
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AFI's top 10 genre flicks: Fantasy or folly?

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2008-06-18 06:24:00 by Reel Fanatic in Reel Fanatic
...BAGDAD 1924 10 BIG 1988 I certainly can't argue with the top two spots or the inclusion of the glorious "Thief of Bagdad," but just for argument's sake (and maybe to offer some viewing ideas, I'd offer the following (admittedly much more modern) substitutions for the remaining spots 3. Pan's Labyrinth I went back and watched Guillermo del...
 
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The Mysterious Island

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2007-08-12 19:50:00 by Anna in The Crowd Roars
...Bagdad before catching this one, and the underwater shots of Mysterious Island hold up really nicely against the better remembered Douglas Fairbanks film. Why audiences would have been so uninterested in this spectacle I don't know. Surely the kids would have liked this one I found the full version of Mysterious Island after watching a...
 
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MIKLÓS RÓZSAAn Onstage Tribute

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2008-01-01 13:08:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Bagdad when the filming of the epic fantasy shifted to the Grand Canyon in 1940 due to war in Europe. The entire cast and crew left England to complete the shooting of the picture in America. Miklós Rózsa remained here after filming had concluded, settling in Hollywood and created some of the most haunting, passionate and unforgettable...
 
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