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Article: The mask
- Article from:
- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- January 23, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Village Voice Jan 23, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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If the original 1925 film of The Phantom of the Opera isn't the best bad movie ever made, it may be the most reverberant--endlessly imitated and packed with haunting visual conceits that eclipse the unintentional comedy of its melodramatic style. The most stunning image, of course, is the phantom himself, a movie icon as durable as Chaplin's tramp or Garbo's stare or Karloff's monster or Monroe's body. More than the others, he is almost completely unmoored from his movie origin, which is not often seen today. But an excellent print, the best ever produced for home video and the high spot of Kino Video's eight-volume series Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask, puts the old boy back where he belongs, ...
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