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weirdlookindog · 7 months

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The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, 1921)

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terrencemalice · 6 months

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The Phantom Carriage (1921) "Körkarlen" Dir. Victor Sjöström Cinematography by Julius Jaenzon

It’s New Year’s Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.

#the phantom carriage #new years #Körkarlen #julius jaenzon #Victor Sjöström #1921 #silent film #gothic #horror #legend #swedish #golden age #Hilda Borgström #Tore Svennberg

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erstwhile-punk-guerito · 1 year

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#the phantom carriage #hilda borgström #tore svennberg #victor sjöström #1921

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byneddiedingo · 1 year

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Victor Sjöström and Tore Svennberg in The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)

Cast: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander, Lisa Lundholm, Tor Weijden, Einar Axelsson. Screenplay: Victor Sjöström, based on a novel by Selma Lagerlöf. Cinematography: Julius Jaenzon. Art direction: Alexander Bako, Axel Esbensen.

Melodrama depends on a willingness to suspend credulity in favor of a kind of emotional certainty, a feeling that the way the story ends is emotionally, if not intellectually, right. That's why I can't quarrel with the ending of The Phantom Carriage, even though I know that the supposed reformation and redemption of David Holm (Victor Sjöström) is scarcely credible in terms of real-world alcoholism and abusiveness. It feels right in the context of a ghost story. Sjöström's movie is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of silent film, notable for its lasting influence, not only on Sjöström's compatriot Ingmar Bergman, but even on a filmmaker as recent as Stanley Kubrick, who copied the harrowing scene in which David takes an ax to the door between him and his terrified wife when he filmed the "Here's Johnny!" sequence in The Shining (1980). This is also one of the few films by an actor-director in which the actor is as successful as the director. Granted, we may quibble about a few things, such as the fact that 50-year-old Hilda Borgström was a bit too old to play the mother of two small children (who never seem to age during the film). Or that the ghost story gets jettisoned in favor of the morality tale: If David wasn't really dead, then who gets to relieve Georges of his duty of driving the carriage? But this is melodrama and it's enough to say that it feels right.

#The Phantom Carriage #Victor Sjöström #Tore Svennberg

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cinemphatic · 2 years

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#The Phantom Carriage #Körkarlen #Victor Sjöström #Astrid Holm #Hilda Borgström #Lisa Lundholm #Tore Svennberg #Concordia Selander #Einar Axelsson #Emmy Albiin #film #b

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1920sitgirl · 2 years

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The Phantom Carriage (1921)

“There is an old, old carriage... It is no ordinary driver who holds the reigns, for he's in the service of a strict master named Death. For him, a single night is as long as 100 years on Earth.”

#one of the first 20s films i ever watched #the phantom carriage #1920s #1921 #20s #1920s cinema #silent film era #silent cinema #silent film #tore svennberg #I still dk how to tag gifs💀#old films

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moviemosaics · 2 years

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The Phantom Carriage

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#The Phantom Carriage #Körkarlen #Victor Sjöström #movie mosaics #Astrid Holm #Lisa Lundholm #Hilda Borgström #Tore Svennberg #Tor Weijden #Einar Axelsson

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My rating: 7/10

A winterly horror story in the best tradition, much like Dickens' A Christmas Carol - the same themes of "being scared straight by supernatural means" are present, but the whole thing is even darker, even bleaker, and actually downright scary at times, not so much because of the spooky ghost carriage but because of the depths of human suffering these characters are plunged into. This is great drama, even nearly a hundred years later.

#Körkarlen #Victor Sjöström #Hilda Borgström #Tore Svennberg

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ferretfyre · 5 years

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#the phantom carriage #film #review #victor sjöström #hilda borgström #tore svennberg #astrid holm

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bowling-with-skulls · 2 years

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💀 102 YEARS OF HORROR 💀

THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921) • dir. Victor Sjöström, starring Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, and Tore Svennberg

#horror102 #horror movies #horror film #the phantom carriage #1920s #swedish film #1921 #b&w #reaper #gothic #the phantom carriage 1921

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hjfoley · 7 years

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The Monastery of Sendomir 1920

. Imdb 7.1 The main part of the film is told in a flashback by a monk to two visiting noblemen on their way to Warsaw in the 17th century. He tells them how a mighty count named Starschensky once ruled Sendomir (Sandomierz), but after an intrigue in which his wife was unfaithful with her own cousin he had to use all his resources to build the monastery where they are now staying. At the end it is…

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#Franz Grillparzer #Movies 1920 #Richard Lund #Tora Teje #Tore Svennberg #Victor Sjostrom

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filmesinesqueciveis · 3 years

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Körkarlen é um filme mudo sueco de 1921 do gênero fantasia sombria, considerado como uma das obras centrais da história do cinema sueco. Lançado no Ano Novo de 1921, dirigido e estrelado por Victor Sjöström, ao lado de Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg e Astrid Holm. Baseado no romance homônimo da escritora sueca e ganhadora do prêmio Nobel Selma Lagerlöf.

O filme é notável por seus efeitos especiais, sua avançada (para a época) estrutura narrativa com flashbacks dentro de flashbacks, e por ter sido uma grande influência ao cineasta Ingmar Bergman.

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docrotten · 4 years

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The Phantom Carriage (1921) – Episode 85 – Decades of Horror: The Classic Era

“Though horse and carriage are always the same, the driver is not. The last soul to die each year - the one who passes over at the stroke of midnight - is destined to be Death's driver for the following year.” Sounds like a good gig except they left out the “one night is like 100 years” part. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew - Whitney Collazo, Chad Hunt, Jeff Mohr, and listener guest host Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff - as they travel to Sweden for a silent ride in The Phantom Carriage (1921).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 85 – The Phantom Carriage (1921)

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

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Director: Victor Sjöström

Writer: Victor Sjöström; Selma Lagerlöf [based on the novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Körkarlen; 1912) by the Nobel prize-winning Swedish author]

Cinematography by: Julius Jaenzon (as J. Julius)

Editorial Department: Eugen Hellman - color timer: negative cutter (as Eugén Hellmann)

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Victor Sjöström as David Holm

Hilda Borgström as Anna Holm

Tore Svennberg as Georges

Astrid Holm as Edit

Concordia Selander as Edit's Mother

Lisa Lundholm as Maria

Einar Axelsson as David's Brother

Nils Aréhn as Prison Chaplain

Tor Weijden as Gustafsson

Simon Lindstrand as David's Companion

Nils Elffors as David's Companion

John Ekman as Police Constable

Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage is a groundbreaking silent film for both its narrative structure and its multiple exposure visual effects. This episode’s Grue-Crew marveled at the depth of the character development. They’re also wowed by the effective use of up to four-layered multiple exposures. The film also incorporates social problems of the times - alcoholism and tuberculosis - that resonate with ills of the current times. Of course, the crew discusses the legendary scene that inspired the “Heeere’s Johnny” scene in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980).

The Grue-Crew universally regard The Phantom Carriage as a remarkable film. It is currently available to stream on the Criterion Channel and on physical media as a Criterion Blu-ray disk.

Chad, Whitney, and Jeff give a big Grue-Crew thank you to Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff for her insightful contributions to this episode … and for reading the book!

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. The next episode in their very flexible schedule, chosen by their next super-secret guest host, will be Onibaba (1964), a Japanese film written and directed by Kaneto Shindô, loosely based on a Shin Buddhist parable.

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

To each of you from each of us, “Thank you so much for listening!”

Check out this episode!

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moviesandmania · 7 years

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The Phantom Carriage (Sweden, 1921)

The Phantom Carriage – original title: Körkarlen – is a 1921 Swedish film directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, alongside Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg and Astrid Holm. It is based on the novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Körkarlen; 1912), by Nobel prize-winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.

The film is notable for its special effects, its advanced (for the time) narrative structure…

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shovels-and-lime-blog · 8 years

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‘The Phantom Carriage’ (1921) Directed by Victor Sjöström

Drama-Fantasy-Horror Swedish - English Intertitles Silent

The bones: After a failed attempt at viewing this film in its entirety, a second chance was well worthwhile for this slow starting masterpiece that inspired great filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick. Cinematographer Julius Jaenzon’s hand cranked, in-camera double exposures and day for night techniques are the nostalgic cinephile’s wet dream, while Matti Bye’s soundtrack makes a truly enchanting accompaniment.

The guts: Victor Sjöström both directs and stars in this, the first film adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf’s commissioned novel ‘Körkarlen’ (1912 ) or ‘Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!’ as it was later translated into English. Shot entirely in studio, the film features a moving story line filled with anger, revenge, regret and even love that defies logic and holds the attention until the very end. Provocative and touching, it’s hard to believe the story was written in order to educate the public about the dangers of consumption.

The soul: Sjöström portrays the character of David Holm with conviction. A drunkard and consumption sufferer, Holm is a loathsome creature who ungratefully mistreats those around him for his own amusement until one New Year’s eve when he is shown the error of his ways by his deceased friend, Georges (Tore Svennberg), the driver of The Phantom Carriage. Sjöström inevitability succeeds in gaining the viewer’s sympathy for Holm as he breaks down and sobbingly begs for the lives of his neglected wife and children.

In remembrance: ~Every scene containing Georges ~David Holm ripping his freshly mended jacket apart ~David Holm hacking through the door with an ax

The verdict: Rotten Tomatoes gives The Phantom Carriage a 100% fresh rating.

We give it 5 whole shovels! No need for lime.

A definite must-see!

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