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Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project (Touki Bouki / Redes / A River Called Titas / Dry Summer / Trances / The Housemaid) (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray + DVD]
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Genre | Drama |
Format | Color, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Blu-ray, Widescreen, NTSC |
Contributor | Metin Erksan, Ahmed El Maanouni, Fred Zinnemann, Emilo Gomez Muriel, Djibril Diop Mambety, Ritwik Ghatak, Various See more |
Language | Korean, Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Bengali |
Runtime | 9 hours and 50 minutes |
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Six rarely seen movies from around the globe, preserved and restored by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions generally ill equipped to preserve their own cinema history.
This collector’s set brings together six superb films from countries around the globe, including Senegal (Touki bouki), Mexico (Redes), India and Bangladesh (A River Called Titas), Turkey (Dry Summer), Morocco (Trances), and South Korea (The Housemaid). Each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders on-screen.
Special Features
- New digital restorations of all six films
- New introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
- New interview programs featuring the filmmakers
- New visual essay on Redes by filmmaker and critic Kent Jones
- New program on Trances featuring interviews with director Ahmed El Maânouni and Scorsese
Product Description
Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. The mission of the WCP is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This collector’s set brings together six superb films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India (A River Called Titas), Mexico (Redes), Morocco (Trances), Senegal (Touki bouki), South Korea (The Housemaid), and Turkey (Dry Summer); each is a cinematic revelation, depicting a culture not often seen by outsiders.
TOUKI BOUKI With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambéty paints a vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. In this French New Wave–influenced fantasy-drama, two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of Europe, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical. Marked by dazzling imagery and music, the alternately manic and meditative Touki bouki is widely admired as one of the most important African films ever made. 1973
- 89 minutes
- Color
- Monaural
- In Wolof with English subtitles
- 1.37:1 aspect ratio
REDES Early in his career, the Austrian-born, future Oscar winner Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity) codirected with Emilio Gómez Muriel the politically and emotionally searing Redes. In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker’s terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers. A singular coming together of stunning talents, Redes, commissioned by a progressive Mexican government, was gorgeously shot and cowritten by the legendary photographer Paul Strand. 1936
- 59 minutes
- Black & White
- Monaural
- In Spanish with English subtitles
- 1.33:1 aspect ratio
A RIVER CALLED TITAS The Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak’s stunningly beautiful, elegiac saga concerns the tumultuous lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of the Titas River in pre-Partition East Bengal. Focusing on the tragic intertwining fates of a series of fascinating characters, in particular the indomitable widow Basanti, Ghatak tells the poignant story of an entire community’s vanishing way of life. Made soon after Bangladesh became an independent nation, the elliptical, stylized, painterly A River Called Titas is a grand epic from a director who has had a devoted following for decades. 1973
- 156 minutes
- Black & White
- Monaural
- In Bengali with English subtitles
- 1.37:1 aspect ratio
DRY SUMMER Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama concerns the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to nourish his neighbors’ crops. Alongside this tale of soul-devouring competition is one of overheated desire, as a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride, resulting in a Cain and Abel–like struggle. A benchmark of Turkish cinema, this is a visceral, innovatively shot and vibrantly acted depiction of the horrors of greed. 1964
- 90 minutes
- Black & White
- Monaural
- In Turkish with English subtitles
- 1.33:1 aspect ratio
TRANCES The beloved Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane is the dynamic subject of this captivating musical documentary. Storytellers through song, some with a background in political theater, the band’s members became an international sensation (Western rock critics have often referred to them as “the Rolling Stones of North Africa”), thanks to their political lyrics and sublime, fully acoustic sound, which draws on the Moroccan trance music tradition. Both a concert movie and a free-form audiovisual experiment, Ahmed El Maânouni’s Trances is cinematic poetry. 1981
- 88 minutes
- Color
- Monaural
- In Arabic with English subtitles
- 1.66:1 aspect ratio
THE HOUSEMAID A torrent of intimate obsession, revenge, and betrayal is unleashed under one roof in this venomous melodrama from South Korean master Kim Ki-young. Immensely popular in its home country when it was released, The Housemaid is the thrilling, at times jaw-dropping story of the devastating effect an unstable housemaid has on the domestic cocoon of a bourgeois, morally dubious music teacher, his devoted wife, and their precocious young children. Grim and taut yet perched on the border of the absurd, Kim’s film is an engrossing tale of class warfare and familial disintegration that has been hugely influential on the new generation of South Korean directors. 1960
- 108 minutes
- Black & White
- Monaural
- In Korean with English subtitles
- 1.66:1 aspect ratio
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.12 Pounds
- Item model number : CRRN2333BR
- Director : Djibril Diop Mambety, Fred Zinnemann, Emilo Gomez Muriel, Ritwik Ghatak, Metin Erksan
- Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Blu-ray, Widescreen, NTSC
- Run time : 9 hours and 50 minutes
- Release date : December 10, 2013
- Actors : Various
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B00F98FNNM
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 9
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,501 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,675 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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thank Martin for good Movies
and if you hate the DVDs so much, sell them, give it to a friend that has no bluray player... doh.
I am purchasing this box set in hopes that Criterion will release a further set(s) of these World Cinema wonders. I checked out the WCP website and notice a variety of very interesting titles that have been restored, if not yet released, in high definition format. Among these is the Sergei Parajanov masterpiece 'The Color of Pomegranates', and the outstanding 'Kalpana' from India, 1948.
DRY SUMMER Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama concerns the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to nourish his neighbors’ crops. Alongside this tale of soul-devouring competition is one of overheated desire, as a love triangle develops between the farmer, his more decent brother, and the beautiful villager the latter takes as his bride, resulting in a Cain and Abel–like struggle. A benchmark of Turkish cinema, this is a visceral, innovatively shot and vibrantly acted depiction of the horrors of greed. 1964
Only half of them appear to have be made by people acquainted with linear story telling. The best of these, and of the whole sad lot, was "Dry Summer," a hackneyed tale of landholders fighting over water rights.
"World Cinema" is code for Third World. Four of these movies are about peasants. Of the other two, one is a documentary of a band of poor musicians who play to crowds of young, violent Arab men ("Trances"). The other is a lurid morality tale played out in middle class Korean society ("The Housemaid").
Unfortunately, Mr. Scorsese's liberal Hollywood politics seep through in his choices. There is some Marxism ("Redes") and some anti-Americanism ("Touki Bouki"). Too bad, thought he was above that.
There will be no shortage of snobs to rave about these "masterpieces," and lickspittles to praise Mr. Scorsese for giving them to us. I, myself, owe the gentleman a debt of gratitude for championing the restoration of "El Cid." He has had some magnificent successes, but this is not one of them.
This set comes with short intros for each movie from Martin Scorsese, special features on each film and a 64 page booklet with informative essays about each movie.