Press Release Criterion Press Release: Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) (4k UHD Combo) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Béla Tarr and codirector-editor Ágnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

FILM INFO​

• Hungary
• 2000
• 145 minutes
• Black & White
• 1.66:1
• Hungarian
• Spine #1215
  
  

  DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

  • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Béla Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Family Nest (1979), Tarr’s first feature film
  • New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
  • New English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim
    
    New cover by Polly Dedman
    
    April 16, 2024

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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https://www.amazon.com/Werckmeister...?tag=bluray-003-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1&m=

 

[titch]

Béla Tarr on Criterion! About time! And on 4K UHD! Although only the usual suspects on this forum will purchase this - but you know who you are. You probably have Satantango on your shelves, dreaming of an imminent Criterion release!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Preorder is live see post #2