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World on a Wire (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Purchase Date: February 2012

Purchase Price: $39.95

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder had only been making feature films for four years when he tackled the enormous miniseries version of World on a Wire. Filmed in two parts totaling over three and a half hours, World on a Wire was the tragic filmmaker’s only sojourn into science fiction. Seen now almost forty years after its original broadcast, viewers will be quick to see elements of Blade Runner and The Matrix among other science fiction classics, but World on a Wire got there first. While the production may drag in spots and might have been cut a bit for a three hour theatrical release (the film was reissued to theaters in 2010 at its full length), what’s here in the new Criterion release is the full program, a thoughtful, nerve-jangling exposé on the tentative and possibly unnatural state of reality.

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