The Quay brothers : collected short films /
"This new Blu-ray collection of surreal short films allows to see ... work of Stephen and Timothy Quay who have been creating their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation. The collection also includes a new short film by Christopher Nolan, a long-time fan of the Quays"--Publish...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | No linguistic content |
| Language Notes: | No dialogue, incidental music; some films include fragments in Slavic language (Czech or Polish?), subtitled in English. |
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[New York] :
Zeitgeist Films,
[2015]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray edition. |
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| Summary: | "This new Blu-ray collection of surreal short films allows to see ... work of Stephen and Timothy Quay who have been creating their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation. The collection also includes a new short film by Christopher Nolan, a long-time fan of the Quays"--Publisher. |
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| Item Description: | Animated and live action. "With very few exceptions, their films have no meaningful spoken dialogue -- most have no spoken content at all, while some, such as The Comb (From the Museums of Sleep) (1990) include multilingual background gibberish that is not intended to be coherently understood. Accordingly, their films are highly reliant on their music scores, many of which have been written especially for them by the Polish composer Leszek Jankowski"--Wikipedia. Titles and credits from container and container insert. Originally produced between 1984 and 2013. Booklet (28 pages ; illustrations) with an introduction by Nolan, an updated essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and an extensive Quay Brothers Dictionary is inserted in container. Special features include Quay brothers commentaries and a short film "Quay" by Christopher Nolan (Syncopy ; 2015 : 8 min.). |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (225 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm) |
| Format: | Blu-ray disc, region A; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Production Credits: | Blu-ray producer, Adrian Curry; restoration supervisor, Simon Marbrook. |