Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project. No. 4 /
Sambizanga: "Chronicles the awakening of Angola's independence movement ... follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities--an incident that will ultimately help t...
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| Format: | Video DVD Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | Multiple languages Portuguese Kimbundu Lingala Bantu (Other) Spanish Guarani Persian French Duala Basa Hungarian Hindi |
| Language Notes: | Sambizanga: In Portuguese, Kimbundu, Lingala, Teke, and Lari with English subtitles. Prisioneros de la tierra: In Spanish and Guaraní with English subtitles. Chess of the wind: In Farsi with English subtitles. Muna moto: In French, Duala, and Basaa with English subtitles. Two girls on the street: In Hungarian with English subtitles. Kalpana: In Hindi with English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[New York] :
The Criterion Collection,
2022.
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| Edition: | Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
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| Summary: | Sambizanga: "Chronicles the awakening of Angola's independence movement ... follows a young woman as she makes her way from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city's center, looking for her husband after his arrest by the Portuguese authorities--an incident that will ultimately help to ignite a national uprising."--Container. Prisioneros de la tierra: "Desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a jungle yerba maté plantation..."--Container. Chess of the wind: "A hypnotically stylized murder mystery awash in period atmosphere, Chess of the wind plays out inside a candlelit mansion, where a web of greed, violence, and betrayal ensnares potential heirs as they vie over their matriarch's estate."--Container. Muna moto: "In a Cameroonian village, the rigid customs governing courtship and marriage mean that a betrothed couple, though deeply in love, can be torn apart by the lack of a dowry and another man's claiming of the young woman--a rupture that sets the stage for a clash between a patriarchal society and a modern generation."--Container. Two girls on the street: "Two upwardly mobile working women--one a musician in an all-female band, the other a bricklayer--join forces in their attempts to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love."--Container. Kalpana: "Unfolding as an epic film within a film, Kalpana tells the story of a dancer (the director himself) who is determined to open a cultural center and breathe new life into India's traditional artistic forms."--Container. |
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| Item Description: | Title from set box. Each film is included in both DVD and Blu-ray formats. Sambizanga based on the novel A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier by José Luandino Vieira. Prisioneros de la tierra based on characters from the short stories "Una bofetada," "Un peón," "Los destiladores de naranja," and "Los desterrados" by Horacio Quiroga. Two girls on the street: Based on a play by Tamás Emöd, Rezsö Török. Originally released as motion pictures between 1939-1976. Aspect ratio for Chess of the Wind: 1.85:1, all other films: 1.37:1 Special features: New introductions by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese ; Interviews featuring Sambizanga director Sarah Maldoror and Annouchka de Andrade, Maldoror's daught; film historians Paula Félix-Didier and Andrés Levinson (on Prisioneros de la tierra); Two girls on the street director André de Toth; and film historian Suresh Chabria and filmmaker Kumar Shahani (on Kalpana) ; The Majnoun and the wind (2022), a documentary by Gita Aslani Shahrestani featuring Chess of the wind director Mohammad Reza Aslani and others ; New program by filmmaker Mohamed Challouf featuring interviews with Muna moto director Dikongué-Pipa and film historian Férid Boughedir ; Booklet fearuting a foreward and essays on the films by critics and scholars Yasmina Price, Matthew B. Karush, Ehsan Khoshbakht, Aboubakar Sanogo, Chris Fujiwara, and Shai Heredia. |
| Physical Description: | 9 videodiscs (approximately 601 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm). |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A; mono; requires Blu-ray player. DVD, NTSC, region 1; mono. |
| Production Credits: | Sambizanga: cinematography, Claude Agostini ; editor, Georges Klotz. Prisioneros de la tierra: cinematography, Pablo Tabernero ; editors, José de Nico, Gerardo Rinaldi ; music, Lucio Demare. Chess of the wind: director of photography, Houshang Baharlou ; editor, Abbas Ganjavi ; music, Sheyda Gharachedaghi. Muna moto: cinematography, Jean-Pierre Dezalay, Jean-Luc Leon, M. Tangy ; editors, Andrée Davanture, Dominique Saint-Cyr, Jules Takam. Two girls on the street: cinematography, Károly Vass ; editor, Zoltán Kerényi ; music, Szabolcs Fényes. Kalpana: cinematography, K. Ramnoth ; editor, N.K. Gopal ; music, Vishnudas Shirali. |
| ISBN: | 9781681439723 1681439727 |