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Release: July 17, 2012

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Product Description On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan, until he loses consciousness and his mind. Somewhere in the countryside, the driver of the cab lives with his daughter and the horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. Immaculately photographed in Tarr's renowned long takes, the Turin Horse is the final statement from a master filmmaker. Review "An auteurist triumph." --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times "Four Stars! A sumptuous masterpiece by one of the greatest moviemakers of all time." --V.A. Musetto, NY Post "A death-haunted masterpiece. Tarr s most fully achieved, challenging movie since his 1994 epic Sátántangó. --J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Release: April 16, 2024

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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. 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 Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim

Release: April 16, 2024

$7.99

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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. 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 Trailer New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews Werckmeister Harmonies (The Criterion Collection) [4K UHD]