Horror-Arrow-UK Dekalog and Other TV Works (Blu-ray) (Arrow Academy)

[paulboland]

Release Date: 17th October 2016
Purchase Links:
Arrow Films
Price: £49.99





SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• 4K restoration of all ten episodes, presented in their original broadcast aspect ratios
  
  
• Original Polish mono soundtrack (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays), with optional English subtitles
  
  
• Pedestrian Subway (1973, 29 mins), Kieślowski’s professional fiction debut, about a man trying to repair a failed marriage
  
  
• First Love (1974, 52 mins), a docudrama about a teenage couple coping with an unwanted pregnancy
  
  
• Personnel (1975, 67 mins), Kieślowski’s first feature-length fiction film, a partly autobiographical piece about a Warsaw theatre company
  
  
• The Calm (1976, 82 mins), one of Kieślowski’s most powerful early films, about a man rebuilding his life in mid-70s Poland after a short prison sentence
  
  
• Short Working Day (1981, 73 mins), Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order
  
  
• Krzysztof Kieślowski: Still Alive (2007), an affectionate 82-minute portrait of the director by his former student Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz, including interviews with dozens of friends and colleagues
  
  
• Collector’s booklet featuring a lengthy essay on Dekalog and Kieślowski by Father Marek Lis, plus Kieślowski’s own intensely self-critical discussion of all the films in this set and Stanley Kubrick’s famous eulogy to Kieślowski and co-writer Krzysztof Piesiewicz
  
  
• More extras in development!

 

[DarkChild]

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film5/blu-ray_reviews_69/the_decalogue_blu-ray.htm

"It's not often another production company bests Criterion in both transfer and extras but Arrow have done it here even if they did not include the extended theatrical versions of Dekalog 5 + 6 - A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love. This is still, without a doubt, the #1 Blu-ray package of the entire year, IMO. It can't be denied. Congratulations Arrow!"

 

[dan8885]

This and The Human Condition are at the very top of my to-buy list. Arrow is on a roll

 

[severo]

This and The Human Condition are at the very top of my to-buy list. Arrow is on a roll

@dan8885
better get it now, it's sold out in the arrowfilms store.
you can order it from zavvi at the moment for under 50€ with 10% discount code.

 

[dan8885]

@dan8885
better get it now, it's sold out in the arrowfilms store.
you can order it from zavvi at the moment for under 50€ with 10% discount code.

Yeah, I wondered yesterday that it's not listed at Arrow anymore. I asked them and they replied it's sold out at their store but still available at Amazon and HMV. Zavvi is not an option with their bad packaging. I thought it will last longer so I can only pick it up next month. Hope it will last till then at one of them..