Cinema of Conflict: Four Films by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Blu-ray Limited Edition) (Arrow Academy) [UK]

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Sep 10, 2012
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Release date: April 20, 2020
Purchase links: Arrow Films
Price: £50.00
Notes: Arrow Films Store special pre order price until February 16th


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LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

  • Limited Edition collection (2000 copies)
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of all four films
  • Original lossless mono audio for all films
  • Optional English subtitles for all films
  • Brand new audio commentary on Camera Buff by Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Brand new audio commentary on Blind Chance by film historian Michael Brooke
  • Ghost of a Chance, a brand new visual essay on No End by Adrian Martin and Cristina Alvarez Lopez
  • Moral and Martial Anxieties, a brand new discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980s
  • Brand new introductions by scholar and critic Michał Oleszczyk to all films
  • Michał Oleszczyk looks through archive materials for each film
  • Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieska Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Slawomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grazyna Szapoloska, sound designer Michal Zarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kieślowski collaborator Irena Strazakowska
  • Three short films by Kieślowski: Talking Heads (1980), Concert of Requests (1995) and The Office (1995)
  • Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Lonzinski
  • Reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley
  • Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the films by scholars and authors Ewa Mazierska, Marek Hatlof, Dina Iordanova and Joseph G. Kickasola, and original writing by Kieślowski