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Blu-ray

Return to reason : four films by Man Ray

Author

Man Ray

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY 791.43 R439 (CEN)

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Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

Silent films, with intertitles.

Performers

Les mystères du château du dé: Georges Auric, Étienne de Beaumont, Jacques-André Boiffard, Bernard Deshoulières, Alice de Montgomery, Marie-Laure and Charles de Noailles, Eveline Orlowska, Lily Pastré, Marcel Raval, Man Ray, Henry d'Ursel.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2025]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (70 minutes) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 16 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

"The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts--Le retour à la raison, Emak Bakia, L'étoile de mer, and Les mystères du château du dé--find the visionary artist experimenting with the limitless possibilities of montage, superimposition, distortion, and even the application of objects directly onto celluloid. Set here to an ethereal score by the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan collaboration SQÜRL, these cine-poems are optical carnival rides that surprise, delight, and unsettle with each tantalizing frame."--Container.

Notes

Contains four short films originally released 1923-1929.

Special features: New 4K digital restorations of all four films, featuring a score by SQÜRL presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio ; interview with Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, who form the avant-rock band SQÜRL ; concert from 2023 featuring SQÜRL performing its semi-improvised score to Man Ray's films ; trailer.

Contents

  • Return to reason = La retour à la raison (1923) / Emak-bakia (1926) / The Starfish = L'etoile de mer (1928) / Mysteries of the Chateau du Dé = Les mystères du château du dé (1929)

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