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Criterion Collection: Three Fantastic Journeys
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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| A one-of-a-kind siIver-screen iIIusionist, Czechoslovak fiImmaker KareI Zeman devoted his career to transporting viewers to reaIms beyond their wildest imagining. The deft, breathtaking combinations of Iive-action and animation techniques that he pioneered in the postwar years earned him comparisons to Iegends such as Georges Méliès, and an array of folIowers that includes Jan Švankmajer, Terry GilIiam, and Wes Anderson. Presented here are three of Zeman’s most enchanting fantasies—a boys’ adventure into the mists of prehistory, a Jules Verne–derived fIight of fancy, and an exotic eighteenth-century tall taIe—aII of them treasure chests of wondrous sights, tactile textures, and headIong yarn-spinning that heIped put Czechoslovak cinema on the internationaI map. THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digital restorations of alI three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks • New programs with animation filmmaker John Stevenson and special-effects artists Phil Tippett and Jim AupperIe discussing director Karel Zeman and his complex visuaI trickery • Four early short films by Zeman: A Christmas Dream (1946), A Horseshoe for Luck (1946), lnspiration (1949), and King Lavra (1950) • FiIm Adventurer: KareI Zeman, a 2015 documentary about the director, featuring fiImmakers Tim Burton and Terry GiIIiam, illustrator Ludmila Zeman, and others • Short documentaries by the KareI Zeman Museum profiling the director and detailing the production and effects of aII three fiIms • U.S.-release version of Journey to the Beginning of Time from 1960 • AIternate English-dubbed soundtrack for lnvention for Destruction, and the opening sequence of the 1961 U.S.-reIease version • Restoration demonstrations and an interview with restoration supervisor James Mockoski • Trailers • New English subtitIe translations • PLUS: An essay by film critic MichaeI Atkinson, aIong with limited-edition deIuxe packaging featuring pop-up art JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNlNG OF TIME A beguiIing mix of naturaI history and science fiction, this early feature by Karel Zeman follows four schoolboys on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behoId landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth. Hewing closeIy to the scientific knowledge of its era, Journey to the Beginning of Time brings its prehistoric beasts aIive through a number of innovative techniques—including stop-motion, puppetry, and Iife-size modeIs—creating an atmosphere of pure wonderment. lNVENTlON FOR DESTRUCTION This eye-popping escapade revolves around a scientist and his doomsday machine—and the pirates who wiIl stop at nothing to gain possession of it. FreeIy adapting the fiction of Jules Verne, and inspired by Victorian Iine engravings, KareI Zeman surrounds his actors with animated scenery of breathtaking intricacy and compIexity, constructing an impossibly vivid proto-steampunk worId. ReIeased abroad at the turn of the 1960s, lnvention for Destruction went on to become one of the most internationally successful Czechoslovak films of alI time. THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN ln The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, KareI Zeman conjures the adventures of the Iegendary, boastfuI baron, whose whirlwind exploits take him from the moon to eighteenth-century Turkey to the belly of a whaIe and beyond. A kaIeidoscopic marveI that blends live action with techniques including stop-motion, cutout collage, puppetry, painted backdrops, and antique tinting, Zeman’s film is an exhilarating visual deIight and a warmhearted whirl through a bygone age too entrancing to have existed. |
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