Upcoming Second Run Blu-ray Releases
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Posted August 21, 2017 03:27 PM by Webmaster
British label Second Run has confirmed that it is planning to add two new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry (1968) and Pere Portabella's Cuadecuc, Vampir (1971). The two releases are expected to arrive on the market later this year.
Silence and Cry
Synopsis: An elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó's trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect...
Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White, Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history.
Vampir Cuadecuc
Synopsis: Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella's extraordinary Cuadecuc, Vampir ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco's shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental 'making of' documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, becomes a powerful political metaphor for bloodthirsty fascism epitomised by Franco and tyrants like him, a witty allegory with Dracula as the dictator whose demise is certain.
Portabella dispenses almost entirely with dialogue for an abstract, fabulously idiosyncratic soundscape created by Catalan artist and musician Carles Santos. The effect is surreal and wondrous to behold.
Silence and Cry
Synopsis: An elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó's trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect...
Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White, Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history.
Vampir Cuadecuc
Synopsis: Made in Spain while General Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, Pere Portabella's extraordinary Cuadecuc, Vampir ostensibly follows the filming of Jess Franco's shocker El conde Dracula (Count Dracula, 1970) starring Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom and the exquisite Soledad Miranda. This experimental 'making of' documentary and investigation into the myth of the vampire, becomes a powerful political metaphor for bloodthirsty fascism epitomised by Franco and tyrants like him, a witty allegory with Dracula as the dictator whose demise is certain.
Portabella dispenses almost entirely with dialogue for an abstract, fabulously idiosyncratic soundscape created by Catalan artist and musician Carles Santos. The effect is surreal and wondrous to behold.