Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman Visit the Criterion Collection
Posted March 22, 2018 05:07 PM by Webmaster
The folks at the Criterion Collection have sent us a brand new video showing
actor Ethan Hawke and his frend and collaborator Marc Sherman visiting their rather notorious DVD/Blu-ray closet and picking up some of their favorite films. Mr. Sherman recently contributed to the label's new release of director Volker Schlöndorff's film Baal.
Synopsis: Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels himself cast out from bourgeois society and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose with bare-bones, handheld 16 mm camera work, which gives immediacy to this savage story of rebellion. Featuring a supporting cast of Fassbinder's troupe of theater actors as well as Margarethe von Trotta, Baal demonstrates the uncompromising nature of Schlöndorff's vision and forged a path for New German Cinema.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW, RESTORED 2K DIGITAL TRANSFER, supervised by director Volker Schlöndorff, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Interviews from 1973 and 2015 with Schlöndorff
New conversation between actor Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman about the play and adaptation
New interview with actor and filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta