Janus Films: First Look at New 4K Restorations of Four Silent Films by Man Ray
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Posted April 24, 2024 06:03 PM by Webmaster
Janus Films has provided a promotional trailer for new 4K restorations of four films directed by Man Ray between 1923 and 1929, which will premiere in select cities across the nation this May.
Also included with this announcement is an official theatrical poster.
Description: The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929 -- Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L'Étoile de mer and Les Mystères du Château du Dé -- represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism. In these films Ray began discovering the limitless possibilities of montage as well as the direct application onto celluloid of objects such as salt, pepper, pins, and thumbtacks. Juxtaposing undulating geometric patterns, a twirling fairground ride, and a female nude, among other striking images, Ray finds subconscious correspondences among seemingly incongruous materials and figures. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present Man Ray: Return to Reason, with a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack for that title as well as the three other Ray films. The band's cosmic sounds complement Ray's work by conjuring the beautiful, ineffable, haunting, and sublime.
Also included with this announcement is an official theatrical poster.
Description: The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929 -- Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L'Étoile de mer and Les Mystères du Château du Dé -- represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism. In these films Ray began discovering the limitless possibilities of montage as well as the direct application onto celluloid of objects such as salt, pepper, pins, and thumbtacks. Juxtaposing undulating geometric patterns, a twirling fairground ride, and a female nude, among other striking images, Ray finds subconscious correspondences among seemingly incongruous materials and figures. In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Le Retour à la raison, the Jim Jarmusch-Carter Logan combo Sqürl present Man Ray: Return to Reason, with a newly-recorded drone rock soundtrack for that title as well as the three other Ray films. The band's cosmic sounds complement Ray's work by conjuring the beautiful, ineffable, haunting, and sublime.