8 Essential World Cinema Films Selected by Martin Scorsese
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN BLU-RAY BOX SET
Created by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project has restored dozens of masterpieces from around the world, allowing film lovers to discover often overlooked parts of the history of cinema. Bearing the faces and words of societies whose films are too rarely shown, from Central Asia to South America to Africa, these eight classics of world heritage are as many free, poetic and resolutely different proposals, to be admired for the first time in a 6 Blu-ray™ Box Set!
Available in 6 Blu-ray box set
Hard case + digipack
New 2K and 4K restorations
Original versions with French subtitles
THE 8 FILMS
BLU-RAY 1:
. THE ALVARADO REVOLTS | MEXICO (1936 – B&W – 60 min – 2K restoration)
a film by Fred Zinnemann & Emilio Gómez Muriel
. PRISONERS OF THE EARTH | ARGENTINA (1939 – B&W – 87 mins – 4K restoration)
a film by Mario Soffici
BLU-RAY 2:
. THE LAW OF THE BORDER | TURKEY (1966 – B&W – 77 min – 2K restoration)
a film by Lütfi Ö. Akad
. THE WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE | IVORY COAST (1969 – B&W – 78 min – 4K restoration)
a film by Timité Bassori
BLU-RAY 3 & 4:
EIGHT DEADLY BLOWS | FINLAND (1972 – B&W – 327 mins – 4K restoration)
a film in 4 parts by Mikko Niskanen
BLU-RAY 5:
.MUNA MOTORCYCLE | CAMEROON (1975 – B&W – 90 mins – 4K restoration)
a film by Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa
. TRANCES | MOROCCO (1981 – Colors – 89 min – 2K Restoration)
a film by Ahmed El Maanouni
BLU-RAY 6:
THE REED FLUTE | KAZAKHSTAN (1989 – Color – 100 min – 2K Restoration)
a film by Ermek Shinarbaev
SUPPLEMENTS
. INTRODUCTIONS BY MARTIN SCORSESE (HD)
. PAUL STRAND AND "THE ALVARADO REVOLTS" (21 mins)
. "TRANSES", IT'S A WHOLE STORY... (21 min)
. THE POWER OF POETRY (30 mins)
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6 BD • HIGH DEFINITION MASTERS • 1080/23.98p • AVC ENCODING
Original Version / French Version* DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 • French Subtitles
1.37 and 1.66 formats respected • Black & White and Colors • Total Length of Films: 909 mins
Released September 17, 2024
