Werckmeister Harmonies (Blu-Ray, #1215)

This mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by Lszl Krasznahorkai,Werckmeister Harmoniesunfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circuscomplete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Princearrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. In thirty-nine hypnotic long takes engraved in ghostly black and white, auteur Bla Tarr and codirector-editor gnes Hranitzky conjure an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Bla Tarr, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Family Nest(1979), Tarrs first feature film
• New interview with Tarr by film critic Scott Foundas
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by film programmer and critic Dennis Lim

  New cover by Polly Dedman