UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15797603
Format:
s/w
,
35mm
,
1.37:1 original aspect ratio ; 1080p AVC Blu-ray encode + progressive DVD encode
Content:
"A brutal naturalist melodrama, Metin Erksan’s masterful Dry Summer [Susuz yaz], which won the Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival, returns to the spotlight in a new restoration after decades of suppression by Turkish authorities: an arid fate for one of the most exciting films of the 1960s. Viscerally tactile, unsparing, and even on occasion outright lurid, Dry Summer has been described by filmmaker Fatih Akin as “one of the most important legacies of Turkish cinema.” During a particularly dry rural Turkish summer, a group of local workers enters into a dispute with a landowner when he decides the construction of new irrigation infrastructure must first and foremost service his own property. Wholly rapacious, the landowner foments a private war with his own kin after the brother takes a bewitching young wife. The battle between the factions plays out in stunning set-pieces: a pursuit with pistols amidst grass-stalks and dam-water before the setting sun evokes elements of Renoir (Toni), Ford (The World Moves On), Bergman (The Virgin Spring), and Shindô (Onibaba), while a scene set in a brush thicket wherein the landowner and his aggressors fight it out hatchet-and-club provides drama at least as exciting and gasp-inducing as the climax of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Dry Summer’s sweat-dappled tone and baked images of promenade and labour recall Mexicanperiod Buñuel as much as aspects of mid-’50s Italian commercial melodrama and, via the film’s backdrop of agrarian agitation and its low angles — which effect a figural relief against blazing, albeit greyish mid-contrast summer skies — post-montage Soviet agitprop. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present the World Cinema Project’s restoration of Metin Erksan’s classic on Bluray and DVD for the first time in the UK." (Covertext Eureka)
Content:
Extras: new restoration of the film in 1080p HD on the Blu-ray and a progressive encode on the DVD Exclusive new video introduction to the film by Martin Scorsese Optional English subtitles A new essay on the film by critic Phil Coldiron included in the 80-PAGE BOOK accompanying the boxset
Note:
Orig.: Türkei, 1964
In:
World cinema project : [Medienkombination], 2013, 1., (2013)
Language:
Turkish
Bookmarklink
