DVD : Faust
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305557142
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305557144
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 51937
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 1995
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Jan Svankmajer's long awaited follow up to his acclaimed "Alice" is an equally astounding version of the myth of Dr. Faustus. Merging live action with stop motion and claymation, Svankmajer has created an unsettling universe presided over by diabolic life size marionettes and haunted by skulking human messengers from hell.
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Hello again from this particular aisle of the abstract retail market.
Along with the Jiri Barta collection, the recommendation of Jan Svankmajer's Faust comes as no surprise because, well, I own and review a lot of animation and happen to already have Lunacy, Alice, and the Ossuary and Other Tales disc of Svankmajer's own oeuvre.
Svankmajer is a visually and poetically crafty person with a real eye towards creating splintered, abstract realities. His stories in many cases are relatively beside the point, which is why he turns to people like Lewis Carroll, de Sade and Poe, and Goethe and Marlowe who already fit his sensibilities so that he can create environments that can best be described as organically petrified and solidly splintered. That said, I'm not so sure "Faust" is the greatest place to start out for beginning viewers: a fair bit of the imagery, especially of food consumed, clay babies, and even the style of puppetry refer to many of his earlier works and read, to me, as a sort of shorthand to his typical symbolic and narrative concerns. Beginning viewers are recommended to check out at least "Alice" and hopefully a handful of his short films before taking on "Faust", which takes its time building its world under Svankmajer's jurisdiction before getting to the root of the story about halfway in.
For fans of Svankmajer, however, it might as well be top priority. The movie is at once hilarious and disturbing, witty and mesmerizing, ... Read More
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I purchased this title on a bit of a whim, and after viewing it for the first time I put it on my shelf thinking I would never watch it again. Faust sat on my shelf for about a year. After a year of new experiences and enlightnments I was again ready for faust after a long ensightful nite with my mushy friends. I was up at 6am and wanted to watch a flick and bam there was faust looking me in the face, how could i deny it. During this second viewing I got it and Faust has become my go to movie. This movie is so deep and can be interpereted in a multitude of ways depending on what type of mood you are in while viewing. I find that this movie gets better the more times you watch it, so keep this in mind when purchasing. Again for the record I watched it the first time and did not like it, one year later it is my favorite movie, aint life strangly beautiful. Long live Dr. Faust
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I believe that a dubbed soundtrack in such a high level movie resembles something like a slap in the face of the viewer. What happenned to the original soundtrack with the beautiful czech language melody?
I hope next release won't underestimate our capabilities and sense of aesthetics...
The movie really deserves five stars. The three ones were given thanks to the awful and unwilling distributor's work.
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A flyer passed out by some innocuous stranger on the street containing a roadmap to a location circled in red, an egg unexpectedly found hidden in the middle of a loaf of bread followed by sudden darkness and a fowl wind when cracked open. Are these events sure signs of the calling of the "Infernal One", or nothing more than random occurrences adding a little unexpected disruption in an otherwise dull, mundane afternoon?
So begins Faust's journey into darkness, his encounter with Mephistopheles and his deal with the Devil. I guess this is the painful lesson mankind is doomed to learn over and over again, is it better to blindly embrace the Church and all its inherent ambiquity, or seek to understand the mysteries of the universe by whatever means at our disposal? One thing is certain, "Knowledge gained is far from bliss."
`Faust; released in `95 is a immensely original and highly inventive re-telling of the demonic tale that has long captured the European consciousness. Svankmajer's incorporation of puppetry and clay model animation works well overall, especially the puppet sequences in the theatre during the evocation sequence, but eventually becomes a little redundant and tiring towards the end. Definitely for a select audience, especially appealing for the magickcally inclined.
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i love movies and have more than 700 titles in my personal collection. i say this not so you'll know how cool i am, but so that when i say this is in my top 5 of all time, you'll know it means something. i still get something new every time. svankmajer isn't well known in the states, but has influenced filmmakers from darren aronofsky to tim burton. i think this is likely his magnum opus. many short filmmakers seem to have difficulty substantiating feature length films, but not old Jan. the film is laden with bizarre motifs and repeated imagery and symbolism galore and in its surreal blend of puppetry, live-action, and stop-motion, your conscious, analytical mind begins to shut down until you understand perfectly how someone could trip over cardboard water and drown. that's when svankmajer has you and he can show you anything. it's about as close as you'll ever find to a waking dream, straight from his warped subconscious to yours. i hope for your sake you watch it at least once before you die.
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starring: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal, Jirí Suchý
directed by: Jan Svankmajer
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305557142
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305557144
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 02, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 51937
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 07, 1995
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