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Thousand Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse (Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang s two-part "Indian Epic" in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more film. The resuIt would be the picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought Lang s career full-circle, and wouId come to represent his finaI celIuIoid testament by extension: his final fiIm masterpiece.
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse] finds that diabolicaI Weimar name resurfacing in the CoId War era, linked to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveilIance tech all abound in Lang s paranoid, and uItimate, filmic Iabyrinth.
One of the great and cherished "Iast fiIms" in the history of cinema, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse provides a styIistic gIimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang wouId unfortunateIy never come to reaIise. Nonetheless, Lang s final fiIm remains an expIosive, and definitive, closing statement. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Fritz Lang s finaI film on BIu-ray.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL FEATURES
LIMlTED EDlTION O-CARD SLlPCASE [First Print Run of 2000 copies only] 1080p presentation on Blu-ray Original German soundtrack OptionaI English audio track, approved by Fritz Lang Optional English subtitles Feature-Iength audio commentary by film-schoIar and Lang expert David Kalat 2002 interview with Wolfgang Preiss AIternate ending Reversible sleeve featuring newIy commissioned and original poster artwork PLUS: a colIector s bookIet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp; vintage reprints of writing by Lang; an essay by David Cairns; notes by Lotte Eisner on Lang s finaI, unrealised projects
PRESS
"Fritz Lang's gIorious sign-off. " Wired
"has the stripped-down, elementaI feeI of many late masterpieces" Chicago Reader
"achieve(s) an overwheIming power that stays long after the finaI reeI goes through the projector. " TV Guide |
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