Re: Ποιά Ταινία Μόλις Είδατε?
οσοι δεν το έχουν δει, σε λίγους μήνες θα έχουν την ευκαιρία να απολαύσουν ενα πανέμορφο κινηματογραφικό ποιήμα σε restoration
Tην "συνάντηση" δυο ποιητών, του λόγιου ποιητή Sayat Nova και του ποιητή της εικόνας, ήχου και κίνησης Sergei Parajanov
The Color of Pomegranates
A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with images and sounds that burn into the memory. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form. This edition features the cut closest to Parajanov’s original vision, in a restoration that brings new life to one of cinema’s most enigmatic meditations on art and beauty.
- New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New audio commentary featuring critic Tony Rayns
- New video essay on the film’s symbols and references, featuring scholar James Steffen
- New interview with Steffen detailing the production of the film
- Sergei Parajanov: The Rebel, a 2003 documentary about the filmmaker, featuring him and actor Sofiko Chiaureli
- The Life of Sayat-Nova, a 1977 documentary about the Armenian poet who inspired The Color of Pomegranates
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie
Well done Criterion! (αρκει βεβαια να ειναι καλό transfer)
The Color of Pomegranates by Parajanov, in my opinion one of the best contemporary film directors, strikes with its perfection of beauty.β
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
Vartanov’s film Parajanov: The Last Spring was created under prohibitive conditions and yet exemplifies the power of art over any limitations.β
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
Paradjanov created the masterpieces Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) and The Color of Pomegranates (1969), widely regarded as some of the most important films of all time. His artworks, which have been exhibited around the world, are as significant.
Vartanov filmed the timeless documentaries The Color of Land (1969), Seasons (1975), and The Last Spring (1992). His essays, published in esteemed film and literary magazines, and his internationally exhibited artworks, are as essential.
The institute’s founder is their disciple and UCLA alum Martiros M. Vartanov.
Parajanov & Vartanov Letters
My dear friend Sergei Iosifovich [Parajanov]β¦as for me, I’m certain that you’ve come into this world to counterbalance mediocrity and swinishnessβ¦when I think of you [in prison] I don’t want to liveβ¦
MIKHAIL VARTANOV
Vartanovβ¦my brother-in-artsβ¦you posses everthing an artist needs β mind, kindness, principles, freedomβ¦ Createβ¦perhaps you’re the only friend who compels me to liveβ¦β
SERGEI PARAJANOV
With the death of Parajanov, cinema lost one of its magicians. Parajanov’s fantasy will forever fascinate and bring joy to the people of the worldβ¦β
FEDERICO FELLINI
GIULIETTA MASINA
FRANCESCO ROSI
ALBERTO MORAVIA
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
TONINO GUERRA
βVartanov’s film, Parajanov: The Last Spring, about the last days of our great Parajanov, excited and filled me with the strength to resume the way of the magnificent tale that the Maestro had taken.β
β TONINO GUERRA
βIn the temple of cinema there are images, light and reality. Sergei Paradjanov was the master of that templeβ¦β
β JEAN-LUC GODARD
ββ¦Mikhail Vartanovβ¦made a wonderful film Parajanov: The Last Springβ¦β
β MARTIN SCORSESE
βAlways with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember the films of Sergei Parajanov, which I love very much. His way of thinking, his paradoxical poeticalβ¦ ability to love the beauty and ability to be absolutely free within his own vision.β
β ANDREI TARKOVSKY
βProbably, besides the film language suggested by Griffith and Eisensteinβ¦ cinema has not discovered anything revolutionarily new until (Parajanov’s) The Color of Pomegranatesβ¦β
β MIKHAIL VARTANOV
βMy dear friend (Vartanov)β¦should you like the (screenplay) Desert, together we could make a masterpieceβ¦β
β ARTAVAZD PELESHIAN
βWe have to ensure that the work of seminal artists like Vartanov is preservedβ¦his filmsβ¦made under the harshest conditionsβ¦are crucial to the important heritage of world cinema.β
β AGNIESZKA HOLLAND
βVartanovβ¦the Eyemomanβ¦β
β WILLIAM SAROYAN
https://parajanov.com
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