Vampyr DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The first sound-film by one of the greatest of all filmmakers Vampyr offers a sensual immediacy that few if any works of cinema can claim to match Legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer as though guided in a trance through a realm akin to a waking-dream a zone positioned somewhere between reality & the supernatural Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead & the living of ghostly lore & demonology which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling & upsetting mystery At its core troubled Gisèle chaste daughter & sexual incarnation portrayed by the great cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl & inspiration for Fassbinder&s Veronika Voss) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves Allan Gray & the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate in the face of dear dying Sybille in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men in the charged & mortal act of asphyxiation eye-to-eye then with Death the supreme vampire Deemed by Alfred Hitchcock &the only film worth watching twice& Vampyr&s influence has become by now incalculable Long out of circulation in an acceptable transfer The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dreyer&s truly terrifying film in its film restored form for the first time in the UK ----SPECIAL FEATURES---- New high-definition transfer of the Martin Koerber Cineteca di Bologna film restoration in its original aspect ratio (1191) New & enhanced English subtitle translation Full-length audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns Full-length audio commentary featuring Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro talking about one of his favourite films Two deleted scenes removed by the German censor in 1932 Carl Th Dreyer (1966) a documentary by Jörgen Roos Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer&s Vampyr influences The Baron a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzberg Inspiration for the film
- Sheridan Le Fanu&s Carmilla
- as an on-disc pdf 80-page book featuring rare production stills a facsimile reproduction of the 1932 Danish film programme writing by Tom Milne (The Cinema of Carl Dreyer) Jean & Dale Drum (My Only Great Passion The Life & Films of Carl Th Dreyer) & Martin Koerber (film restorer)