Burden of Dreams 4K (1982) UHD (Criterion Collection)

[MifuneFan]

Criterion will be releasing Les Blank's Burden of Dreams on 4K in November!

Burden of Dreams 4K Blu-ray

https://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by filmmaker Harrod Blank, director Les Blank’s son, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Alternate uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Audio commentary featuring Les Blank, editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and Fitzcarraldo director Werner Herzog
• Interview with Herzog
• Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a short film by Blank
• Deleted scenes
• Behind-the-scenes photos taken by Gosling
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film scholar Paul Arthur and a book of excerpts from Blank’s and Gosling’s production journals

Cover illustration by Richard May; design by Martin Ogolter

For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career, Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made more perilous by Herzog’s determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of indigenous Peruvians to pull a full-size, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded mission of one of cinema’s most fearless directors.

[tonylopez]

I'm hoping BFI releases a 4K for FITZCARRALDO down the road to compliment this great documentary.

[nicwood]

This will come in a DigiPack.

[Lope de Aguirre]

Really Criterion?

How about releasing Werner Herzog's films in 4K?!
Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and many more need 4K releases!

[latehong]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

Really Criterion?

How about releasing Werner Herzog's films in 4K?!
Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and many more need 4K releases!

Because Shout! Factory has them in the US.

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

Really Criterion?

How about releasing Werner Herzog's films in 4K?!
Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and many more need 4K releases!

They don’t have the rights to them.

[Matt89]

Originally Posted by tonylopez

I'm hoping BFI releases a 4K for FITZCARRALDO down the road to compliment this great documentary.

Yeah it is kinda funny to me that this is getting a UHD before Fitzcarraldo.

Will definitely be picking this up though, the making of Fitzcarraldo is absolutely bonkers.

Also features one of my fav quotes from Herzog:

"Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment."

[joshinminn]

Originally Posted by Matt89

Also features one of my fav quotes from Herzog:

"Taking a close look at what is around us, there is some sort of a harmony. It is the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. And we in comparison to the articulate vileness and baseness and obscenity of all this jungle, we in comparison to that enormous articulation, we only sound and look like badly pronounced and half-finished sentences out of a stupid suburban novel, a cheap novel. And we have to become humble in front of this overwhelming misery and overwhelming fornication, overwhelming growth, and overwhelming lack of order. Even the stars up here in the sky look like a mess. There is no harmony in the universe. We have to get acquainted to this idea that there is no harmony as we have conceived it. But when I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It is not that I hate it, I love it, I love it very much, but I love it against my better judgment."

Great quote, but you missed my favorite part of it: "The birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing, they just screech in pain…”

[Lope de Aguirre]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

They don’t have the rights to them.

Then they should acquire them!

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

Then they should acquire them!

Call up Shout and harass them to give the rights to Criterion.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

Call up Shout and harass them to give the rights to Criterion.

Shout and Scream even!

[Rizor]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

Really Criterion?

How about releasing Werner Herzog's films in 4K?!
Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde, Heart of Glass, Woyzeck, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and many more need 4K releases!

I've read that Herzog wanted to license the rights to all his films all at once to one label and have them put out a big box set using the existing transfers he'd signed off on. Janus/Criterion didn't want to do that, but Shout (and BFI) were willing to.

I just picked up the DVD from the July sale! Figured it was never on Blu-ray and surely it won't get an upgrade. Thankfully, I still have a few days left on the return window.

Interesting that they've recycled this very DVD-era cover.

[MikeK84]

“Fitzacarraldo” is a masterpiece.

[latehong]

Originally Posted by joshinminn

Great quote, but you missed my favorite part of it: "The birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing, they just screech in pain…”

Burden of Dreams - "The Birds Don't Sing, They Screech in Pain" - YouTube

"Of course, we are challenging nature itself, and it hits back, it just hits back, that's all, and that's grandiose about it and we have to... to accept that it's much stronger than we are. Kinsky always says it's full of erotic elements. I don't see it so much erotic, I see it more full of obscenity. It's just... and nature here is violent, base, I wouldn't see anything erotical here. I would see fornication, and asphyixiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and... just rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery that is all around us. The trees here are in misery and... the birds are in misery. I don't think they, they sing, they just screech in pain."

[hipsofjw]

This is a beautiful film and will look excellent in 4K. Always happy to see more 16mm in UHD.

[Unbeliever63]

Originally Posted by Rizor

I just picked up the DVD from the July sale! Figured it was never on Blu-ray and surely it won't get an upgrade.

Thank you for your service.

[rezpekt]

Originally Posted by Lope de Aguirre

Then they should acquire them!

Why don't you aquire them yourself? Have you ever thought about it? You could restore them and release them on 4K discs for everybody to see. That would be great! You are going to do it, yes? I am counting on you!

[Tatifan]

Originally Posted by rezpekt

Why don't you aquire them yourself? Have you ever thought about it? You could restore them and release them on 4K discs for everybody to see. That would be great! You are going to do it, yes? I am counting on you!

Took the words right out of my mouth… Everyone has their price

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by rezpekt

Why don't you aquire them yourself? Have you ever thought about it? You could restore them and release them on 4K discs for everybody to see. That would be great! You are going to do it, yes? I am counting on you!

Aguirre the Acquirer does have a nice ring to it.

[Marv Inc.]

I hope they remaster the deleted scenes this time around.