Anselm 3D Blu-ray (2023) [Region Locked]

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Anselm 3D Blu-ray

Anselm 3D Blu-ray


I hadn't heard anything about this movie and when I did a forum search, absolutely nothing came up.

Clip from Cannes-Bound ‘Anselm,’ Wim Wenders’ 3D Portrait of Artist Anselm Kiefer, Debuts

Variety has been given access to an exclusive clip from “Anselm,” the 3D documentary from the three-time Academy Award nominated director Wim Wenders. The film will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as a Special Screening.

HanWay Films is handling world sales. It will be released by Les Films du Losange in France and DCM in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In “Anselm,” Wenders creates an immersive portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors alive today. Shot in 3D and 6K-resolution, the film presents “a cinematic experience of the artist’s work which explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history, inspired by literature, poetry, philosophy, science, mythology and religion,” according to press notes.

For over two years, Wenders traced Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his current home in France, connecting the stages of his life to the essential places of his career that spans more than five decades.

Considering whether his non-fiction films like this one are “documentaries,” Wenders says: “I realize one thing: I’ve always wanted to shoot my ‘documentaries’ as if we were involved in a fiction. Inversely, in my fiction films, I always preserved the documentary aspect that each act of filming includes, no matter what’s in front of the camera. Places and people – and I include actors in that category – deserve to be seen ‘as they are’ and ‘as what they want to be,’ could be or could have been. In fact, categories are strictly there to classify and name experiences, and they therefore very often do a disservice to them.”

Wenders asks himself: “What I hope for an audience to take away from the experience of ‘Anselm’? That they leave behind categories and opinions, leave behind any preconception of what art can be or can achieve, and just take in the stunning scope of this great German romantic, poet, thinker and visionary Anselm Kiefer.”

Cinematography is by Franz Lustig, music is by Leonard Küßner, and the film is edited by Maxine Goedicke. It was produced by Karsten Brünig for Road Movies.

[WaverBoy]

I’m guessing the chances of a 3D Blu of this are…not great?

[BleedOrange11]

This is a nice surprise. After the negative reaction to Every Thing Will Be Fine, I thought maybe Wenders had given up on 3D altogether. Glad to see he's still interested.

[BleedOrange11]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

I’m guessing the chances of a 3D Blu of this are…not great?

I think there's a great possibility we get to see it, at least on a German Blu-ray 3D, in about a year. Since it's playing at Cannes, it's probably a decent film although they are biased toward French productions.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

I’m guessing the chances of a 3D Blu of this are…not great?

And the chances of an English-friendly 3D Blu are even worse than that.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

I think there's a great possibility we get to see it, at least on a German Blu-ray 3D, in about a year. Since it's playing at Cannes, it's probably a decent film although they are biased toward French productions.

Have there been any German 3D Blu-ray releases within the last year or two?

[BleedOrange11]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Have there been any German 3D Blu-ray releases within the last year or two?

Plenty. Exclusive releases for Happy Family 2, Monster Run, Monster Hunter, and Iron Mask. Dragon Rider as well, if that counts as 3D. Also one of the only countries to release Boss Baby: Family Business and Wonders of the Sea.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Plenty. Exclusive releases for Happy Family 2, Monster Run, Monster Hunter, and Iron Mask. Dragon Rider as well, if that counts as 3D. Also one of the only countries to release Boss Baby: Family Business and Wonders of the Sea.

Ah very good then.

[jchung30]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Have there been any German 3D Blu-ray releases within the last year or two?

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Plenty. Exclusive releases for Happy Family 2, Monster Run, Monster Hunter, and Iron Mask. Dragon Rider as well, if that counts as 3D. Also one of the only countries to release Boss Baby: Family Business and Wonders of the Sea.

Plenty up until June 2022. It's been nearly a year since the last 3-D release:

3-D movies from Germany/France/other European countries
Toto [2021-01-20]
Bigfoot Family [2021-02-10]
Drachenreiter [2021-03-18]
Iron Mask / Viy 2 [2021-06-03]
Boss Baby 2 [2022-01-20]
Monster-Jagd [2022-01-27]
Happy Family 2 [2022-04-07]
Hopper/Chickenhare [2022-06-22]

[WaverBoy]

Bigfoot Family and Chickenhare are Dutch releases, no?

[jchung30]

Originally Posted by WaverBoy

Bigfoot Family and Chickenhare are Dutch releases, no?

Belgian?

[BleedOrange11]

Compared to most countries, Germany has stellar support for physical media, Blu-ray 3D, and their domestic filmmakers (and Wim Wenders is one their sacred cows). The only thing they don't always support is English subtitles.

Their hasn't been a lot of new German 3D content to release lately. You could make an argument about retailing The Amazing Maurice flat, but it's another garbage-bin conversion like Dragon Rider.

[BleedOrange11]

I'm also excited that Wenders has a new cinematographer. Hopefully he likes wider interaxials than Benoit Debie.

[WaverBoy]

Originally Posted by jchung30

Belgian?

The text on the back is in both French and Dutch, so maybe Belga is a Belgian/Dutch label?

[BleedOrange11]

Belga Films is Belgian, hence the name, but they sell their product in all Benelux countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) because they are economically allied. No connection to German physical media though.

[robtadrian]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

This is a nice surprise. After the negative reaction to Every Thing Will Be Fine, I thought maybe Wenders had given up on 3D altogether. Glad to see he's still interested.

He actually made another film after ETWBF The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (2016).

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Das-s...lu-ray/173298/

[BleedOrange11]

I believe that was shot quick and cheap with the same crew shortly after the Every Thing's premiere. Didn't do much for his cause.

[the13thman]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

I believe that was shot quick and cheap with the same crew shortly after the Every Thing's premiere. Didn't do much for his cause.

The lack of English-friendly 3D Blu-ray releases didn't help either, seems like his distributors hate the language.

Every Thing Will Be Fine got forced subs and was released only in Germany and Italy while The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez didn't get any English subs and again only got a limited European release.

It's almost like they wanted nobody to see these films properly. I expect it will be the same with this one.

[BleedOrange11]

Aranjuez is barely a narrative feature and more of an experimental piece of drama. They basically went out and shot 90 minutes of two actors talking about men/women/sex/life in a pretty backyard garden in flat-ish 3D. I finally got some quality English subs to sync to it but still haven't had the urge to watch it all the way through. Not sure I ever will.

[Elsinore]

Not a huge Wim Wenders fan, but will definitely be getting Anselm if any English-friendly version materializes (which seems unlikely from the knowledgeable comments here). His films definitely lean into dialog.