Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection

[MichaelB]

Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection Blu-ray Limited w/ book

Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection Blu-ray

Now that the Kickstarter campaign to restore Goto is long over (and in any case it only covered just one of the features in the box), I thought that Arrow's massive Walerian Borowczyk project probably needed its own thread.

So here are the provisional specs that Arrow announced yesterday:

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This groundbreaking collection brings together Walerian Borowczyk’s key films from a twenty-five-year period stretching from 1959 through to 1984.
This unique release includes five of Borowczyk’s provocative feature films: Theatre of Mr & Mrs Kabal, Goto Isle of Love, Blanche, Immoral Tales and The Beast, as well as his uniquely original short films from this period.

Not only are many of these films available on Blu-ray and DVD for the first time, but also in new digital high definition restorations approved by the director’s widow, Ligia Branice.

In addition to exclusive documentaries featuring cast and crew, an hour long portrait of Borowczyk is to be included, featuring the director’s musings on painting, animation and sex.

Accompanying this seminal release is a book edited by Borowczyk experts Daniel Bird and Michael Brooke featuring newly commissioned essays on Borowczyk’s films and art, as well as an account of the meticulous restoration process involved.

To round off the release is, for the first time, an English translation of Borowczyk’s 1992 collection of short stories, Anatomy of the Devil, translated by the director's assistant, Michael Levy.

Arrow Academy’s Walerian Borowczyk Collection is a vital addition to anyone interested in either world cinema, animation or experimental film.

Limited Edition collection featuring:

Five feature films:
- Theatre of Mr & Mrs Kabal ([i]Le Théâtre de M. et Mme Kabal/i], 1967)
- Goto, Isle of Love (Goto, l'île d'amour, 1968)
- Blanche (1971)
- Immoral Tales (Contes immoraux, 1974)
- The Beast (La Bête, 1975)

And the short films:
- The Astronauts (Les Astronautes, 1959)
- The Concert (Le Concert de M. et Mme Kabal, 1962)
- Grandmother's Encyclopaedia (L'Encyclopédie de grand'maman, 1963)
- Renaissance (1963)
- Angels' Games (Les Jeux des anges, 1964)
- Joachim's Dictionary (Le Dictionnaire de Joachim, 1965)
- Rosalie (1966)
- Gavotte (1967)
- Diptych (Diptyque, 1967)
- The Phonograph (Le Phonographe, 1969)
- A Private Collection (Une Collection particulière, 1973)
- Venus on the Half-Shell (Escargot de Vénus, 1975)
- The Greatest Love of All Time (L'Amour "monstre" de tous les temps, 1978)
- Scherzo Infernal (1984)

Special Features:
- Brand new 2K restorations (all features, a minimum of nine shorts);
- High Definition digital transfer;
- Newly created exclusive content;
- Collector’s book featuring limited edition exclusive content, new writing on the film, archive content and more!
- More to be announced closer to the release date (provisionally 30 June 2014).

For more information, here's Culture.pl on The Obscenely Fertile Filmmaker Borowczyk, which doubles as an introduction to Arrow's box set.