Antonio Gaudi - Criterion Collection
by Hiroshi Teshigahara
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Actor: NoneDirector: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 72 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of Antonio Gaudi - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Exploring the Surreal Designs of Antonio Gaud?.
Summary: 4 Stars
Hiroshi Teshigahara's film offers a visually stunning window into the designs of Spanish Catalan architect, Antonio Gaud? (1852-1926). Gaudi is known for his unusual sculptural designs. Influenced by French architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, Gaudi incorporated nature's organic angles and curves into his highly-original buildings, interiors, and park designs. As Teshigahara reveals, Gaudi's creations--most notably the still-unfinished La Sagrada Fam?lia in Barcelona--are nothing less than spectacular, requiring few words to describe them: bizarre, fantastic, magical, and surreal. This poetic film reveals how Gaudi transformed his singular vision into his greatest designs: Casa Vicens (1883-1885), Palau G?ell (1885-1889), College of the Teresianas (1888-1890), Crypt of the Church of Col?nia G?ell (1898-1916), Casa Calvet (1899-1904), Casa Batll? (1905-1907), Casa Mil? (La Pedrera) (1905-1907), Park G?ell (1900-1914), Sagrada Fam?lia Nativity fa?ade and Crypt of the Sagrada Fam?lia church (1884-present). Those viewers interested in the work of Antonio Gaud? may also be interested in Isabel Artigas's comprehensive collection of Gaudi: Gaudi: Complete Works, which complements this DVD rather well.
The two-disc Criterion edition of Teshigahara's film features a newly restored high-definition digital transfer; a video interview with architect Arata Isozaki; "Gaud?, Catalunya, 1959," footage from director Hiroshi Teshigahara's first trip to Spain; "Visions of Space: Antonio Gaud?," a one-hour documentary on the architect's life and work; a BBC program on Gaud? by director Ken Russell; "Sculptures by Sofu--Vita," a short film by Teshigahara on the sculpture of his father, Sofu Teshigahara; and booklet featuring a new essay by art historian Dore Ashton, a reminiscence by Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Hiroshi and Sofu discussing their trip to the West.
G. Merritt
Summary of Antonio Gaudi - Criterion Collection
Catalan architect Antonio Gaud? (1852 1926) designed some of the world s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films of the second half of the twentieth century. Here, their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara s ANTONIO GAUDI takes viewers on a tour of Gaud? s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral, in Barcelona. With camerawork as bold and sensual as the curves on his subject s organic surfaces, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaud? on film.Special Features
* - New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* - New video interview with architect Arata Isozaki
* - Gaud?, Catalunya 1959, a short film by Hiroshi Teshigahara featuring footage from his first trip to Spain
* - Monitor: Antonio Gaud? (1961), a short film essay by director Ken Russell
* - VITA, a short film by Teshigahara on the sculpture work of his father, Sofu Teshigahara
* - Original theatrical trailer
* - New and improved English subtitle translation
* - PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by art historian Dore Ashton, and reprinted writings by Hiroshi and Sofu
Creator of one of the most bizarre and organic styles in the history of architecture, Antonio Gaudi Cornet, Spain's national treasure, was blessed with not only the vision, but the patronage that allowed him to build his elaborate and surreal designs. With Antonio Gaudi, Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) gives a tour of the makings of Gaudi's world. Almost entirely without narration, Teshigahara guides us instead with an eerie score by Toru Takemitsu and a few subtitles. The film is more a poem than a documentary, but don't expect an approach similar to Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi. Instead we are given a quiet soundtrack that mixes Takemitsu's sparse score with the natural sounds surrounding Gaudi's structures, and a stationary camera presents the buildings as if they have sprouted: supports seem to magically erupt from the ground like roots, and our eyes are led through the textures and patterns of Gaudi's elaborate mosaic stone and brick designs. Visually revealing and comprehensive, Teshigahara leaves us with only one thing to do--to view Gaudi's amazing world with our own eyes. --Ted Sonnenschein
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