The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
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Actor: Collected Shorts of Jan SvankmajerDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 153 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
Movie Review: Svankmajer == great. DVD prodution quality == horrible
Summary: 3 Stars
The content here is great. Jan Svankmajer is a brilliant filmmaker, and this collection shows some of the wonderful imagery he puts together. If you know any of his work, this won't be a surprise to you. If you don't, it's time to look at this collection.
The bad? The production quality here is horrible. I don't have a single DVD drive/player that can read both disks. Some play the first one, others play the second. The menus are of a lower quality than I've made on DVDs I've mastered myself, using basic DVD authoring software. The paper sleeve mis-matches the titles of the shorts with the specific shorts on the disk.
Summary of The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
Studio: Kino International Release Date: 05/04/2005 Run time: 172 minutesThe beloved Czech animator Jan Svankmajer receives a handsome retrospective in this two-disc set, compiling his short works from 1965 to 1992. The director of the feature-length films Alice and Little Otik, Svankmajer's shorts are sometimes unsettling yet delicately crafted worlds unto themselves, where inanimate objects like potatoes, piles of office supplies, or slices of meat move with life. There's a crudeness to the movement in these shorts that call attention to their creator's methods, and this crudeness is precisely what give the little stories their antic rhythms. Svankmajer is even interested in applying the herky-jerky pacing of stop-motion to flesh and blood actors; in one short, "Food," a man walks into a room and sits down at a table across from what appears to be another man. Instead, it's an animatronic food-delivery device that is activated by a series of kicks, slaps, and punches, delivering breakfast via a dumbwaiter installed in its chest. Svankmajer created many of these beautifully weird and witty pieces while struggling under the repressive political climate of Eastern Europe during the cold war. That he managed to develop an evolving body of work that inspired a generation of filmmakers like Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam is a testament to his doggedness and the passion of his vision. Extras include a thoughtful BBC documentary about the filmmaker. --Ryan Boudinot
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