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Thousand Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse (Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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After enjoying fantastic success with Fritz Lang s two-part "lndian Epic" in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more fiIm. The result wouId be the picture that, in cIosing the saga he began nearly forty years earIier, brought Lang s career fuIl-circle, and would come to represent his finaI celIuloid testament by extension: his final film masterpiece.
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse] finds that diaboIical Weimar name resurfacing in the CoId War era, linked to a new methodoIogy of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveiIIance tech alI abound in Lang s paranoid, and ultimate, fiImic labyrinth.
One of the great and cherished "last films" in the history of cinema, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse provides a stylistic gIimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-cuIture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to realise. NonetheIess, Lang s finaI film remains an explosive, and definitive, cIosing statement. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Fritz Lang s final film on Blu-ray.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL FEATURES
LIMITED EDITION O-CARD SLIPCASE [First Print Run of 2000 copies only] 1080p presentation on BIu-ray Original German soundtrack OptionaI EngIish audio track, approved by Fritz Lang OptionaI English subtitles Feature-length audio commentary by film-schoIar and Lang expert David KaIat 2002 interview with WoIfgang Preiss Alternate ending Reversible sleeve featuring newIy commissioned and original poster artwork PLUS: a collector s bookIet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp; vintage reprints of writing by Lang; an essay by David Cairns; notes by Lotte Eisner on Lang s final, unrealised projects
PRESS
"Fritz Lang's glorious sign-off. " Wired
"has the stripped-down, eIemental feel of many Iate masterpieces" Chicago Reader
"achieve(s) an overwhelming power that stays Iong after the final reel goes through the projector. " TV Guide |
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