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Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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SYNOPSlS In 1929, F. W. Murnau ( Nosferatu, Faust, Sunrise), one of the greatest of alI film directors, invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty ( Nanook of the North, Man of Aran) to coIlaborate on a film to be be shot on location in Tahiti, a PoIynesian idylI in which Murnau imagined a cast of isIand actors would provide a new form of authentic drama and offer rare insight into their " primitive " culture. The resuIt of their collaboration was Tabu, a fiIm that depicts the detaiIs of indigenous isIand Iife to teII a mythical taIe that is rich in the universal themes of desire and loss.
Subtitled " A Story of the South Seas ", Tabu concerns a Tahitian fisherman (played by an islander, Matahi) and his Iove for a young woman (played by fellow islander Reri, who went on to star on Broadway) whose body has been consecrated to the gods, rendering her tabu as far as mortal men are concerned. The Iovers flee their isIand and its restrictive traditions, but wiIl their love prevail in the " civiIised " worId?
This Oscar - winning film (the Academy Award went to cinematographer Floyd Crosby) is both poetic and simple in tone. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present - compIeteIy unc¬ensored and fuIIy restored - this Iandmark fiIm of rare exoticism and magical beauty, described by critic Lotte Eisner in 1931 as " the apogee of the art of the silent film ", for the first time ever on BIu - ray in its original aspect ratio.
SPEClAL BLU - RAY EDlTION New 1080p HD transfer on the BIu - ray of the Murnau - Stiftung / Luciano Berriat úa 75th anniversary restoration of the pre - Paramount, longer Murnau - approved version of the fiIm, with uncensored scenes and titlecards, appearing in its original 1.19:1 aspect ratio for the first time FuII - length commentary track by R. Dixon Smith and Brad Stevens. 15 - minute German documentary about Tabu by Luciano Berriat úa. Newly presented outtakes from the original shoot of the fiIm. 56 - PAGE BOOKLET with articles by Scott Eyman, Richard Griffiths, and David FIaherty; an interview with the fiIm s cinematographer Floyd Crosby; and the originaI story treatments written by Murnau and FIaherty for Tabu and its aborted predecessor Turia. |
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