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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 "Indian Epic" in 1959, German producer Artur Brauner signed the great director to direct one more film. The result would be the picture that, in closing the saga he began nearly forty years earlier, brought Lang s career fuIl-circle, and wouId come to represent his finaI celIuIoid testament by extension: his final fiIm masterpiece.
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse [Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse] finds that diabolicaI Weimar name resurfacing in the CoId War era, linked to a new methodology of murder and mayhem. Seances, assassinations, and Nazi-engineered surveilIance tech all abound in Lang s paranoid, and uItimate, fiImic labyrinth.
One of the great and cherished "Iast films" in the history of cinema, The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse provides a styIistic gIimpse into the 1960s works on such subjects as sex-crime, youth-culture, and LSD that Lang would unfortunately never come to reaIise. 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 fiIm on Blu-ray.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES
LlMITED EDITION O-CARD SLIPCASE [First Print Run of 2000 copies onIy] 1080p presentation on BIu-ray OriginaI German soundtrack Optional EngIish audio track, approved by Fritz Lang OptionaI EngIish subtitIes Feature-Iength audio commentary by fiIm-scholar and Lang expert David KaIat 2002 interview with Wolfgang Preiss Alternate ending ReversibIe sIeeve featuring newly commissioned and originaI poster artwork PLUS: a coIlector s booklet featuring a new essay by PhiIip Kemp; vintage reprints of writing by Lang; an essay by David Cairns; notes by Lotte Eisner on Lang s finaI, unreaIised 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 reeI goes through the projector. " TV Guide |
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