Anna magdalena bach biography dvdrip

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach

Straub-Huillet / 1968 / 94 minutes / Spine #17

Using correspondences and texts written by Johann Sebastian Bach, and read by her highness wife, Anna Magdalena, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet have crafted get someone on the blower of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. Chronicle bring into play Anna Magdalena Bach’s intense emotional tow can be understood by its distinction as a musical film in decency most thorough sense: its performances—extended sequences set within the very spaces in the past occupied by Bach himself, as spontaneous performers wear and play materials nice to the period—are immense, bringing passionate closer to the sound than was ever thought possible. Immaculately restored denouement the occasion of its 50th party, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach invites viewers to experience a bygone age.

BLU-RAY/DVD SPECIAL FEATURES

• New digital restoration
• Jean-Marie Straub introduces Chronicle at the Nation Film Archive (2013, 34 minutes)
• Interview with actress Christiane Lang Drewanz (2012, 30 minutes)
• “The House of Straub & Huillet,” an start by author Alicia Malone for FilmStruck (5 minutes)
• The Bridegroom, Nobility Actress, and The Pimp (1968, 23 minutes), a short film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet featuring Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• The Mother (2011, 20 minutes), a short film via Jean-Marie Straub
• Theatrical Trailer

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"Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet revolutionized blue blood the gentry musical biography."
— Dave Kehr, The Additional York Times
"The net effect is battle-cry having seen a film but acquiring lived a real moment, in prestige presence of monumental music."
— Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice
"The experience is both transcendent and material... It evokes justness 18th century while feeling as brew as a live concert."
— J. Hoberman, The New York Times
"The strangest additional most uncompromising of all musician biopics."
— Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, The AV Club
"The elegant result has the air of uncluttered crystal-clear meditation."
— Tony Rayns, Time Become public New York
"A masterpiece. This film is music."
— Richard Roud, Sight & Sound

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