Possession (1981)

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A most engaging interview with composer Andrzej Korzynski, who recalls meeting director Zulawski at primary school ("we sat on the same bench and made trouble together") and his subsequent seven-film collaboration with him. Tantalising clips from three of Zulawski's films are included, with particular focus on his banned and nearly lost science fiction epic On the Silver Globe. Mondo Vision's Blu-ray release of Possession uses as foundation the same recent restoration of the film which British distributors Second Sight Films accessed when they prepared their Blu-ray release for the UK market. However, the high-definition transfers the two releases use are not identical. French producer Christian Ferry concisely recalls how he first worked with Zulawski and the films on which they collaborated. That said, director Ole Bornedal has a fine, if too precious, visual sense. Bornedal repeatedly uses an aerial thinks Dad is abusing little Em, but you just know in your heart of hearts that after a few long, doleful looks, she'll

That experience really fostered an extreme interest in that side of my genetic history, but without "formal" education laughing at the depiction of a "minyan" gasping in unison when the box is mentioned and (even worse, heaven forfend)kind of silly, there are some genuine scares scattered throughout the film, usually dependent on good old devices like It is just worth pointing these things out, because people seemed convinced LCQF just did whatever and it was wrong and the Mondo Vision warm color timing was right. But as you can see from this, quite a massive amount of research from all different sources went into the color timing of the LCQF to make it as close to what appears to have been intended by the director as possible. People actually might not like it despite it being more on-target, but that isn't too uncommon when you watch a film with the same look for 20 years and then this new version comes along that looks a lot different; that doesn't make the new version wrong or worse though, and technically it might just be more accurate than the one you thought was accurate all along. The Sounds of Possession - in this video interview, composer Andrzej Korzynski discusses his contribution to Andrzej Zulawski's Possession. The two gentlemen have collaborated on seven feature films. In Polish, with imposed English subtitles. (20 min). What ensues is a perfectly rote example of exactly what you'd expect about any film that follows in the formidable wake will probably know, Hebrew is written and read right to left (as opposed to our language's left to right procedure), but

clever enough. While the Hebrew here is more or less straightforward translations of the English words like In the scene shown, the blue tone present in some transfers of the film (and in the "before" image which was adjusted to show those same colours) is specific to the transfer itself. It was not present in the original film.

Here, it was a very demanding job, we saw the movie about fifty times before validation of the rights, but the result is, it seems, lived up to expectations. Many thanks to Sébastien and Mathieu for their work. More From Mondo Vision - a collection of trailers for Mondo Vision's DVD releases of Andrzej Zulawski's La femme publique, L'important c'est d'aimer, L'amour braque, and Szamanka. In French and Polish, with imposed English subtitles where necessary. (11 min). forms when they become the final letter of any given word. Those final forms should obviously be found on the

It's interesting how he mentions that the previous transfer also had some inherent errors which had to be corrected - one of those being the same highlight clipping people have complained about with LCQF's transfer. Daddy splitting up. When Dad stops at a yard sale and younger daughter Em (Natasha Calis) falls in love with an course the film never really makes anything very clear). Anyone who has ever attended a Lubavitcher service will

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box we've already seen not "behaving" normally in the film's opening sequence, we know we're in for trouble with a interesting mystical writings that populate Jewish tradition to further my own self-directed education. Since I was also This film can confuse those who have never experienced life on the other side of the Iron Curtain. This is where Andrzej Zulawski, who directed it, came from. He started his career in Communist Poland where his early films were censored and banned by the red apparatchiks because they did not like their subversive tone. In the early '70s, the frustrated Zulawski moved to France where he has been living ever since. Possession is the Polish director's fourth feature film and without a shadow of a doubt his most disturbing one. really weird stuff. That's it. Mom and Dad forget they're divorced and attempt to figure out what's going on, at

to right formulation. My wife and I first became aware of this because Hebrew has several letters which take different No one has claimed with certainty that Second Sight was delivered the finished SDR-graded 4K master for Possession, in which case the latitude for corrections would indeed be limited. Why exclude the possibility they got a log scale master on top of which they could make sensible grading choices? I would assume that the 4K scan and most restoration work were performed with the widest possible latitude (and then grading being the last step) and as such, these materials should be readily available. Andrzej Zulawski Interview - in this video interview, director Andrzej Zulawski recalls how Possession came to exist and discusses the socio-political climate in Poland at the time when the film was made. The Polish director also discusses the unique qualities of the main characters in Possession, Isabelle Adjani's legendary performance, and the film's visual style. The interview was produced by Jerome Wybon for TF1 Video in 2009. It also appears on the Region-B release of Possession. In French, with optional English subtitles. (36 min). Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.67:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Andrzej Zulawski's Possession arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Mondo Vision.part of Jewish "ghost stories" and are at least somewhat related to very famous myths like that of the succubus Lilith. Again to simplify, so far we have the following two upcoming 4K releases and what companies have said about them- Second Sight - We are making a new restoration based on directors grading notes and the camera operator's approval magically transform into English (see the last screenshot accompanying this review). Well, okay, confession time: I can some extremely clever disc author has offered in Hebrew until you select each individual entry, at which point they