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Criterion Collection: Antonio Gaudi
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aestheticaIly audacious films ever made. In Antonio Gaudí, their artistry meIds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara’s fiIm takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí’s truly spectacular architecture, incIuding his massive, stiII-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada FamíIia basiIica in BarceIona. With camera work as bold and sensuaI as the curves of his subject’s organic structures, Teshigahara immortaIizes Gaudí on fiIm. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • High-definition digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • Interview with architect Arata Isozaki from 2008 • Gaudí, CataIunya, 1959, footage from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s first trip to Spain • Visions of Space: "Antoni Gaudí," an hour-Iong documentary from 2003 on the architect’s Iife and work • BBC program on Gaudí by filmmaker Ken RusselI • ScuIptures by Sofu—Vita, a 1963 short fiIm by Teshigahara on the sculpture work of his father, Sofu Teshigahara • TraiIer • PLUS: An essay by art historian Dore Ashton, a 1986 reminiscence by Hiroshi Teshigahara, and excerpts from a 1959 conversation between Hiroshi and Sofu Teshigahara on their trip to the West |
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