Vampyr - The Masters of Cinema Series #25

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Vampyr (Masters of Cinema Series) in August

Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Carl Th. Dreyer’s Vampyr as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 25th August 2008 priced at £19.99. The first sound-film by legendary director Carl Theodor Dreyer leads the viewer, as though guided in a trance, through a realm akin to a waking-dream, a zone positioned somewhere between reality and the supernatural.

Traveller Allan Gray (arrestingly depicted by Julian West, aka the secretive real-life Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg) arrives at a countryside inn seemingly beckoned by haunted forces. His growing acquaintance with the family who reside there soon opens up a network of uncanny associations between the dead and the living, of ghostly lore and demonology, which pull Gray ever deeper into an unsettling, and upsetting, mystery. At its core: troubled Gisèle, chaste daughter and sexual incarnation, portrayed by the great, cursed Sybille Schmitz (Diary of a Lost Girl, and inspiration for Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss.) Before the candles of Vampyr exhaust themselves, Allan Gray and the viewer alike come eye-to-eye with Fate — in the face of dear dying Sybille, in the blasphemed bodies of horrific bat-men, in the charged and mortal act of asphyxiation — eye-to-eye, then, with Death — the supreme vampire.

The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Dreyer’s truly terrifying film in its film restored form for the first time in the UK.

Features include:

# New, high-definition transfer of the Martin Koerber / Cineteca di Bologna film restoration in its original aspect ratio (1.19:1)
# New and improved English subtitle translation
# Full-length audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns
# Full-length audio commentary featuring Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro talking about one of his favourite films
# Two deleted scenes, removed by the German censor in 1932
# Carl Th. Dreyer (1966) – a documentary by Jörgen Roos
# Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer’s Vampyr influences
# The Baron – a short MoC documentary about Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg
# Inspiration for the film – Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla – as an on-disc pdf.
# 80-page book featuring rare production stills, a facsimile reproduction of the 1932 Danish film programme, writing by Tom Milne (The Cinema of Carl Dreyer), Jean and Dale Drum (My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer), and Martin Koerber (film restorer).

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