VAMPYR (1932) - (The Criterion Collection - #437) [DVD9+DVD5] [2008]

With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result—concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris—is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares.









MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Carl Th. Dreyer
COUNTRY: France/Germany
YEAR: 1932

Cast
Julian West
Maurice Schutz
Rena Mandel
Sybille Schmitz
Jan Hieronimko
Henriette Gérard
Albert Bras
N. Babanini
Jane Mora


Credits
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer
Screenplay: Sheridan Le Fanu, Christen Jul, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cinematography: Rudolph Maté, Louis Née (uncredited)
Sound: Hans Bittman, Paul Falkenberg
Editing: Tonka Taldy
Special Effects: Henri Armand







DVD:
DVD RELEASE: July 22, 2008
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 437
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.19:1
COLOR: Black and White
AUDIO: German Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 73 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab + Ultra ISO
DVD: 2 Full DVDs
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO)
FILE SIZE: Disc 1: 7.5 GB, Disc 2: 4.15 GB

Disc Features

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:

* The original German version in a new high-definition digital transfer from the 1998 restoration by Martin Koerber and the Cineteca di Bologna
* Newly credited alternate version with English text
* Audio commentary featuring film scholar Tony Rayns
* Carl Th. Dreyer (1966), a documentary by Jørgen Roos chronicling Dreyer’s career
* Visual essay by scholar Casper Tybjerg on Dreyer’s influences in creating Vampyr
* Radio broadcast from 1958 of Dreyer reading an essay about filmmaking
* New and improved English subtitle translation

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