Faust

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Studio: Kino International Release Date: 09/02/2003 Run time: 97 minutes


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Item number (ASIN): 6305557144
Actor: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal, Jirí Suchý
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Brand: Kino Video
Category: DVD
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305557144
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English, English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Original Release Date: April 7, 1995
Package Dimensions: 60 x 540 x 750 (hundredths-inches)
Package Quantity: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Running Time: 97, minutes
Theatrical Release Date: April 7, 1995

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Rating: - Please continue to distribute this stunning and wonderfully sinister movie!
This is perhaps one of the most sucessful movie adaptions to the Faust legend or play of all time and so far the most honest I have ever seen. 'But this IS Hell'says Mephistopheles of the world around the novice , who comes to the realization that even in glay or wood form , the demons of the grimoire turned Opus Cabalisticum Et Theosophicum can be quite real and quite terrifying , capable of eating your very soul if they so desire. This is a movie which attempts to depict the phenomenon of shapeshifting using glay animation and wooden statuary during times when shapeshifting had been forgotten about , and when demons were considered as legendary as this DVD has become , but of course from the perspective that they weren't supposed to exist. Now that we know that Heaven and Hell are purely mythical creations and that the afterlife is just a continuation of the personality after bodily death , we can rest pleased and assured by the work of genius that is this Faust , which exists frozen in time between the ancient and modern Faust. The ancient Faust that was Faust , and the Faust of the 1990s. This film is loved not only by us who truly appreciate it's endavour , but also by many famous and less known practicing magicians and occultists who practice magick from the grimoire approax or point of view. Do not underestimate the power of this movie to scare you on some level , because it is sinister. It is a genuinely creepy and sinister film but in a manner that is not easily explainable to a one or slightly more star review of it. I have seen the VHS more than three times and would like to see the DVD. I would like to know how this movie came about and what was feelings it's director and producers and actors had about it's development and reception , that would eventually culminate in this five year review of mine. I think this film should get an oscar for special effects and good acting , and this request may seem an unusual request for a film to receive an oscar. But I do think so! This film in my view rightfully deserves such a prize for how well crafted it is - it is almost like a living painting to watch it - you become part of a two - dimensional world that is superimposed upon a fourth - dimensional one embedded over a third - dimensional one during the days we thought that the fourth dimension was supposed to be time , yet today that dimension is just one of many. Yet this film has nothing to do with other dimensions or shapeshifting per - ce or almost any other reality than the concept of that of it's own - it is so independent that in it's style it is almost impossible to properly criticize from a positive perspective , because it is so well done - perhaps it has reached beyound the level of film production in terms of positive or negative criticism - it is somehow like a general staff superior at the job place who does not necessarily have to look down upon those who are below him on the social ladder , but he understands rather the nature and meaning of why he became a staff superior - and why that had nothing to do with the staff itself. The film thus behaves like a brilliant , highly skilled staff director or company director or just a film director or maybe some kind of director of management in another field , who shows you the world of fantasy and film animation in a manner you never thought was possible before viewing the film. Besides my strange argument and hyper - sharp rational defense for the movie , I am otherwise extremely pleased with it , and very thankful for being given an opportunity to review it here on amazon.com and to request that it be redistributed. Strange , alien words like marionettes occupy the world of the making of this most enigmatic and highly skillful movie , a genuine feast of marvelous masterpiece for the senses , and by that I mean beyound the five ones so many of us thought were the only ones when the film had been released. Bravo and those of you who haven't seen it yet - enjoy watching , you WILL be surprised!!!

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Rating: - ingenious
Filmmaker Jan Svankmajer is a genius at what he does... Another obvious thing to say here is "Faust" is absolutely essential viewing to anyone that loves stop-motion and claymation. Faust is not to be missed if you want to see something unlike anything you have ever seen before. Truly magical moments are contained in this film that amaze and can even shock, even upon repeated viewings. It's worth purchasing on DVD. 6 Stars.

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Rating: - Modern retelling of the Faust myth
This quirky movie bears seeing more than once. For one thing, it's filled with characters that appear repeatedly, something that could be hard to recognize unless you have the earliest and latest scenes fresh in mind. For another, its blurring of life and theater, its fusion and confusion of animation, puppetry, and live action might take more than one sitting to absorb. Svankmajer's sense of the surreal and absurd pervade, as does the sense of poverty and decay lingering from Czechoslovakia's communist misrule. Ballerinas rake hay, marionettes run off on their own, human material turns into stop-animation puppetry - reality takes on a rubbery quality, as you'd expect from Svankmajer's work. I found the complex imagery making up for loose logic and unexplained doings, but I know that won't suit all viewers. If you're willing to assume that reason is somewhere nearby, even if out of sight most of the time, you might enjoy this remarkable achievement in film-making. -- wiredweird

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Rating: - Amazon Recommends III: Jan Svankmajer's Faust
Hello again from this particular aisle of the abstract retail market. Along with the Jiri Barta collection, the recommendation of Jan Svankmajer's Faust comes as no surprise because, well, I own and review a lot of animation and happen to already have Lunacy, Alice, and the Ossuary and Other Tales disc of Svankmajer's own oeuvre. Svankmajer is a visually and poetically crafty person with a real eye towards creating splintered, abstract realities. His stories in many cases are relatively beside the point, which is why he turns to people like Lewis Carroll, de Sade and Poe, and Goethe and Marlowe who already fit his sensibilities so that he can create environments that can best be described as organically petrified and solidly splintered. That said, I'm not so sure "Faust" is the greatest place to start out for beginning viewers: a fair bit of the imagery, especially of food consumed, clay babies, and even the style of puppetry refer to many of his earlier works and read, to me, as a sort of shorthand to his typical symbolic and narrative concerns. Beginning viewers are recommended to check out at least "Alice" and hopefully a handful of his short films before taking on "Faust", which takes its time building its world under Svankmajer's jurisdiction before getting to the root of the story about halfway in. For fans of Svankmajer, however, it might as well be top priority. The movie is at once hilarious and disturbing, witty and mesmerizing, the level of craft of which you can expect from this Czech auteur. Like many of his other works (and arguably those of most serious animators), the primary concern here is over movement. This film in particular expands to a more populated world than Svankmajer is usually used to, and it has a lot of mixed media at play. It really all comes together in a particularly fantastic scene wherein Faust debates philosophy with the constantly metamorphosing head of Mephistopheles. A smoother and more believable reflection of this guy's style is probably not possible. --PolarisDiB

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Rating: - Did get it the first time round.
I purchased this title on a bit of a whim, and after viewing it for the first time I put it on my shelf thinking I would never watch it again. Faust sat on my shelf for about a year. After a year of new experiences and enlightnments I was again ready for faust after a long ensightful nite with my mushy friends. I was up at 6am and wanted to watch a flick and bam there was faust looking me in the face, how could i deny it. During this second viewing I got it and Faust has become my go to movie. This movie is so deep and can be interpereted in a multitude of ways depending on what type of mood you are in while viewing. I find that this movie gets better the more times you watch it, so keep this in mind when purchasing. Again for the record I watched it the first time and did not like it, one year later it is my favorite movie, aint life strangly beautiful. Long live Dr. Faust

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