| Description |
2 videodiscs (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 425 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 425.
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| System Details |
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; full screen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1; high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound. |
| Performer |
Interview [subject] Isidro Puig Boada; Voice of Isidro Puig Boada, Seiji Miyaguchi. |
| Credits |
Photography, Junichi Segawa, Yoshikazu Yanagida, Ryu Segawa ; music, Toru Takemitsu, Kurodo Mouri, Shinji Hori ; editor, Eiko Yoshida ; consultant, René Roland. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a Japanese documentary in 1984. |
| Summary |
"Everything comes from the great book of Nature; human attainments are an already printed book." - Gaudi, end title screen. The Catalan architect, ceramist, and sculptor united Neo-Gothic mysticism and grandeur with Art Nouveau lines, combined with a surreal apprehension of the power of nature. Less of a documentary than a tribute, Teshigahara's film becomes a place to get lost, a radically hypnotic travelogue that's completely symbiotic with its subject. Almost wordless, this visual rhapsody is accompanied by music from composer Toru Takemitsu, whose free-floating East-meets-West impressionism and organic flow mimics the sprouting curvilinear shapes of Gaudi's buildings. |
| Contents |
Disc One: The film Logos -- Magic Fountain of Montjuïc -- Barcelona -- Spanish art -- Palace of Catalan music -- Casa Amatller -- Casa Batlló -- La Pedrera -- Catalonian countryside -- Designs -- Casa Vicens -- Bellesguard -- Santa Teresa School -- Güell Pavilions -- Güell palace -- Güell cellar -- Sagrada Familia School -- La Boqueria market -- Colònia Güell crypt -- Park Güell -- Montserrat -- Sagrada Família -- End credits -- Color bars (72 min.) ( ) Special features: Theatrical trailer (2 min.). |
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Disc two: The supplements: Gaudí, Catalunya, 1959 [featurette] / by Hiroshi Teshigahara (20 min.) -- Arata Isozaki interview [featurette] (13 min.) -- Visions of Space: Antoni Gaudí God's architect [featurette] / BBC ; by Robert Hughes ; produced and directed by Mandy Chang (60 min) (2003) -- Monitor [featurette; b&w] / Ken Russell (16 min) (2003) -- Vita: Sculptures by Sofu [featurette; b&w and color] / by Hiroshi Teshigahara (17 min.) ( ); booklet includes the essays "Border Crossings" by Dore Ashton and "My First Trip to the West" by Hiroshi Teshigahara. |
| Language |
In Japanese with optional subtitles in English. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Gaudí, Antoni, 1852-1926.
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Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)
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Güell Park (Barcelona, Spain)
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Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona, Spain)
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Sagrada Família (Church : Barcelona, Spain)
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Eclecticism in architecture -- Spain.
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Architects -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Biography.
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Architecture -- Spain -- Barcelona -- History.
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Barcelona (Spain)
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Feature films.
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Foreign films.
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction films.
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Biographical films.
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Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Teshigahara, Hiroshi.
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Nomura, Noriko.
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Puig Boada, Isidre.
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Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985.
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Isozaki, Arata.
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Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.
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Chang, Mandy.
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Russell, Ken, 1927-2011.
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Janus Films.
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Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
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Teshigahara Productions (Firm)
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British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781604650228 |
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1604650222 |
| Standard No. |
715515028325 |
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00715515028325 gtin-14 |
| Music No. |
CC1742D Criterion Collection |
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