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LONDON FILM FESTIVAL TO FEATURE PARAJANOV'S 'COLOR OF POMEGRANATES'
11:01 * 08.10.14
A digitally restored version of Russian-Armenian film director Sergei
Parajanov's 1969 "cinematic Holy Grail" is set to dazzle the London
film festival 2014 this week, according to The Guardian.
When Martin Scorsese introduced his Film Foundation's newly restored
version of "The Colour of Pomegranates" at the Toronto film festival
in September he told the expectant audience they were going to witness
images and visions "pretty much unlike anything in cinema history".
The 1969 film, voted 84th best of all-time in the most recent Sight &
Sound magazine greatest movies poll, only gained a belated official
release in western cinemas in 1982, but even the cinephiles and
critics who have lauded the film with such extravagant praise since
should now prepare to see Sergei Parajanov's masterpiece afresh.
The digital restoration, completed in conjunction with Cineteca di
Bologna, comes as close as possible to the director's original vision
and it is this version, described by critic and Toronto festival
programmer James Quandt as "a cinematic Holy Grail", which will screen
at the London film festival in October.
Read more on The Guardian website.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/07/the-colour-of-pomegranates-sergei-parajanov-london-film-festival-2014
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/10/08/london-iff-pomegranate/
11:01 * 08.10.14
A digitally restored version of Russian-Armenian film director Sergei
Parajanov's 1969 "cinematic Holy Grail" is set to dazzle the London
film festival 2014 this week, according to The Guardian.
When Martin Scorsese introduced his Film Foundation's newly restored
version of "The Colour of Pomegranates" at the Toronto film festival
in September he told the expectant audience they were going to witness
images and visions "pretty much unlike anything in cinema history".
The 1969 film, voted 84th best of all-time in the most recent Sight &
Sound magazine greatest movies poll, only gained a belated official
release in western cinemas in 1982, but even the cinephiles and
critics who have lauded the film with such extravagant praise since
should now prepare to see Sergei Parajanov's masterpiece afresh.
The digital restoration, completed in conjunction with Cineteca di
Bologna, comes as close as possible to the director's original vision
and it is this version, described by critic and Toronto festival
programmer James Quandt as "a cinematic Holy Grail", which will screen
at the London film festival in October.
Read more on The Guardian website.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/07/the-colour-of-pomegranates-sergei-parajanov-london-film-festival-2014
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2014/10/08/london-iff-pomegranate/