Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection

[Morbii]

Thanks, Michael.

On the latter, I figured as much, but wanted to make sure. I probably prefer the U.K. version due to the shorts, which I prioritize over interviews and docs and such (and good to know I can find the content on other discs anyway).

[MichaelB]

All the non-Polish shorts that Arrow released are available in the US via Olive Films. This includes the two supporting shorts included on the UK releases of The Beast and Immoral Tales.

I haven't seen the disc so can't comment on the presentation or encodes, but I can certainly confirm that they're working from the same Arrow restorations.

[Morbii]

Thanks, Michael.

[dadaistnun]

Anatomy of the Devil is getting a new, limited (500 copies) release by Rotland Press.

[MichaelB]

Thanks for that - duly ordered! I recognised the Quays' visual input well before their credit confirmed it.

[Grand Wazoo]

Is the non-short story material from the Camera Obscura box book available online anywhere?

[Pepsi]

Role on La marge as well!

La Marge is available on Netflix (!). A decent master from Studio Canal. So maybe we see also in the future a Blu-Ray release.

[knives]

Really? Under what name? I couldn’t find it.

[therewillbeblus]

Me neither, under its English title either. I see it was added to Netflix in Portugal a few weeks ago, but I’m guessing it’s not on the U.S. Netflix

[Pepsi]

Netflix (Finland) La marge. It has Finnish, Swedish and English subtitles. It's a HD master and looks fine.

[Grand Wazoo]

Anatomy of the Devil is getting a new, limited (500 copies) release by Rotland Press.

I just received mine today and it is indeed a beautiful book with plenty of illustrations and artwork throughout. Highly recommended!

[GaryC]

I'm not at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna right now, but several people I know are. Yesterday, as part of a shorts programme, they showed Borowczyk's Une collection particulière (A Private Collection) in a new 4K restoration from the 35mm negative and internegative...in the Oberhausen Cut version, i.e. with the bestiality footage which was blacked out on Arrow's Blu-ray not blacked out. Needless to say this restoration won't see the light of day in the UK, though maybe the slightly shorter and "softer" version might, assuming that's been restored as well.

[spectre]

That's surprising to hear. Any particular reason it's resurfacing now?

[MichaelB]

An interesting thing about the Oberhausen cut is that that's the original camera negative, with the commercially-released cut a dupe negative—we found this out when restoring the films in 2K back in 2014.

The more legal cut would actually go perfectly well with La Marge, given André Pieyre de Mandiargues' involvement with both, plus fairly close temporal proximity (1973 and 1976).

There is, obviously, no question of the Oberhausen cut getting released intact in the UK without a frankly pretty unlikely change in the law; since 2008, genuine bestiality counts as "extreme pornography", and it's illegal even to possess such material, never mind distribute it. In fact, if I remember rightly, possession of bestiality imagery was one of the many, many charges over which the late Ian Watkins was convicted, although nowhere near the most serious.

[GaryC]

That's surprising to hear. Any particular reason it's resurfacing now?

Apparently yesterday's showing was the first public one of the unedited Oberhausen Cut since that Oberhausen festival showing in 1973. The new 4K restoration was from the original 35mm negative and a 35mm internegative.