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Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:23 am
by Bikey
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:26 am
by Bikey
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:58 am
by MichaelB
Mondo Digital:
Second Run released a DVD in 2005 from the best video master at the time, which unfortunately still wasn't all that great. Dull, smudgy, and filled with distortion, it's been replaced with a remastered 2012 edition that plays like an entirely different film. It's a gorgeous restoration, to put it mildly, and the perfect way to make the acquaintance of this fascinating film.
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:56 am
by Bikey
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:28 am
by Bikey
Sad news... we just heard that the great Polish actress
Lucyna Winnicka, star of Kawalerowicz's NIGHT TRAIN and MOTHER JOAN herself, died on 22 January 2013.
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 2:52 pm
by TMDaines
This title doesn't seem to be stocked at too many e-tailers:
Click. Is there any reason why thehut, Zavvi, WOWHD and others don't have it?
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 6:41 pm
by Bikey
We have plenty of stock of this title, and it is available at many of the usual e-retailers.
The Hut, Zavvi and WOWCD are all supplied by the same wholesalers, so it could be that they are another knock-on effect of HMV going into administration (ie suppliers are being more careful about supplying stock direct to retailers?)?
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:03 pm
by Bikey
Close Up Film Centre begin a regular strand of Second Run screenings with Jerzy Kawalerowicz's stunning MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS (Matka Joanna od Aniołów) -
Tuesday 17th Nov at 8pm.
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 4:01 pm
by What A Disgrace
Blu-ray upgrade coming in October.
Re: 5/71 Mother Joan of the Angels
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2026 5:03 pm
by therewillbeblus
Very cool. I finally got around to this recently and really enjoyed it, though I definitely interpreted the possession as a self-induced psychological tactic to make sense of uncomfortable situations and emotional states.
When the priest finally breaks down and commits violence to 'save' the abbess, it feels like a desperate attempt to engage in a tangible act with so much outside of his control, which causes a psychological breakdown. The abbess' alleviation of her symptoms also seems like a reprieve in feeling a connection with another person -the priest- caring for her, even if it's done in a perverse manner. I wondered if the whole demonic possession spreading across the community of nuns stemmed from a sense of isolation and lack of reciprocity from a tangible higher being or outside human connection.
I realize the film is deliberately ambiguous, but I enjoyed entertaining this reading more than a straightforward one