11.12.2023 - 25.12.2024 Events, Film, News

Limited Edition JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI Box Set by Second Run

Box Set containing a selection of Skolimowski's 1960s feature films – Walkover (Walkower, 1965), Barrier (Bariera, 1966), and Dialogue 20 40 60 (Dialóg 20-40-60, 1968) plus rarely seen early short films.

Released 11th December 2023

3-Disc Limited Edition Blu-Ray Box Set

Second Run presents essential early works by Polish director and iconoclast Jerzy Skolimowski, one of international cinema’s most prolific and celebrated filmmakers.


This Limited Edition 3-disc Blu-ray Box Set contains a selection of 1960s feature films – Walkover (Walkower, 1965), Barrier (Bariera, 1966), and Dialogue 20 40 60 (Dialóg 20-40-60, 1968) – presented from stunning new 2K restorations, plus rarely seen early short films newly remastered in HD and released for the first time ever on Blu-ray.


“Skolimowski has produced a body of work located on the margins between the surreal and the absurd… His is a cinema of irony ambiguously played out […] located between reality and fantasy where the real shades into metaphor.”
Great Directors: Skolimowski

Walkover
Dialogue 20-40-60
Barrier


BLU-RAY 3-DISC LIMITED EDITION BOX-SET CONTENTS
• Walkover and Barrier presented from new 2K restorations by WFDiF Poland, and supervised by Jerzy Skolimowski.
• Dialogue 20 40 60 presented from a new 2K restoration by the Slovak Film Institute. • Introductions to Walkover and Barrier by Polish cinema expert Michał Oleszczyk.
• Audio commentaries on Walkover and Barrier by producer and film historian Michael Brooke.
• Jerzy Skolimowski’s rarely seen early short films, newly remastered in HD: The Menacing Eye (Oko wykol, 1960); Little Hamlet (Hamleś, 1960); Erotyk (1961); Your Money or Your Life (Pieniądze albo życie, 1961)
• Individual booklets with new writing on each film by author, filmmaker and Polish cinema specialist David Thompson. • New and improved English subtitle translations.
• World and UK premieres on Blu-ray.
• Region-free Blu-rays (A/B/C).

To buy the Box-Set visit:

Second Run webstore: https://tinyurl.com/3d6u5u52

or Amazon UK: https://tinyurl.com/2p878h9f

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