Quay Brothers

Inner Sanctums - Quay Brothers: The Collected Animated Films 1979 - 2013 (Blu-ray)

Films by The Quay Brothers
Since the late 1970s, the identical twin Quay Brothers have made a unique contribution to animation in general and the puppet film in particular. Filtering arcane visual, literary, musical, cinematic and philosophical influences through their own utterly distinctive sensibility, each Quay film rivets the attention through hypnotic control of décor, camera, lighting, music and movement, evoking half-remembered dreams, fascinating and yet deeply unsettling in turn.

This comprehensive two-disc set provides an overview of the Quays' career, containing twenty-four of their short films - three UK premieres and five world premieres - and also includes Christopher Nolan's new short documentary, Quay (2015), revealing the inner workings of the brothers studio.

The Films:
Nocturna Artificialia (1979)
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Stille Nacht I: Dramolet (1988)
Ex-Voto (1989)
The Comb (1990)
Anamorphosis (1991)
The Calligrapher (Parts I, II, III) (1991)
Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married? (1992)
Stille Nacht III: Tales from Vienna Woods (1993)
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You (1994)
In Absentia (2000)
The Phantom Museum (2003)
Songs for Dead Children (2003)
Eurydice, She So Beloved (2007)
Alice in Not so Wonderland (2007)
Kinoteka Ident (2008)
Inventorium of Traces (2009)
Wonderwood for Comme des Garçons (2010)
Maska (2010)
Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. (2013)
Special features

Newly remastered presentations
Introduction by the Quay Brothers (2006, 20 mins)
Quay (2015, 8 mins): a film by Christopher Nolan
Quay Brothers audio commentaries for This Unnameable Little Broom, Street of Crocodiles, Stille Nacht l, Stille Nacht ll, Stille Nacht lll and In Absentia
The Falls (excerpt) (1980, 5 mins)
BFI Distribution ident (1991, 30 secs)
The Summit (1995, 12 mins)
No Bones About It! Quay Brothers (2010, 12 mins)
Behind the Scenes with the Quay Brothers (2013, 31 mins)
Unmistaken Hands: Ex Voto F.H. trailer (2 mins)
Extensive booklet containing Michael Brooke's 'A Quays Dictionary' (updated) and the 2013 dialogue 'On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets'
UK | 1979-2013 | colour, and black and white | English language | 305 minutes | Various original aspect ratios | BD50 x 2 | 1080p | 24fps | PCM audio (48kHz/24-bit) | Cert 15 | Region B

Review
'To enter the impossible, haunted night of a Quay Brothers film is to become complicit in one of the most perverse and obsessive acts of cinema' --Michael Atkinson, Film Comment

'Wonderful, brilliant stuff' --Terry Gilliam

'One of art's most ingenious and visionary collaborations' --Artforum
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The last collection went up to 2003, so this should be worth it.
 
The Quay brothers have been working on their feature-length treatment of Bruno Schulz's Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass since at least 2013. I understand that financing issues might be delaying this project from reaching its completion.

A few months ago, an exclusive preview was shared, containing six and a half minutes of footage from the film. This is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkfQGkAIgo

It looks brilliant. I truly hope to see the entire film in the near future. If I were a wealthy man, I would just send them the money and consider it a metaphysical charity of sorts.

Gods of the Underworld, I perform the appropriate necromantic rites, make this film happen, make it happen, make it happen...
 
The Quay brothers and the Polish Cultural Institute in London; Bruno Schulz and Cyprian Kamil Norwid.

Happy viewing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVsb25uGlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5nLr7t4mnI
 
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