Too Early / Too Late (1981)
Trop tôt, trop tard
Documentary • 1h 40m
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
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Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
Grasshopper's Moses and Aaron Blu-ray bonus
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Available in Grasshopper's Moses and Aaron's bonus https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/moses-and-aaron/
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
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Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
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While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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