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Science Is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé (2007)
3xDVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 313 mins | 7,86 Gb + 6,84 Gb + 7,52 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps; Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary | The Criterion Collection #468
3xDVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 313 mins | 7,86 Gb + 6,84 Gb + 7,52 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps; Score AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary | The Criterion Collection #468
Director: Jean Painlevé
The mesmerizing, utterly unclassifiable science films of Jean Painlevé (1902-89) have to be seen to be believed: delightful, surrealist-influenced dream works that are also serious science. The French filmmaker-scientist-inventor had a decades-spanning career in which he created hundreds of short films on subjects ranging from astronomy to pigeons to, most famously, such marine-life marvels as the sea horse and the sea urchin. This definitive three-disc collection brings together the best of these, and also includes the French television series Jean Painlevé Through His Films, rock band Yo La Tengo’s eight-film score The Sounds of Science, and an essay by film scholar Scott MacDonald.
* New, restored digital transfers of all twenty-three films
* New and improved English subtitle translations
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Scott MacDonald
Disc One:
POPULAR FILMS
* HYAS AND STENORHYNCHUS (HYAS ET STENORINQUES)
1927 * 10 minutes * Black & White
* SEA URCHIINS (OURSINS)
1954 * 11 minutes * Color
* HOW SOME JELLYFISH ARE BORN_ (COMMENT NAISSENT DES MÉDUSES)
1960 * 14 minutes * Black & White
* LIQUID CRYSTALS (CRISTAUX LIQUIDES)
1978 * 6 minutes * Color
* THE SEA HORSE (L’HIPPOCAMPE)
1933 * 14 minutes * Black & White
* THE LOVE LIFE OF THE OCTOPUS (LES AMOURS DE LA PIEUVRE)
1967 * 14 minutes * Color
* SHRIMP STORIES (HISTOIRES DE CREVETTES)
1964 * 10 minutes * Color
* ACERA, OR THE WITCHES’ DANCE (ACERA OU LE BAL DES SORCIÈRES)
1972 * 13 minutes * Color
* THE VAMPIRE (LE VAMPIRE)
1945 * 9 minutes * Black & White
* FRESHWATER ASSASSINS (LES ASSASSINS D’EAU DOUCE)
1947 * 24 minutes * Black & White
* SEA BALLERINAS (LES DANSEUSES DE LA MER)
1956 * 13 minutes * Color
* DIATOMS (DIATOMÉES)
1968 * 17 minutes * Color
* PIGEONS IN THE SQUARE (LES PIGEONS DU SQUARE)
1982 * 27 minutes * Color
THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE
* Eight films with original score by Yo La Tengo
* Interview with Yo La Tengo
Disc Two:
EARLY POPULAR SILENT FILMS
* THE OCTOPUS (LA PIEUVRE)
1927 * 13 minutes * Black & White
* SEA URCHIINS (LES OURSINS)
1928 * 10 minutes * Black & White
* DAPHNIA (LA DAPHNIE)
1928 * 9 minutes * Black & White
SILENT RESEARCH FILMS
* THE STICKLEBACK’S EGG_ (L’OEUF D’ÉPINOCHE)
1925 * 26 minutes * Black & White
* EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT OF A HEMORRHAGE IN A DOG (TRAITEMENT ÉXPERIMENTAL D’UNE HÉMORRAGIE CHEZ LE CHIEN)
1930 * 4 minutes * Black & White
FILMS FOR LE PALAIS DE LA DÉCOUVERTE
* THE FOURTH DIMENSION (LA QUATRIÈME DIMENSION)
1936 * 10 minutes * Black & White
* THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL (IMAGES MATHÉMATIQUES DE LA LUTTE POUR LA VIE)
1937 * 14 minutes * Black & White
* VOYAGE TO THE SKY (VOYAGE DANS LE CIEL)
1937 * 11 minutes * Black & White
* SIMILARITIES BETWEEN LENGTH AND SPEED (SIMILITUDES DES LONGEURS ET DES VITESSES)
1937 * 10 minutes * Black & White
ANIMATION
* BLUEBEARD (BARBE-BLEU)
1938 * 13 minutes * Gasparcolor
* More than two hours of interviews with the filmmaker, drawn from the eight-part television series Jean Painlevé Through His Films, directed by Denis Derrien and Hélène Hazera
Disc Three:
Jean Painlevé through his films
* New and improved English subtitle translations
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Scott MacDonald
Disc One:
POPULAR FILMS
* HYAS AND STENORHYNCHUS (HYAS ET STENORINQUES)
1927 * 10 minutes * Black & White
* SEA URCHIINS (OURSINS)
1954 * 11 minutes * Color
* HOW SOME JELLYFISH ARE BORN_ (COMMENT NAISSENT DES MÉDUSES)
1960 * 14 minutes * Black & White
* LIQUID CRYSTALS (CRISTAUX LIQUIDES)
1978 * 6 minutes * Color
* THE SEA HORSE (L’HIPPOCAMPE)
1933 * 14 minutes * Black & White
* THE LOVE LIFE OF THE OCTOPUS (LES AMOURS DE LA PIEUVRE)
1967 * 14 minutes * Color
* SHRIMP STORIES (HISTOIRES DE CREVETTES)
1964 * 10 minutes * Color
* ACERA, OR THE WITCHES’ DANCE (ACERA OU LE BAL DES SORCIÈRES)
1972 * 13 minutes * Color
* THE VAMPIRE (LE VAMPIRE)
1945 * 9 minutes * Black & White
* FRESHWATER ASSASSINS (LES ASSASSINS D’EAU DOUCE)
1947 * 24 minutes * Black & White
* SEA BALLERINAS (LES DANSEUSES DE LA MER)
1956 * 13 minutes * Color
* DIATOMS (DIATOMÉES)
1968 * 17 minutes * Color
* PIGEONS IN THE SQUARE (LES PIGEONS DU SQUARE)
1982 * 27 minutes * Color
THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE
* Eight films with original score by Yo La Tengo
* Interview with Yo La Tengo
Disc Two:
EARLY POPULAR SILENT FILMS
* THE OCTOPUS (LA PIEUVRE)
1927 * 13 minutes * Black & White
* SEA URCHIINS (LES OURSINS)
1928 * 10 minutes * Black & White
* DAPHNIA (LA DAPHNIE)
1928 * 9 minutes * Black & White
SILENT RESEARCH FILMS
* THE STICKLEBACK’S EGG_ (L’OEUF D’ÉPINOCHE)
1925 * 26 minutes * Black & White
* EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT OF A HEMORRHAGE IN A DOG (TRAITEMENT ÉXPERIMENTAL D’UNE HÉMORRAGIE CHEZ LE CHIEN)
1930 * 4 minutes * Black & White
FILMS FOR LE PALAIS DE LA DÉCOUVERTE
* THE FOURTH DIMENSION (LA QUATRIÈME DIMENSION)
1936 * 10 minutes * Black & White
* THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL (IMAGES MATHÉMATIQUES DE LA LUTTE POUR LA VIE)
1937 * 14 minutes * Black & White
* VOYAGE TO THE SKY (VOYAGE DANS LE CIEL)
1937 * 11 minutes * Black & White
* SIMILARITIES BETWEEN LENGTH AND SPEED (SIMILITUDES DES LONGEURS ET DES VITESSES)
1937 * 10 minutes * Black & White
ANIMATION
* BLUEBEARD (BARBE-BLEU)
1938 * 13 minutes * Gasparcolor
* More than two hours of interviews with the filmmaker, drawn from the eight-part television series Jean Painlevé Through His Films, directed by Denis Derrien and Hélène Hazera
Disc Three:
Jean Painlevé through his films
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It makes sense that indie-rock band Yo La Tengo would write and perform its own score for the surrealistic nature films of Jean Painlevé. As musicians, the members of Yo La Tengo have always been as interested in texture and drone as they have in melody, and as a documentary filmmaker, Painlevé focused more on the alien imagery of the animal kingdom than he did on educating his viewers. Painlevé was a scientist who scandalized the academy in the ‘20s when he suggested that an artform as vulgar as cinema could be used to record and convey the wonders of the natural world. By the ‘30s, Painlevé drifted into a circle of Parisian artists and activists, and began using his films as subtle political tracts, peppered with visual whimsy. Like Yo La Tengo, Painlevé found patterns in chaos, and used those patterns to propel his point of view.![Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve (2007) [The Criterion Collection #468] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/1e/66/0026661e_medium.jpeg)
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The three-disc Criterion DVD set Science Is Fiction: 23 Films By Jean Painlevé contains a 90-minute program of assorted Painlevé footage backed by a Yo La Tengo live performance, along with a three-hour documentary about Painlevé and the 23 unadulterated films cited in the title. It’s those originals that are the set’s real selling-point. The films run the gamut from 1978’s “Liquid Crystals”—six minutes of swirling color set to a free-form orchestral score—to the relatively more straightforward 1967 short “The Love Life Of The Octopus,” which delivers useful-but-creepy information about octopus mating habits. Throughout his career, Painlevé made films for scientific researchers to use, films for the avant-garde crowd, and films for classrooms and general audiences. Science Is Fiction offers samples of each, and while some of the lengthier silent studies from the ‘20s can get a little tedious, films like “ACERA, or The Witches’ Dance”—which documents the balletic courtship ritual of a small mollusk—are astoundingly beautiful.![Science Is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve (2007) [The Criterion Collection #468] [ReUp]](https://pixhost.icu/avaxhome/1f/66/0026661f_medium.jpeg)
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Even more remarkable than the way Painlevé’s work catches the eye though is how multi-layered it so often is. Science Is Fiction contains one of Painlevé’s most famous films, 1945’s “The Vampire,” which uses bats as a metaphor for Nazism, but the set also features films that emphasize the kinky sexuality and alternative methods of organizing among animals, covertly arguing for a more libertine perspective in human society. Painlevé could blow minds—as in his jaw-dropping “The Fourth Dimension,” which explains dimensional space via juxtapositions and manipulations that Luis Buñuel would envy—but he was just as content to lull an audience with pretty pictures of birds and fish, while subtly changing the way they perceived the world around them.
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French filmaker/scientist/inventor/surrealist JEAN PAINLEVE (1902-89) creates in this Criterion Collection 23 arty short films on nature, that are filmed so creatively on subjects ranging from marine life to astronomy that the film remains unclassifiable and even looks surreal at times. It reveals the wonder and beauty of organisms in both color and black and white films, letting us observe such things as the ordinary algae in a studious way we might not have seen it before, as well as the unique movements of sea urchins, the strange habits of the blood-sucking South American vampire bats and a close-up view on how jellyfish are born. It's sort of like watching an educational science film at school, one that's never boring and lets us freely observe nature as if it were performing its act under a microscope with the sometimes aid of trick photography. It's a highly recommended film that is both educational and entertaining, and offers you all you might ask for in a nature film. To add to your viewing pleasure, the Yo La Tengo rock group's background music on some of the films adds to the excitement. I would suggest not taking this lengthy compilation of short films in on only one sitting but stretching it out to many viewings. I think it becomes less of a strain that way.Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
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Special Features:
• The Sounds of Science, an original score by Yo La Tengo to Jean Painlevé’s films, plus an interview with the band (9:20)
• More than two hours of interviews with the filmmaker, drawn from the eight-part television series Jean Painlevé Through His Films, directed by Denis Derrien and Hélène Hazera
• 26-page booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Scott MacDonald
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