{"product_id":"martin-scorseses-world-cinema-project-no-6-blu-ray-us","title":"Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 6 [Blu-ray] [US]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEstablished by Martin Scorsese in 2007, The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of more than seventy restorations of works by essential filmmakers. This collector’s set gathers four arresting and stylistically distinctive films, ranging from the politically charged to the mythical and dreamlike, from Guinea-Bissau (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Brazil (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Côte d’Ivoire (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman with the Knife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), and Iran (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Each title is a significant contribution to the art form and a window onto a cinematic tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA soulful, bottom-up portrait of a country finding its postcolonial identity, \u003cem\u003eMortu nega \u003c\/em\u003efollows the determined Diminga (Bia Gomes) as she journeys to the front lines in search of her soldier husband during the final days of Guinea-Bissau’s war for liberation from Portugal. After freedom is won, Diminga and her compatriots must maintain a steely resolve in the face of a host of daily challenges: accessing health care, navigating the state bureaucracy, and confronting a devastating drought. Directed with fierce commitment by Flora Gomes, a student of anticolonial leader Amílcar Cabral’s, \u003cem\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/em\u003e offers a clarion call for strength and healing through unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMortu nega \u003cem\u003ewas restored in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Flora Gomes. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers, and UNESCO, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema. Funding was provided by the Hobson\/Lucas Family Foundation. Special thanks to Arsenal–Institut für Film und Videokunst.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriter-director Luiz Sérgio Person’s debut feature is a masterly vision of existential unrest in Saõ Paulo amid the mass industrialization of the 1960s. This bracingly modernist, puzzlelike film follows Carlos (Walmor Chagas), a middle-class auto-industry employee, as he questions his relationships with romantic partners past and present (played by Darlene Glória, Ana Esmeralda, and Eva Wilma), as well as his participation in the transforming economy. A kind of city symphony filled with striking, dynamic images of a rapidly changing urban landscape, \u003cem\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/em\u003e is a cry of rebellion against a suffocating push to modernize, and one of the landmark works of Brazilian cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated \u003cem\u003ewas restored in 2025 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata, Cinemateca Brasileira, and JLS Facilidades Sonoras–Estúdio JLS, in association with Cinemateca Brasileira, Lauper Films Ltda, and the family of Luiz Sérgio Person. Funding was provided by the Hobson\/Lucas Family Foundation. Special thanks to the Italian Institute of Culture in São Paulo.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Woman with the Knife\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEqual parts symbolist psychodrama and shamanic ghost story, \u003cem\u003eThe Woman with the Knife\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a surreal investigation of fractured identity. The sole feature by trailblazing Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori stars the writer-director himself as a bourgeois intellectual whose life is thrown into turmoil after he experiences a disturbing vision of a mysterious, knife-wielding woman—the beginning of a crisis that forces him to confront his deep-seated sexual repression and social alienation. Capturing the streetscapes of 1960s Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in New Wave–cool black and white, and set to a dreamy mix of American jazz and West African pop, this touchstone work of African cinema is a daring and complex journey into the postcolonial unconscious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Woman with the Knife \u003cem\u003ewas restored in 2019 by the Cineteca di Bologna and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, at L'Immagine Ritrovata. This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers, and UNESCO, in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema. Funding was provided by the Hobson\/Lucas Family Foundation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForged in rhythm, ritual, and mysticism, this masterwork by Iranian New Wave legend Bahram Beyzaie is a transfixing allegory shot through with the fear of a mysterious, encroaching force. When a boat carrying a severely wounded man (Khosrow Shojazadeh) drifts onto the shore of a small coastal village, most of the community regards him with suspicion. But the quietly confident Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi), whose husband disappeared a year ago at sea, finds herself drawn to the outsider.\u003cem\u003e The Stranger and the Fog,\u003c\/em\u003e which was banned in Iran following the 1979 revolution, is a film of overwhelming power, possessing both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog\u003cem\u003e was restored in 2023 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Bahram Beyzaie. Funding provided by the Hobson\/Lucas Family Foundation. Special thanks to Ehsan Khoshbakht and Mojdeh Shamsaie.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eTWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 4K digital restorations of \u003cem\u003eMortu nega; São Paulo, Incorporated; The Woman with the Knife; \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog,\u003c\/em\u003e all overseen by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew introductions by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interviews featuring director Flora Gomes (on \u003cem\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/em\u003e) and filmmaker Walter Salles (on \u003cem\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/em\u003e) and excerpted archival interviews with director Bahram Beyzaie and actor Parvaneh Massoumi (on \u003cem\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew documentary featuring Timité Bassori, director of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman with the Knife; \u003c\/em\u003eactor Bienvenu Neba; cameraman N’Gouan Kacou; and art historian Yacouba Konaté\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Return of Amílcar Cabral\u003c\/em\u003e (1976), a documentary short codirected by Gomes, in a new 4K restoration by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUpdated English subtitle translations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: Essays by critics and scholars Yasmina Price, Fábio Andrade, Chrystel Olouköi, and Ehsan Khoshbakht\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew cover by \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCentury.Studio\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Criterion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67748470391094,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7520\/9270\/files\/2OiufWHYlNkuwhrzH3nysNRtQl9oDD_large_924d6189-624f-4873-b957-59d4a8e2d448.jpg?v=1792190033","url":"https:\/\/outrundvd.com.au\/products\/martin-scorseses-world-cinema-project-no-6-blu-ray-us","provider":"OutrunDVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}