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Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray (Blu-Ray) - Criterion Collection Preorder
Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray (Blu-Ray) - Criterion Collection Preorder
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This preorder releases & ships 12/02/2025.
The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—Le retour à la raison, Emak bakia, L’étoile de mer, and Les mystères du château du dé—find the visionary artist experimenting with the limitless possibilities of montage, superimposition, distortion, and even the application of objects directly onto celluloid. Set here to an ethereal score by the Jim Jarmusch–Carter Logan collaboration SQÜRL, these cine-poems are optical carnival rides that surprise, delight, and unsettle with each tantalizing frame.
Film Info
- France
- 2023
- 70 minutes
- Black and White/Color
- 1.33:1
- French
- Spine #1291
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restorations of all four films, featuring a score by SQÜRL presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio
- Interview with Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, who form the avant-rock band SQÜRL
- Concert from 2023 featuring SQÜRL performing its semi-improvised score to Man Ray’s films
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by author Mark Polizzotti
New cover by Fred Davis
Credits
- Director
- Man Ray
- Executive producer
- Jim Jarmusch
- Executive producer
- Carter Logan
- Produced by
- Marieke Tricoire
- Produced by
- Julie Vez
- Music by
- SQÜRL
- Sound supervision
- Michaël Pierrard
- Live sound recording
- Ludovic Palabaud
- Live sound recording
- Louise Bardet
- Live sound recording
- Karl Samzun
- Sound editing
- Yasta-Louise Bardet
- Sound cleaning
- Cédric Culnaërt
- Mix
- Ludovic Palabaud
- Mix
- Matthieu Tertois
- Rerecording mix
- Randall Dunn
- Rerecording mix
- Tom Effinger
- Editing
- Lola Joyau
- Supervision of the English translation
- Héléne Maes
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