The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Criterion Collection) [New Blu-ray]

Description: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Criterion Collection) [New Blu-ray] Title: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Criterion Collection) Format: Blu-ray Label: Criterion Collection Genre: Foreign-Italian, Drama UPC: 715515187510 Release Date: 2017 THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS - CRITERION COLLECTION A painterly and sensual immersion in late nineteenth-century Italian farm life, The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi (Il posto) lovingly focuses on four families working for one landowner on an isolated estate in the province of Bergamo. Filming on an abandoned farm for four months, Olmi adapted neorealist techniques to tell his story, enlisting local people to live as their own ancestors had, speaking in their native dialect on locations with which they were intimately familiar. Through the cycle of seasons, of backbreaking labor, love and marriage, birth and death, faith and superstition, Olmi naturalistically evokes an existence very close to nature, one that celebrates its beauty, humor, and simplicity but also acknowledges the feudal cruelty that governs it. Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1978, The Tree of Wooden Clogs is intimate in scale but epic in scope—a towering, heart-stirring work of humanist filmmaking.DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew 4K restoration, created in collaboration with The Film Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata and supervised by director Ermanno Olmi, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAlternate Italian-language soundtrackNew introduction by filmmaker Mike LeighErmanno Olmi: The Roots of the Tree, an hour-long episode of The South Bank Show from 1981, featuring an interview with Olmi on the film and a visit to the farm where it was shotNew program featuring cast and crew discussing the film at the Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy, in 2016Archival interviews with OlmiTrailerNew English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by film critic Deborah Young"FEATURING:Format: BLU-RAYLabel: The Criterion CollectionRelease Date: 02/07/2017Run Time: 186 minutesOriginal Year of Release: 1978FEATURES::ColorAudio: Uncompressed Monoral PCMIn BergamasqueWith English Subtitles1.33:1 Aspect RatioCopyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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