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DVD : Antonio Gaudi - Criterion CollectionIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $39.95 Amazon.com's Price: $35.99 You Save: $3.96 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Image Entertainment EAN: 0715515028325 Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled Label: Criterion Collection Manufacturer: Criterion Collection Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Criterion Collection Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 18, 2008 Running Time: 72 minutes Studio: Criterion Collection Theatrical Release Date: 1984 Sales Rank: 27406 MPN: IMEDCC1742D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852 1926) designed some of the world s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films of the second half of the twentieth century. Here, their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Less a documentary than a visual poem, Teshigahara s ANTONIO GAUDI takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí s truly spectacular architecture, including his massive still-unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia cathedral, in Barcelona. With camerawork as bold and sensual as the curves on his subject s organic surfaces, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film. Special Features * - New, restored high-definition digital transfer * - New video interview with architect Arata Isozaki * - Gaudí, Catalunya 1959, a short film by Hiroshi Teshigahara featuring footage from his first trip to Spain * - Monitor: Antonio Gaudí (1961), a short film essay by director Ken Russell * - VITA, a short film by Teshigahara on the sculpture work of his father, Sofu Teshigahara * - Original theatrical trailer * - New and improved English subtitle translation * - PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by art historian Dore Ashton, and reprinted writings by Hiroshi and Sofu Amazon.com: Creator of one of the most bizarre and organic styles in the history of architecture, Antonio Gaudi Cornet, Spain's national treasure, was blessed with not only the vision, but the patronage that allowed him to build his elaborate and surreal designs. With Antonio Gaudi, Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) gives a tour of the makings of Gaudi's world. Almost entirely without narration, Teshigahara guides us instead with an eerie score by Toru Takemitsu and a few subtitles. The film is more a poem than a documentary, but don't expect an approach similar to Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi. Instead we are given a quiet soundtrack that mixes Takemitsu's sparse score with the natural sounds surrounding Gaudi's structures, and a stationary camera presents the buildings as if they have sprouted: supports seem to magically erupt from the ground like roots, and our eyes are led through the textures and patterns of Gaudi's elaborate mosaic stone and brick designs. Visually revealing and comprehensive, Teshigahara leaves us with only one thing to do--to view Gaudi's amazing world with our own eyes. --Ted Sonnenschein Average Rating:
 Rating: - Exploring the Surreal Designs of Antonio Gaudí. Hiroshi Teshigahara's film offers a visually stunning window into the designs of Spanish Catalan architect, Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926). Gaudi is known for his unusual sculptural designs. Influenced by French architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, Gaudi incorporated nature's organic angles and curves into his highly-original buildings, interiors, and park designs. As Teshigahara reveals, Gaudi's creations--most notably the still-unfinished La Sagrada Família in Barcelona--are nothing less than spectacular, ... Read More Rating:  - an excellent look at a unique artistThis review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film Antonio Gaudí is a film about the fames Spanish Catalan architect, Antonio Gaudí, also known as Antoni Gaudí. This great artist designed many buildins in Barcelona way ahead of their time and his masterpice, a cathedral, Sagrada Família, is still incomplete. The film is largely silent with a musical track with occasional narration but shows his work in great detail and beauty. It was directed by famed Japanese ... Read More Rating:  - Gaudi Needs Some WordsThe two-disc set -- Antonia Gaudi -- is truly gorgeous. The slow and elegant tour of Barcelona's Gaudi collection is very satisfying visually. What is missing is any kind of voice-track. I was hoping to discover how he raised the money to build all those art works. What kind of developer would take a chance on him to bring back a profit on a big apartment complex? I also wanted to learn a bit more about his personal biography. I would have to give this one only two stars because it did not meet my personal ... Read More Rating: - gaudiIt is an excellent film and a very good portrait of our Gaudi, simple and deep as Gaudi was. Rating: - Two artistsThis two-DVD package is a must for Gaudi fanatics and casual appreciators of this innovative, conservative, mystical, cryptic architect of a century ago. His influence can be seen today in the works of Santiago Calatrava and many others. The original film (1984) by Teshighara should be watched by a viewer not prone to dozing off. It is mostly silent with some music and subtitles. Visually, it documents the great care, craftsmanship and sensuality in Gaudi's many building surfaces, surreal furniture, fixtures,ironwork, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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