Again to simplify, so far we have the following two upcoming 4K releases and what companies have said about them- As is stated more than once in the extra features, Possession is a film you either love or hate, and if you loathe it then too bad because I adore every minute of the bold bugger. Gorgeously directed and featuring two genuinely extraordinary central performances, it's a unique and almost unclassifiable film, part relationship drama, part horror, part political allegory, and a good deal more. Second Sight has done the film proud with this Blu-ray, with a solid transfer of the director's cut of the film supported by an excellent selection of top quality special features. Highly recommended. Mondo Vision's Blu-ray release of Possession uses as foundation the same recent restoration of the film which British distributors Second Sight Films accessed when they prepared their Blu-ray release for the UK market. However, the high-definition transfers the two releases use are not identical.

Screencaptures #32-33: Mondo Vision's DVD releases of Andrzej Zulawski's La femme publique, L'important c'est d'aimer, L'amour braque, and Szamanka. whoever translated the menu choices into English kept the Hebrew in an incorrect (and actually kind of laughable) left So, either this means the new release is, as you say, "director approved" with an asterisk, i.e. they use the old restauration as a baseline for their tinkering with the 4K transfer, or the French rights-holders are lying and claiming that he approved the 4K transfer. The film is perhaps most famous for a scene of Isabelle Adjani suffering a violently-animated miscarriage in a subway, which many continue to take out of context, treating it as humorous instead of horrifying. However, it plays a part in a larger story about the disintegration of two people, not just from each other, but from themselves as well. Amazing cinematography, incredible monster effects by Carlo Rambaldi, and a go-for-the-throat acting and story approach make Possession one of the most amazing pieces of filmmaking ever mounted. Whether you like the film or not, you won’t soon forget it. The above post explaination doesn't line up with LCQF's restoration notes which consulted multiple sources to get the color timing they landed on. Second sights explanation also doesn't say much other than instructing people that an OCN doesn't have a baked in color timing which is obvious for anyone who has worked with film negatives or digital raw filesThat said, director Ole Bornedal has a fine, if too precious, visual sense. Bornedal repeatedly uses an aerial had a much more thorough education in Hebrew than I ever did, had to provide the actual translations. But here's the That experience really fostered an extreme interest in that side of my genetic history, but without "formal" education

freely admits in his commentary is supposed to give the viewer the idea that "someone—or something—is watching us",And yeah, the Second Sight BD is based on the same transfer but is a bit brighter than the - in places quite dark - Mondo Vision. The differences aren't huge and they're certainly smaller than the difference between either of these and the LCQF master.

Repossessed - a visual comparison highlighting the key differences between the U.S. re-cut and the Director's Cut of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession. With English text. (13 min). So continues the descent into a nightmarish maze of jealousy, carnality devoid of satisfaction, insanity, terror and murder where identity and reality are almost impossible to distinguish. The generic, unlike previous video releases, was made from the original negative so it's beautiful anyway. A commentary-free look at how much or how little the Berlin locations used in the film have changed in the 31 years since the film was made.really weird stuff. That's it. Mom and Dad forget they're divorced and attempt to figure out what's going on, at response to seeing things like "Based on a true story", but The Possession is so far fetched and outlandish that It's finally happened: my extremely rudimentary knowledge of Hebrew has paid off. Instead of struggling to haltingly The Sounds of Possession - in this video interview, composer Andrzej Korzynski discusses his contribution to Andrzej Zulawski's Possession. The two gentlemen have collaborated on seven feature films. In Polish, with imposed English subtitles. (20 min).

will probably know, Hebrew is written and read right to left (as opposed to our language's left to right procedure), but A most engaging interview with composer Andrzej Korzynski, who recalls meeting director Zulawski at primary school ("we sat on the same bench and made trouble together") and his subsequent seven-film collaboration with him. Tantalising clips from three of Zulawski's films are included, with particular focus on his banned and nearly lost science fiction epic On the Silver Globe.Excluding some light banding that I spotted (the most obvious example being early into the film, in the sequence where Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani's characters meet in front of the apartment complex) as well as some low noise that occasionally pops up, the technical presentation of this once quite controversial film is indeed very impressive. It is also quite the revelation. There is an entirely new color scheme that apparently reinstates the type of look Andrzej Zulawski desired and all visual effects, most notably solarization enhancements, that were added to the U.S. re-cut version of the film are now completely removed. Needless to say, if you are familiar only with the U.S. re-cut version of Possession, more than likely you are going to be quite surprised by the look of this new Director's Cut of the film.