Janus Contemporaries: Anselm

[domino harvey]

TK

[denti alligator]

Can’t tell if this includes a 3D Blu-ray, but I hope it does. Two BD discs suggests yes.

[domino harvey]

The email announcing the release says it does

Shot in 6K resolution, and presented theatrically and on Blu-ray in 3D

[denti alligator]

Right. It has been presented theatrically and on Blu-ray in 3D (in Europe). I expected something like what they put for special features on the Pina page: “ presented on the two-disc Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D special edition”

[criterionsnob]

I was wondering how they'd handle this one. Glad it's getting a 3D release, even though I can no longer play 3D discs with my current setup.

[CSM126]

Can’t tell if this includes a 3D Blu-ray, but I hope it does. Two BD discs suggests yes.

Nah, Wim Wenders rambled for six hours during his interview and they had to give it its own disc.

[ryannichols7]

pretty random this doesn't release the same day as Perfect Days

[denti alligator]

I thought this was a stunning film, though I'm not sure how well it would work without the 3D element, which Wenders uses expertly, frequently moving the camera to create an even more pronounced sense of multilayered space. Visually, it is consistently engaging, and at times jaw-dropping. As a documentary, it's not doing anything new, though I liked that Wenders lets the works dominate (more so than Kiefer himself) and does a lot to emphasize their scale (which is, um, extraordinary). The reenacted bits are minimal and nicely done. When there is talking, it's Kiefer we mostly hear, the majority of it from archival interviews, smartly displayed on period appropriate televisions. I'm so glad they released this in 3D.

[yoshimori]

What the Teeth said! I typically avoid Wenders, but the 3D compositions here are the most impressive I've seen, especially the "flat" ones, ones that work against the grain of the entire history of 3D cinematography.

[denti alligator]

Great observation. I hadn't even noticed it--but it's true that he gives us these incredible shots of paintings, which are flat surfaces (to the degree that Kiefer's painting can be called flat).

[yoshimori]

I was especially thinking of shots like these, where the 3D relatively subtly enhances the sense of space.

[Michael Kerpan]

We finally got to see this at home and NOT in 3-D -- but still felt it was fantastic. Perhaps my wife and I "cheated" because we have seen as much Kiefer work as we could manage to find -- "live and in person" -- so we could apply our real-life 3-D observations to what we saw in 2D. Ifound Wenders' film very evocative and even magnificent in giving one a feel for experiencing Kiefer's work.

I am still grateful that I got to see the Kiefer exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago back in 1987-88. (I worked downtown -- so I visited this more than once). Not a fan, in general, of "contemporary" art -- but Kiefer's work has been my one big exception.