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IMCINE
Directed by: Felipe Cazals
One of Mexico’s most highly regarded works of political cinema for the audaciousness of its attack on the Catholic Church, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life massacre that occurred in 1968, eight years before the film’s release, when a group of urban university employees on a hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the isolated village of San Miguel de Canoa, who mistook them for communist revolutionaries. Intercutting depictions of the days in the workers’ lives leading up to their journey and footage from a fictional documentary about the village and the autocratic priest who governs it with the scenes of the atrocity itself, director Felipe Cazals (Las inocentes) creates a terrifying sense of menace, capped by a gruesome denouement. Adopting a gritty newsreel style, Canoa is a daring historical document and a visceral expression of horror.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
Spanish PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Introduction, Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- New introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
- New conversation between filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and Felipe Cazals
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano
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Release Credits
Producer: Kim Hendrickson
Artwork: Adam Maida
Release Notes on Restoration
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Canoa: A Shameful Memory is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. Supervised by director Felipe Cazals, this new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on an Oxberry wet-gate film scanner from the 35mm original camera negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film’s DRS while Digital Vision’s Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management.
The 35mm original soundtrack negative was transferred using the Chace Optical Sound Processor. The monaural soundtrack was then remastered; clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.
The 35mm original soundtrack negative was transferred using the Chace Optical Sound Processor. The monaural soundtrack was then remastered; clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.