Come and See (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Klimov’s is the more in-depth interview, the filmmaker giving a history to the project (born out of a desire to show a true representation of the war after most films had been action-adventures) that spanned about 7 years because of censors and such having issues with the subject matter (his original title, Kill Hitler, was also a no-no). NOTE: This release has been encoded for regions A and B, so while Criterion has not officially released the film in the UK, this disc will play in region B players.

Criterion's Blu-ray release of Come and See is sourced from an outstanding 2K master that makes revisiting the film quite an experience. Not so in Elem Klimov’s 1985 film Come and See, in which relentless bombings and frenetic camerawork shatter the Belarusian countryside into an incoherent, fabulistic geography, and the invading Germans appear to coalesce out of the fog on the horizon like menacing apparitions. If your item does not have a tracking number assigned, it may mean it has been sent by standard parcel post with Australia Post and does not coming with a tracking number.It’s a cinematic simulacrum of the overwhelming, discombobulating sensory experience of war that would have an influence on virtually every war movie made after it. I also love the more recent, "The Painted Bird" (which still lacks a US physical release; I imported it), as it is a sort of sister film to this. The sound effects of rampant gunfire, bombing runs, explosions, and horrific screams are all robust and loud. To be clear, there are some absolutely unforgettable visuals, like the mass burning of the villagers, and they look very authentic).

Come and See’s frames are often choked with this fog—watching the film, one almost expects to see condensation on the screen’s surface—and Klimov fills the soundtrack with a kind of audio fog: the droning of bombers and surveillance planes, the whine of prolonged eardrum-ringing, an ambient and sparse score by Oleg Yanchenko.This new digital transfer was created in 2K resolution from the 35mm original camera negative at Mosfilm. dont think its as disturbing as others Ive watched (martyrs disturbed me more), but its a really good movie. It's a thunderstorm of horrifying noises that seem to never end and this mono track handles the nuanced sounds nicely, even though there isn't any surround or bass to accompany this track with. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.