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Haxan: Criterion Collection

Haxan: Criterion Collection

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 Actors: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt, Tora Teje, John Andersen
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Language: MUSIC : DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A
Aspect Ratio: 1.34:1
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Orig Release Date: 1922
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 10/15/2019
Run Time: 106 Min.
Special Features:
  • Introduction - director Benjamin Christensen filmed this short introduction to Haxan in 1941. In Danish, with optional English subtitles. (9 min, 1080i).
  • The Score - information about the recent score that film music specialist Gillian Anderson recorded with the Czech Film Orchestra in Prague in June 2001. Text format.
  • Witchcraft Through the Ages - an alternate version of Haxan which was released in 1968. It represents one of several cinematic collaborations between Antony Balch, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs, who performed the voiceover narration of the film. Daniel Humair composed the jazz score, which features, among others, Jean-Luc Ponty on violin. English Dolby Digital 1.0. Not subtitled. (77 min, 1080p).
  • Bibilioteque diabolique - in this program, film scholar Casper Tybjerg focuses on some of the historical sourced that Benjamin Christensen used while preparing Haxan. The program was produced for Criterion in 2011. With text description in English. (15 min, 1080p).
  • Outtakes - presented here is footage that comes from a reel of test shots for various Benjamin Christensen films which was collected by cinematographer Johan Ankerstjerne. (5 min, 1080i).
  • Commentary - film scholar Casper Tybjerg recorded this audio commentary for Criterion's DVD release of Haxan in 2001. In English.
    • 1. An introduction to Benjamin Christensen
    • 2. Earlier films
    • 3. Blind Justice and Sing Sing
    • 4. A fictional documentary?
    • 5. An artistic argument
    • 6. Historical sources
    • 7. The witch trials
    • 8. The Hammer of Witches
    • 9. Special effects
    • 10. Seventy-five broomsticks
    • 11. The cast
    • 12. "Much nakedness"
    • 13. International reaction
    • 14. The 1941 rerelease
    • 15. Surreal episodes
    • 16. No "plot"
    • 17. An early auteur
    • 18. Later films
    • 19. Later films continued
    • 20. Jean-Martin Charcot
    • 21. "Just once in a lifetime"
  • Booklet - 34-illustrated booklet featuring an essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, remarks on the score by Gillian Anderson, an essay by scholar Chloé Germaine Buckley, and technical credits.


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