Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project. No. 1, Touki bouki
(Blu-ray / DVD Combo)

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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Flr - VideoBLURAY WORLD WOLOF TOn Shelf
St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Movies & TVMOVIES WORLD MULTI MAROn Shelf

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Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013].
Format
Blu-ray / DVD Combo
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (148 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 DVD videodiscs.
Language
wol
ISBN
9781604658132, 1604658134, 9781604658149, 1604658142

Notes

General Note
Title from disc.
General Note
Originally part of a nine disc set titled Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 1 with four additional films.
General Note
The single Blu-ray disc and the set of two DVDs each contains the World Cinema Project's 2K digitally-restored versions of the feature films Touki bouki (89 min.) and Redes (59 min.) and a collection of special features.
General Note
Touki bouki: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.
General Note
Redes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1936.
General Note
Special features on Blu-ray disc and the two DVDs include new introductions to the films by World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese, a new interview with filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako about Touki bouki, and a new visual essay on Redes by filmmaker and writer Kent Jones; plus: a booklet featuring a foreword by Jones and essays on the films by Richard Porton and Charles Ramírez Berg.
Creation/Production Credits
Touki bouki: Director of photography, George Bracher ; editor, Siro Asteni.
Creation/Production Credits
Redes: Producer, Secretaría de Educatión Pública, Mexico City ; written by Agustín Velázquez Chávez, Paul Strand ; cinematographer, Paul Strand ; editors, Gunther von Fritsch, Emilio Gómez Muriel ; composer, Silvestre Revueltas.
Participants/Performers
Touki bouki: Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang, Christoph Colomb, Moustapha Toure, Aminata Fall, Ousseynou Diop.
Participants/Performers
Redes: Silvio Hernández [del Valle], Antonio Lara, Miguel Figueroa, Rafael Hinojosa, Felipe Rojas, David Valle González, Susana Ortiz Cobos, and the fishermen and neighbors of Alvarado.
Description
Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Description
Redes: "In this vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates a political awakening among him and his fellow laborers"--Container.
System Details
Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1 or 1.33:1) presentations; uncompressed monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
System Details
DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1 or 1.33:1) presentations; monaural.
Language
Touki bouki: In Wolof with optional English subtitles.
Language
Redes: In Spanish with optional English subtitles.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Scorsese, M., Diop Mambéty, D., Zinnemann, F., Gómez Muriel, E., Velásquez Chávez, A., Strand, P., Rodakiewicz, H., Niang, M., Niang, M., Colomb, C., Ture, M., Fall, A., Diop, O., Hernández, S., Lara, A., Figueroa, M., Hinojosa, R., Rojas, F., Gonzalez, D. V., Cobos, S. O., Revueltas, S., Sissako, A., & Jones, K. (2013). Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project (Dual-format edition, Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition.). Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Martin Scorsese et al.. 2013. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project. Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Martin Scorsese et al.. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project Criterion Collection, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Scorsese, Martin, et al. Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project Dual-format edition, Dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition., Criterion Collection, 2013.

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