Our recent post about the colour-correction of POSSESSION has prompted a lot of interesting discussion here and elsewhere. Our post facility have been working with director Andrzej Zulawski on a shot-by-shot basis, so here's some more detail;

That is also what makes me wonder about Umbrella's statements. I have NEVER, not even once, in none of the boards and groups, heard or read anything about Zulawski approving a new 4K transfer before his death. All everybody has ever said is that he approved the previous 2K transfers before he died. That is it.

Possession: Other Editions

thinks Dad is abusing little Em, but you just know in your heart of hearts that after a few long, doleful looks, she'll A difficult film to encapsulate in trailer form and I'm not sure this rather scattershot one nails it. It also shows way too much of the creature. summary even be tempted to slightly believe that it is based on anything other than the fanciful imagination of a screenwriter (or Movies featuring the important sounding imprimatur "Based on a True Story" or the like would seem to have a higher

had a much more thorough education in Hebrew than I ever did, had to provide the actual translations. But here's the

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Audio Commentary - co-producer Frederic Tuten recalls his work with director Andrzej Zulawski on Possession and offers his interpretation of the film's complex message. (The Polish director views Possession as an autobiographical film, but Mr. Tuten's take on it is rather different). There is plenty of interesting information about the trips that were made to West Berlin, where the film was shot, Isabelle Adjani's performance and her image in Europe after the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, etc. Mr. Tuten also shares some very interesting information about a project with Nastassja Kinski that never materialized, etc. Also contributing to this commentary is biographer Dan Bird. In English, not subtitled. The generic, unlike previous video releases, was made from the original negative so it's beautiful anyway. course the film never really makes anything very clear). Anyone who has ever attended a Lubavitcher service will

As is stated more than once in the extra features, Possession is a film you either love or hate, and if you loathe it then too bad because I adore every minute of the bold bugger. Gorgeously directed and featuring two genuinely extraordinary central performances, it's a unique and almost unclassifiable film, part relationship drama, part horror, part political allegory, and a good deal more. Second Sight has done the film proud with this Blu-ray, with a solid transfer of the director's cut of the film supported by an excellent selection of top quality special features. Highly recommended. Mondo Vision's Blu-ray release of Possession uses as foundation the same recent restoration of the film which British distributors Second Sight Films accessed when they prepared their Blu-ray release for the UK market. However, the high-definition transfers the two releases use are not identical. I would think that David M. is probably the ultimate authority on how it should look, since according his post linked above, he actually sat down with Zulawski in Poland to finish off the grading of the previous transfer. the same thing, rather ineptly it must be stated, with Orthodox Judaism (I'm assuming the Jews on display here areScreencaptures #32-33: Mondo Vision's DVD releases of Andrzej Zulawski's La femme publique, L'important c'est d'aimer, L'amour braque, and Szamanka. I know there's been controversy with this film in the past. Weren't there two distinctly different HD grades supervised and/or approved by the director or am I misremembering? been opened! It's just patently ridiculous, an insult to both folklore and religion in one fell swoop.