The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 Rating: Release Date: 01 August, 2000 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $23.96 You SAVE: $5.99!

The Brothers Quay Collection: Ten Astonishing Short Films 1984-1993 Reviews

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Great Films, Terrible DVD
I just wanted to leave a quick note about the quality of this DVD.
While the films in the collection are great for the most part, as a few others have noted, the DVD menu has severe problems which at best will present annoying noise on the main menu, and at worst will actually prevent you from viewing some of the content.
I find it hard to believe that this disc was produced with such low attention to quality.

Eye candy, brain candy, candy left out for the nightmares
It's nice to have so many Quay shorts crammed together onto one tape, though some of their early films ("Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer" especially) tend to get a bit tedious unless you're really in the mood. I'm sure label/contract nonsense precluded them from including some of their music videos -- the Michael Penn and his Name is Alive sequences would have rounded this out wonderfully. The high points here -- "The Street of Crocodiles" and "The Epic of Gilgamesh" -- are so unlike anything else ever done, yet somehow so familiar, that they defy description. The are like a glimpse into the dreaming self, steeped in chittering dangers, endlessly self-elongating shadows and an Eastern European/Central Asian musical sadness so rich and deep, and so strangely flavored, redolent with the mixed smells of ancient motor oil, saffron, cinnamon, dried blood, sulphur and woodsmoke. A peek into something we all are but have not yet given a name to. Haunting, mesmerizing, creepy as hell, these films will stay with you for days. The dance of the screws in "The Street of Crocodiles" is especially jarring -- so visually logical when it's happening right before your eyes, yet nothing you'd ever have thought of before.

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