{"product_id":"martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-6-blu-ray","title":"Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 6 (BLU-RAY) Coming to Our Shelves January 2027","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEstablished by Martin Scorsese in 2007, The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of more than seventy restorations of works by essential filmmakers. This collector’s set gathers four arresting and stylistically distinctive films, ranging from the politically charged to the mythical and dreamlike, from Guinea-Bissau (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Brazil (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), Côte d’Ivoire (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman with the Knife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), and Iran (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Each title is a significant contribution to the art form and a window onto a cinematic tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2\"\u003eFilms In This Set\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eA soulful, bottom-up portrait of a country finding its postcolonial identity, \u003cem\u003eMortu nega \u003c\/em\u003efollows the determined Diminga (Bia Gomes) as she journeys to the front lines in search of her soldier husband during the final days of Guinea-Bissau’s war for liberation from Portugal. After freedom is won, Diminga and her compatriots must maintain a steely resolve in the face of a host of daily challenges: accessing health care, navigating the state bureaucracy, and confronting a devastating drought. Directed with fierce commitment by Flora Gomes, a student of anticolonial leader Amílcar Cabral’s, \u003cem\u003eMortu nega\u003c\/em\u003e offers a clarion call for strength and healing through unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eWriter-director Luiz Sérgio Person’s debut feature is a masterly vision of existential unrest in Saõ Paulo amid the mass industrialization of the 1960s. This bracingly modernist, puzzlelike film follows Carlos (Walmor Chagas), a middle-class auto-industry employee, as he questions his relationships with romantic partners past and present (played by Darlene Glória, Ana Esmeralda, and Eva Wilma), as well as his participation in the transforming economy. A kind of city symphony filled with striking, dynamic images of a rapidly changing urban landscape, \u003cem\u003eSão Paulo, Incorporated\u003c\/em\u003e is a cry of rebellion against a suffocating push to modernize, and one of the landmark works of Brazilian cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Woman with the Knife\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEqual parts symbolist psychodrama and shamanic ghost story, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman with the Knife\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e delivers a surreal investigation of fractured identity. The sole feature by trailblazing Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori stars the writer-director himself as a bourgeois intellectual whose life is thrown into turmoil after he experiences a disturbing vision of a mysterious, knife-wielding woman—the beginning of a crisis that forces him to confront his deep-seated sexual repression and social alienation. Capturing the streetscapes of 1960s Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in New Wave–cool black and white, and set to a dreamy mix of American jazz and West African pop, this touchstone work of African cinema is a daring and complex journey into the postcolonial unconscious.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Stranger and the Fog\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"header__primarytitle\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForged in rhythm, ritual, and mysticism, this masterwork by Iranian New Wave legend Bahram Beyzaie is a transfixing allegory shot through with the fear of a mysterious, encroaching force. When a boat carrying a severely wounded man (Khosrow Shojazadeh) drifts onto the shore of a small coastal village, most of the community regards him with suspicion. But the quietly confident Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi), whose husband disappeared a year ago at sea, finds herself drawn to the outsider.\u003cem\u003e The Stranger and the Fog,\u003c\/em\u003e which was banned in Iran following the 1979 revolution, is a film of overwhelming power, possessing both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Criterion Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45243702444232,"sku":"CC3896BD","price":114.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/martinscorsesesworldcinemaproject6bd1.jpg?v=1793231418","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/products\/martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-6-blu-ray","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}