Dawson City - Frozen Time
[Blu-Ray]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Named as one of the best films of 2017 by more than 100 critics worldwide, Dawson City: Frozen Time pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of over 500 nitrate film prints dating from the early 1900s. Discovered buried deep in the permafrost beneath Dawson City, a former Klondike gold rush town, the story they reveal and Morrison's haunting found-footage documentary links that gold rush town to the dawn of cinema and the rise of the modern age. Bill Morrison's incredible film conjures the birth of the modern age through these unearthed newsreels, old silent movies (in some cases, the only copies in existence of films by D.W. Griffith and Tod Browning, among others) and documentary images of the town to create a unique kaleidoscope of cinema and history. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS * Dawson City Frozen Time presented from a new 4K master * New and exclusive interview with filmmaker Bill Morrison * Dawson City: Postscript * Short film The Letter * Selections from the Dawson Film Find: * British Canadian Pathé News 1919 (includes 1919 World Series), * International News Vol. 1, Issue 52, 1919 * The Montreal Herald Screen Magazine 1919 * Pathé's Weekly #17, 1914 * The Butler and the Maid, Thomas A. Edison Inc., 1912 * Brutality, D.W. Griffith, Biograph Company, 1912 * The Exquisite Thief, r.2, director, Tod Browning, 1919 * The Girl of the Northern Woods, Thanhouser, 1910 * Booklet featuring a new essay on the film. * Trailer * English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. * Region Free Blu-ray (A/B/C) * DTS-HD 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Stereo 24-bit LPCM audio options. REVIEW In addition to being filled with as many twists and turns as a first-rate suspense thriller, Dawson City is packed with near-metaphysical intimations, both awe-inspiring and humbling... an instantaneously recognizable masterpiece. --Glenn Kenny, New York Times The true magic that Dawson City captures is, simply, the mystery of film itself: a medium that turned people into shadows that burned brighter than life --Variety The thrilling documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time is indescribable not because it's ambiguous (it's totally straightforward) but because it does so many things so beautifully it is hard to know where to begin --Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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