LEADER 00000ngma 2200433Ka 4500 001 166291207 005 20070824 TAPE OCLC0824: 0054 007 vf cbahou 008 070827s1988 gw 096 vlarm 009 Reclvl: f Addate: 070827 Addid: OCL Moddate: 080606 Modid: XRF 035 (PFA-FILM)15022 035 GLADN17592903 040 CUY|beng|cCUY 041 1 arm|bger 090 |b0500-01-11438 245 00 Komitas|h[videorecording] /|cun film von Don Askarjan. 257 Belgium ; United Kingdom ; Germany. 260 Germany :|b[s.n.,|c1988] 300 1 videocassette of 1 (96 min.) (VHS NTSC) :|bsd., col. and b&w ;|c1/2 in. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CUY. 511 1 Samvel Ovasapian, Margarita Woskanjan, Onig Saadetian, Rev. Yeghishe Mougikian. 520 "This beautiful, enigmatic film draws its inspiration from the life of Komitas (b. 1869), an Armenian monk and composer who spent his last twenty years in mental hospitals after witnessing the Turks' slaughter of over two million of his countrymen in 1915. Filled with mad arrogance, the film is the polar opposite of a conventional biopic: it refuses logical connections and seems to be trying to depict its protagonist's state of mind, as a world whose sensuous presence manifests itself in every frame slowly trickles, drips, spills, topples or crumbles away. The hermetic style and slow pace of Komitas may alienate many-and its imagery will surely remind wags of the description Gene Hackman's character gives of an Eric Rohmer movie in Night Moves: 'like watching paint dry.' Yet the filmmaker's refusal to obey the rules of traditional narrative will earn the grudging respect of many viewers, particularly those moved by Askarian's belief that "all culture is created by hermits and recluses." And surely all spectators will reap rich rewards in the film's many startlingly beautiful images- one of the cameramen is the great Arvanitis, responsible for the stunning camerawork in so many of Angelopoulos' films (c.f. Landscape in the Mist)"--written by Peter Scarlet, 520 Pacific Film Archive program note. 538 VHS NTSC. 546 In German with English subtitles. 590 PFA 0500-01-11438. |aCONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2007/08 /22 Excellent condition. 655 7 Television.|2mim 655 7 Made for TV movies.|2mim 690 0 Belgian films. 690 0 British films. 690 0 Germany films. 690 German films. 700 1 Askarian, Don. 700 1 Ovaspian, Samvel. 700 1 Woskanjan, Margarita. 700 1 Saadetian, Onig. 700 1 Mougikian, Yeghishe. 935 GLADN17592903 941 0 PFA 0500-01-11438. PFA collection acquisition preview tape 2003/02/18 956 20140224|bPFA migration/merge load 957 OCLC xref loaded 20140309 994 02|bCUY