{"id":23272,"date":"2023-07-21T16:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23272"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:58:00","slug":"the-car-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/07\/21\/the-car-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The car in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dekalog DVD.<\/em><\/p>\n

Screen-shots from Kie\u015blowski’s Dekalog 3<\/em>, courtesy of my old Artificial Eye DVDs and the Arrow blu-ray set which arrived this morning. Watching the first couple of episodes on DVD earlier this week I was surprised to find that the picture quality was worse than I remembered\u2014scratches and cue marks all over the place\u2014and especially lacking after watching eight of Kie\u015blowski’s other films in high-definition. I ought to have bought the Arrow collection when it was first released but it didn’t seem really necessary at the time. The picture quality of these restored films is so good I’m tempted to start again from the beginning when I’ve reached the end of the cycle, although going through the horrors of Dekalog 5<\/em> twice in one week would be a bit much.<\/p>\n

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Dekalog blu-ray.<\/em><\/p>\n

Anyway, I recommend this set. (It’s also in the Criterion catalogue if you prefer their overpriced discs.) There’s been a spate of news and opinion pieces recently complaining about the current state of cinema, by which people mean American cinema since this is the only variety anyone is supposed to care about. With each fresh complaint all I can hear is John Lydon singing “Burn, Hollywood, burn”. It’s a big cinematic world out there, and “world cinema” is more than just a few shelves in an entertainment store.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Further reading: \u201cAnd So On\u201d: Kie\u015blowski\u2019s\u00a0Dekalog<\/em>\u00a0and the Metaphysics of the Everyday<\/a> by Paul Coates.<\/p>\n

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Dekalog DVD. Screen-shots from Kie\u015blowski’s Dekalog 3, courtesy of my old Artificial Eye DVDs and the Arrow blu-ray set which arrived this morning. Watching the first couple of episodes on DVD earlier this week I was surprised to find that the picture quality was worse than I remembered\u2014scratches and cue marks all over the place\u2014and … Continue reading “The car in the snow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[8558],"class_list":["post-23272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-krzysztof-kieslowski"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-63m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}