Häxan

 

Year: 1922

Time: 104 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 134

Release Date: Tuesday, 15 October 2019

MSRP: $39.95

 

Blu-ray

1 Disc

1.33:1

Musical Score DTS-HD MA Surround 5.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Music from the original Danish premiere, arranged by film music specialist Gillian Anderson and performed by the Czech Film Orchestra, presented in Dolby Digital 5.0   Commentary by Danish silent film scholar Casper Tybjerg   A short selection of outtakes   Bibliothèque diabolique, a photographic exploration of Christensen’s historical sources, created in 2001   Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968), the 76-minute version of Häxan narrated by author William S. Burroughs, with a soundtrack featuring violinist Jean-Luc Ponty   Director Benjamin Christensen’s introduction to the 1941 rerelease   An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara, remarks on the score by Gillian B. Anderson, and an essay by scholar Chloé Germaine Buckley