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(aka 'Through a Glass Darkly')

 

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Sweden 196
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While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, the father (Gunnar Björnstrand), along with Karin’s husband (Max von Sydow) and her younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent Karin’s harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring an astonishing lead performance by Andersson, Through a Glass Darkly presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near-disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by God’s intangible presence.

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Theatrical Release: October 16th, 1961 - Sweden

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Distribution

Tartan DVD

Region 0  - PAL

Criterion Collection - Spine # 209
Region 0 - NTSC
Criterion (Ingmar Bergman's Cinema) - Region FREE - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:25:42 (4% PAL speedup) 1:29:45 1:30:14.617
Video

137:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate:5.50 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

1.37:1 Original Aspect Ratio
Average Bitrate: 8.66
NTSC 704x480 29.97 f/s

1.37:1 - 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 33,727,697,791 bytes

Feature: 27,098,265,600 bytes

Video Bitrate: 35.67 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.

Tartan

 

Criterion

 

Criterion Blu-ray

 

Audio Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)

Swedish (Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono), DUB: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)

LPCM Audio Swedish 1152 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 1152 kbps / 24-bit
DUB:

Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps

Subtitles English, and none English and none English and none
Features Release Information:
Studio: Tartan Video

Aspect Ratio:
Standard - 1.37:1

 

Edition Details:
• Trailer/Advertisement for Tartan's 'The Ingmar Bergman Collection' - 2:53
• Stills Gallery - 5 poorly done stills
• Bergman on 'Winter Light' - 23 static pages of transcript and questions to Ingmar Bergman ( from 'Images - My Life In Film')
• Philip Strick Film Notes - 7 Static pages
• Filmographies of Bergman, Bjornstrand and Thulin


DVD Release Date: November 19th, 2001
Transparent Keep Case

Chapters 20

Release Information:
Studio: Criterion

Aspect Ratio:
Standard - 1.37:1


Edition Details:
• New high-definition digital transfer
• Exploring the film: Video discussion with Ingmar Bergman biographer Peter Cowie
• Essay by Peter Cowie
•Original theatrical trailer
• Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

DVD Release Date: August 19th, 2003
Box set

Chapters 18

 

Box Set includes the following films:
• Through a Glass Darkly, 1961 (91 minutes)
• Winter Light, 1962 (80 minutes)
• The Silence, 1963 (95 minutes)

• Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
• Number of discs: 4

Release Information:
Studio:
Criterion

 

1.37:1 - 1080P Dual-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 33,727,697,791 bytes

Feature: 27,098,265,600 bytes

Video Bitrate: 35.67 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• Ingmar Bergman Introduction (1:53)
• Exploring the Film (11:12)
• Harriet Andersson (8:37)
• Theatrical trailer (2:17)


Blu-ray Release Date: November 20th, 2018

Custom Blu-ray Case

Chapters 17

 

 

Comments:

NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

The Criterion Blu-ray of Through a Glass Darkly is part of their Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 100th Anniversary 30 Blu-ray Boxset (reviewed, as a work in-progress, HERE). See comparative captures, a listing of technical details, extras etc., on this page. As evidenced by the matched screen captures below - the 1080P is a significant upgrade (contrast, detail, shows more information in the frame etc.) - max'ed out bitrate, uncompressed audio and additional extras beyond the 2003 DVD. It starts with this source-text that states it was restored in 2015:

This looks and sounds pristine - the extras - a short Ingmar Bergman Introduction from 2003 with Swedish journalist Marie Nuyreod, the previous Peter Cowie Exploring the Film video from 2003 discussing the film's key themes plus, as a special guest at the 2012 Midnight Sun Film Festival in Finland, Harriet Andersson was interviewed by Ingmar Bergman biographer Foster Hirsch - this is a 8.5-minute excerpt accompanied by behind-the-scenes footage from Through a Glass Darkly. Lastly, is a theatrical trailer for the film.

NOTE: yes, this Blu-ray set is Region FREE!

 - Gary W. Tooze


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Criterion Collection - Spine # 209
Region 0 - NTSC
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