The Pied Piper (Deluxe Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [US] Alex Winter New video essays by film

New video essays by film critics Geoffrey O’Brien and Sheila O’Malley

In the year 2037

Bearing influences from the likes of Hitchcock

delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization

The Pied Piper (Deluxe Limited Edition) [Blu-ray] [US] Alex Winter New video essays by filmDirector Ji Bartas stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words. The rats are far more organic and