Watch the 20th Anniversary Re-Release of the Landmark Film
"Wonderful! Thumbs Up!"
Roger Ebert - Siskel & Ebert
Roger Ebert - Siskel & Ebert
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"The stuff of moviemaking legend!"
Banning Eyre - The Boston Phoenix |
"Highly entertaining...profoundly moving!"
Rod Dreher - New York Post |
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"Utterly irresistable!"
Andy Klein - New Times Los Angeles |
20th Anniversary Re-Release Edition HD and 4K for the first time ever!
However, this is NOT a pristine digital restoration of the original film. This "re-master" gives audiences an experience as close to the original, gritty, grainy theatrical presentations as possible.
This is the film as it was seen by sold-out audiences around the world two decades ago: analog, imperfect and glorious.
Before the days of digital cinematography, Genghis Blues was shot primarily on analog, Hi-8 video. The camera masters were transferred to Betacam tapes for editing, and the final edited video master was then transferred to 35mm film for the film's presentation at the Sundance Film Festival and later for its theatrical release. Now, 20 years later, we have scanned one of the twelve original 35mm film release prints to make these unflinching, imperfect, HD and 4K re-masters of the landmark film.
This is the film as it was seen by sold-out audiences around the world two decades ago: analog, imperfect and glorious.
Before the days of digital cinematography, Genghis Blues was shot primarily on analog, Hi-8 video. The camera masters were transferred to Betacam tapes for editing, and the final edited video master was then transferred to 35mm film for the film's presentation at the Sundance Film Festival and later for its theatrical release. Now, 20 years later, we have scanned one of the twelve original 35mm film release prints to make these unflinching, imperfect, HD and 4K re-masters of the landmark film.
Critics called Genghis Blues:
"The stuff of moviemaking legend!"
Banning Eyre - The Boston Phoenix
"Utterly irresistable!"
Andy Klein - New Times Los Angeles
"Wonderful! Thumbs Up!"
Roger Ebert - Siskel & Ebert
"Highly entertaining...profoundly moving!"
Rod Dreher - New York Post
"The stuff of moviemaking legend!"
Banning Eyre - The Boston Phoenix
"Utterly irresistable!"
Andy Klein - New Times Los Angeles
"Wonderful! Thumbs Up!"
Roger Ebert - Siskel & Ebert
"Highly entertaining...profoundly moving!"
Rod Dreher - New York Post
In 1984, blind American bluesman Paul Pena heard something on the shortwave radio that would change his life forever. It was the sounds of one person singing three notes simultaneously. Pena had played with the greats B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and T. Bone Walker, but he'd never heard anything like this. He recorded the radio broadcast and spent the next ten years teaching himself the technique of what he would later discover is called "khoomei," or "throat-singing."
When singers from the birthplace of throat-singing, the remote lost land of Tuva deep in Siberia, came to America for the first time, they met Pena. Awed by his abilities, the Tuvans invited Pena to their homeland for a throat-singing competition. Despite Pena's talent and experience, nothing could have prepared him for what he would experience on his epic journey to Tuva.
When singers from the birthplace of throat-singing, the remote lost land of Tuva deep in Siberia, came to America for the first time, they met Pena. Awed by his abilities, the Tuvans invited Pena to their homeland for a throat-singing competition. Despite Pena's talent and experience, nothing could have prepared him for what he would experience on his epic journey to Tuva.