Product Details

• Actors: n, a
• Directors: Chantal Akerman
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Icarus Films Home Video
• DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002EEYL5A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,053 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "From the East" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NOT discontinued!, October 5, 2009

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It is not true that this film/DVD has been "Discontinued by the manufacturer." - it is out now. don't know why Amazon says this.

4.0 out of 5 stars Makes You Appreciate Criterion's Quality, August 13, 2011

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Great film with Chantal Akerman's wonderful style and eye for detail, marred by noisy visuals. I'd be interested to see if Criterion could clean this up at some point. It certainly deserves it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating experimental documentary on a unique moment in recent history, June 4, 2010

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This review is from: From the East (DVD)

This 1993 film by Chantal Akerman resembles some of her best early experimental work from the 1970s, especially `Hotel Monterey'. This is a truly non-narrative film. Just a series of images from across Russia; often slow, amazingly long tracking shots (probably made from a car, but somehow rock steady), intercut with some long stationary wide angle shots, and shots of people in rooms, clearly staged. There's no dialogue and almost no music, only the incidental sounds of the place being photographed.

The film is clearly a comment on how lost Russia was at that moment in history after communism fell - a lifetime of one ideology was suddenly gone, and nothing new had yet taken it's place. We see it in the faces -- every person looks like they're waiting for something. The only problem for me was the length. At 110 minutes both images and ideas, terrific though they were, started to feel repetitive.