The Double Life of Véronique (BLU-RAY EDITION)
This ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition remains one of the most beloved films of Krzysztof Kieslowski (Decalogue, the Three Colors trilogy). Irène Jacob (Red, Othello) is incandescent as both Weronika, a Polish choral soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. Though unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond, which Kieslowski details in gorgeous reflections, color, and movement. The Double Life of Véronique is an unforgettable symphony of feeling.
1991 • 97 minutes • Color • Stereo • In Polish and French with English subtitles • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Annette Insdorf, author of Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Three short documentaries by Kieslowski: Factory (1970), Hospital (1976), and Railway Station (1980)
• The Musicians (1958), a short film by Kieslowski’s teacher Kazimierz Karabasz
• Kieslowski—Dialogue (1991), a documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieslowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of this film
• 1966–1988: Kieslowski, Polish Filmmaker, a 2005 documentary tracing the director’s work in Poland, from his days as a student through The Double Life of Véronique
• Video interviews with actress Irène Jacob, cinematographer Sławomir Idziak, and composer Zbigniew Preisner
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Romney and selections from Kieslowski on Kieslowski
TITLE: The Double Life of Véronique (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1977BD
UPC: 7-15515-06771-3
ISBN: 978-1-60465-384-7
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/4/11
STREET: 2/1/11
AMARCORD (BLU-RAY EDITION)
This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini (La strada, Nights of Cabiria, 8½), satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord is one of cinema’s most delightful treasures.
1973 • 123 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary by film scholars Peter Brunette and Frank Burke
• Fellini’s Homecoming, a forty-five-minute documentary on director Federico Fellini’s complicated relationship to his hometown and past
• Video interview with star Magali Noël
• Fellini’s drawings of characters in the film
• Felliniana, a presentation of ephemera devoted to Amarcord
• Archival audio interviews with Fellini and his friends and family, by film critic Gideon Bachmann
• Restoration demonstration
• Deleted scene
• American release trailer
• Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by scholar Sam Rohdie, author of Fellini Lexicon, and the full text of Fellini’s 1967 essay “My Riminiâ€
TITLE: Amarcord (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1983BD
UPC: 7-15515-06831-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-390-8
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/11/11
STREET: 2/8/11
STILL WALKING – BD & DVD
The lyrical, profoundly moving Still Walking is the most personal work to date from contemporary Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (Maborosi, After Life, Nobody Knows). Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family’s entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys. Featuring vivid, heartrending performances and a gentle naturalism that harks back to the director’s earlier, documentary work, Still Walking is an extraordinary portrayal of the ties that bind us.
2008 • 114 minutes • Color • 2.0 surround • In Japanese with English subtitles • 1.85:1 aspect ratio
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Hirokazu Kore-eda and director of photography Yutaka Yamazaki, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New video interviews with Kore-eda and Yamazaki
• Making “Still Walkingâ€
• Trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim and recipes for the food prepared in the film
TITLE: Still Walking (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1975BD
UPC: 7-15515-06751-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-382-3
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/11/11
STREET: 2/8/11
TITLE: Still Walking (DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1976D
UPC: 7-15515-06761-4
ISBN: 978-1-60465-383-0
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/11/11
STREET: 2/8/11
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick (The Ladykillers), Burt Lancaster (Brute Force, The Leopard) stars as barbaric Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis (Some Like It Hot, Spartacus) as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent he ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets (Notorious, Bigger Than Life) and Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music) and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe (The Thin Man, Yankee Doodle Dandy), Sweet Smell of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.
1957 • 96 minutes • Black & White • Monaural • 1.66:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• New audio commentary by film scholar James Naremore
• Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, a 1986 documentary featuring interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and more
• James Wong Howe: Cinematographer, a 1973 documentary about the Oscar-winning director of photography, featuring lighting tutorials with Howe
• New video interview with film critic and historian Neil Gabler (Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity) about legendary columnist Walter Winchell, inspiration for the character J. J. Hunsecker
• New video interview with filmmaker James Mangold about Mackendrick, his instructor and mentor
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Gary Giddins, two short stories by Ernest Lehman featuring the characters from the film, notes about the film by Lehman, and an excerpt from Mackendrick’s book On Film-making
TITLE: Sweet Smell of Success (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1979BD
UPC: 7-15515-06791-1
ISBN: 978-1-60465-386-1
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/25/11
STREET: 2/22/11
TITLE: Sweet Smell of Success (2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1980D
UPC: 7-15515-06801-7
ISBN: 978-1-60465-387-8
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/25/11
STREET: 2/22/11
FISH TANK – BD & DVD
British director Andrea Arnold (Red Road) won the Cannes Jury Prize for the searing and invigorating Fish Tank, about a fifteen-year-old girl, Mia (electrifying newcomer Katie Jarvis), who lives with her mother and sister in the depressed housing projects of Essex. Mia’s adolescent conflicts and emerging sexuality reach boiling points when her mother’s new boyfriend (a lethally attractive Michael Fassbender [Hunger, Inglourious Basterds]) enters the picture. In her young career, Arnold has already proven herself to be a master of social realism (evoking the work of Mike Leigh and Ken Loach), investing her sympathetic portraits of dead-end lives with a poetic, earthy sensibility all her own. Fish Tank heralds the official arrival of a major new filmmaker.
2009 • 122 minutes • Color • Surround • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Andrea Arnold, director of photography Robbie Ryan, and editor Nicolas Chaudeurge, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• All three of Arnold’s short films: Milk (1998), Dog (2001), and the Oscar-winning Wasp (2003)
• New video interview with actor Kierston Wareing
• Interview with actor Michael Fassbender from 2009
• Audition footage
• Stills gallery by on-set photographer Holly Horner
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ian Christie
TITLE: Fish Tank (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1947BD
UPC: 7-15515-06501-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-354-0
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/25/11
STREET: 2/22/11
TITLE: Fish Tank (DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1946D
UPC: 7-15515-06491-0
ISBN: 978-1-60465-353-3
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/25/11
STREET: 2/22/11
SENSO – BD & DVD
This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti (Le notti bianche, The Leopard) stars Alida Valli (The Third Man, Eyes Without a Face) as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, amid the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant, played by Farley Granger (Rope, Strangers on a Train). Gilded with fearless performances, ornate costumes and sets, and a rich classical soundtrack, Visconti’s operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust from one of the cinema’s great sensualists.
1954 • 123 minutes • Color • Monaural • In Italian with English subtitles • 1.33:1 aspect ratio
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, created in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• The Making of “Senso,†a new documentary featuring Rotunno, assistant director Francesco Rosi, costume designer Piero Tosi, and Caterina D’Amico, daughter of screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico and author of Life and Work of Luchino Visconti
• Viva VERDI, a new documentary on Visconti, Senso, and opera featuring Italian film scholar Peter Brunette, Italian historian Stefano Albertini, and author Wayne Koestenbaum
• The Wanton Countess, the rarely seen English-language version of the film
• Visual essay by film scholar Peter Cowie
• Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti, a 1966 BBC special exploring Visconti’s parallel masteries of cinema, theater, and opera direction
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker and author Mark Rappaport and an excerpt from actor Farley Granger’s autobiography, Include Me Out
TITLE: Senso (BLU-RAY EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1981BD
UPC: 7-15515-06811-6
ISBN: 978-1-60465-388-5
SRP: $39.95
PREBOOK: 1/25/11
STREET: 2/22/11
TITLE: Senso (2-DVD EDITION)
CAT. NO: CC1982D
UPC: 7-15515-06821-5
ISBN: 978-1-60465-389-2
SRP: $29.95
PREBOOK: 1/25/11
STREET: 2/22/11