THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS
Adapting the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter lends his trademark unnerving dialogue and air of creeping menace to this spellbinding study of power, control, and the frighteningly thin line between pleasure and pain. Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread by the elegantly gliding tracking shots of cinematographer Dante Spinotti, lush score by Angelo Badalamenti, and carefully controlled direction of Paul Schrader, who choreographs a mesmerizing pas de quatre of sustained erotic and emotional tension.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
* New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Dante Spinotti, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New interviews with Spinotti, director Paul Schrader, actor Christopher Walken, and editor Bill Pankow
* Interviews from 1981 and 2001 with novelist Ian McEwan and actor Natasha Richardson
* Trailers
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* PLUS: An essay by critic Maitland McDonagh
1990 * 104 minutes * Color * Monaural * 1.66:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 7/21/20
STREET 8/18/20
CAT. NO. CC3179BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-751-4
UPC 7-15515-25031-3
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 7/21/20
STREET 8/18/20
CAT. NO. CC3180DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-752-1
UPC 7-15515-25041-2
THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
* New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Volker Schlöndorff and producer Eberhard Junkersdorf, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
* Interview from 2002 with directors Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta
* Interview from 2002 with director of photography Jost Vacano
* Excerpts from a 1977 documentary on author Heinrich Böll
* Trailer
* PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin
1975 * 106 minutes * Color * Monaural * In German with English subtitles * 1.66:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 7/7/20
STREET 8/4/20
CAT. NO. CC3174BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-746-0
UPC 7-15515-24981-2
TONI
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
* New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* Audio commentary from 2006 featuring critics Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate
* Introduction by director Jean Renoir from 1961
* Episode of Cinéastes de notre temps from 1967 on Renoir, directed by Jacques Rivette and featuring a conversation with actor Charles Blavette about the film
* New video essay about the making of Toni by film scholar Christopher Faulkner
* New English subtitle translation
* PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
1935 * 84 minutes * Black & White * Monaural * In French with English subtitles * 1.37:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 7/28/20
STREET 8/25/20
CAT. NO. CC3177BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-749-1
UPC 7-15515-25011-5
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 7/28/20
STREET 8/25/20
CAT. NO. CC3178DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-750-7
UPC 7-15515-25021-4
TOWN BLOODY HALL
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
* New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Chris Hegedus, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New interview with Hegedus
* Audio commentary from 2004 featuring Hegedus and author Germaine Greer
* Footage from a 2004 celebration of the film, which brought together participants Greer, Jacqueline Ceballos, and Jill Johnston and directors Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
* Appearance from 1971 on The Dick Cavett Show by author Norman Mailer, promoting his book The Prisoner of Sex
* Archival interviews with Greer and Mailer
* English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
* PLUS: An essay by film critic Melissa Anderson
1979 * 85 minutes * Color * Monaural * 1.33:1 aspect ratio
BLU-RAY EDITION
SRP $39.95
PREBOOK 7/21/20
STREET 8/18/20
CAT. NO. CC3175BD
ISBN 978-1-68143-747-7
UPC 7-15515-24991-1
DVD EDITION
SRP $29.95
PREBOOK 7/21/20
STREET 8/18/20
CAT. NO. CC3176DDVD
ISBN 978-1-68143-748-4
UPC 7-15515-25001-6