Redenção Sangrenta (The Breaking Point, 1950) é o destaque de agosto da Criterion Collection.
O filme dirigido por Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) já saiu por aqui no quarto volume da coleção Film Noir da Versátil. É uma adaptação do livro To Have and Have Not, de Ernest Hemingway, que já havia sido adaptado anteriormente por Howard Hanks em Uma aventura na Martinica.
Meantime (1984), filme inglês feito pra TV , foi dirigido por Mike Leigh (Segredos e Mentiras) e conta com jovens Gary Oldman e Tim Roth. Não há registro de já ter saído em home vídeo no Brasil.
Gary Oldman também está em Sid e Nancy, do diretor inglês Alex Cox (Repo Man – A Onda Punk). O filme, baseado na relação do baixista da banda punk Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, com a groupie Nancy Spungen já saiu por aqui em DVD pela Flashstar.
Já O Espião Trapalhão (Hopscotch, 1980), dirigido por Ronald Neame (O Homem Que Nunca Existiu) com Walter Matthau e La poison (1951) do diretor francês Sacha Guitry nunca saíram em DVD por estas bandas. Só em Blu-ray. Ha-há. Até parece.
The Breaking Point, de Michael Curtiz (EUA, 1950)
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with critic Alan K. Rode (Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film)
New piece featuring actor and acting instructor Julie Garfield on her father, actor John Garfield
New video essay by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou analyzing Curtiz’s methods
Excerpts from a 1962 episode of Today showing contents of the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West, Florida, including items related to To Have and Have Not, the novel on which The Breaking Point is based
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
Meantime, de Mike Leigh (Reino Unido, 1984)
New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker
New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael
Interview from 2007 with actor Tim Roth
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Sean O’Sullivan
Hopscotch, de Ronald Neame (EUA, 1980)
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Interviews from 2002 with director Ronald Neame and writer Brian Garfield
Walter Matthau in a 1980 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show
Trailer and teaser
Optional broadcast television audio track for family viewing
PLUS: An essay by critic Glenn Kenny
La poison, de Sacha Guitry (França, 1951)
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with filmmaker Olivier Assayas on director Sacha Guitry’s influence on French cinema
On Life On-screen: Miseries and Splendour of a Monarch, a 60-minute documentary from 2010 on the collaboration of Guitry and Michel Simon
New English subtitle translation
More!
PLUS: An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and a 1957 obituary for Guitry by François Truffaut
Sid & Nancy, de Alex Cox (Reino Unido, 1986)
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
Two audio commentaries: one from 1994 featuring cowriter Abbe Wool, actors Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, cultural historian Greil Marcus, filmmakers Julien Temple and Lech Kowalski, and musician Eliot Kidd; the other from 2001 featuring cowriter-director Alex Cox and actor Andrew Schofield
England’s Glory, a 1987 documentary on the making of Sid & Nancy
Infamous 1976 Bill Grundy interview with the Sex Pistols on British television
Rare telephone interview from 1978 with Sid Vicious
Interviews with Vicious and Nancy Spungen from the 1980 documentary D.O.A.: A Right of Passage
Archival interviews and footage
More!
PLUS: An essay by author Jon Savage and a 1986 piece compiled by Cox about Vicious, Spungen, and the making of the film
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