Setembro chega com mais um título de Hitchcock sai em versão definitiva pelo selo Criterion. Rebecca, a Mulher Inesquecível, de 1940, foi responsável pelo único Oscar de melhor filme do diretor inglês. Por aqui já saiu em DVDs e em um duvidoso Blu-ray da Continental. Sua única versão decente foi distribuida pela Versátil no box “O Cinema de Hitchcock”, inclusive com making of.

Festival, do diretor Murray Lerner (responsável pelo clássico Amazing Journey – The Story of The Who) mostra um festival de música folk que ocorreu entre 1963 e 1966, antes dos famosos festivais de Woodstock and Monterey Pop e conta com versões juvenis de Bob Dylan e Johnny Cash, entre muitos outros. Saiu aqui pela ST2.

Certas Mulheres, um drama recente (2016) do diretor Kelly Reichardt com Kristen Stewart e Laura Dern saiu aqui sem extras pela Sony.

Já o documentário David Lynch: The Art Life estreou nos cinemas do Brasil há poucos dias.

Para terminar, A Professora de Piano do Michael Haneke já saiu aqui há muitos anos pela obscura Movie Star.

Confira as capas e os extras de cada edição:

Rebecca, de Alfred Hitchcock (EUA, 1940)

Cover painting by Robert Hunt

• New 4K digital restoration

• Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff

• Isolated music and effects track

• New conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White

• New interview with film historian Craig Barron on Rebecca’s visual effects

• Daphne du Maurier: In the Footsteps of “Rebecca,” a 2016 French television documentary

• Making-of documentary from 2007

• Footage of screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests for actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Young

• Casting gallery with notes by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick

• Hitchcock interviewed by Tom Snyder on a 1973 episode of NBC’s Tomorrow

• Tomorrow interview with Fontaine from 1980

• Audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine

• Three radio versions of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles’s adaptation of the novel for the Mercury Theatre

• Theatrical rerelease trailer

• PLUS: An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected Selznick production correspondence, including with Hitchcock

Festival, de Murray Lerner (EUA, 1967)

New cover by Eric Skillman

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

• New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Murray Lerner

• New reconstruction and remastering of the monaural soundtrack using the original concert and field recordings, approved by Lerner and presented uncompressed on the Blu-ray

• When We Played Newport, a new program featuring archival interviews with Lerner, music festival producer George Wein, and musicians Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Buffy Saint-Marie, Pete Seeger, and Peter Yarrow

• Editing “Festival,” a new program featuring Lerner, associate editor Alan Heim, and assistant editor Gordon Quinn

• Selection of complete outtake performances, including Clarence Ashley, Horton Barker, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, and Odetta

• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Amanda Petrusich and artist bios by folk music expert Mary Katherine Aldin

Certain Women, de Kelly Reichardt (EUA, 2016)

Cover painting by Riccardo Vecchio

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

New 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Kelly Reichardt and cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

New interviews with Reichardt and executive producer Todd Haynes

New interview with Maile Meloy, author of the stories on which the film is based

Trailer

PLUS: An essay by critic Ella Taylor

David Lynch: The Art Life, de Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Rick Barnes and Jon Nguyen (EUA/Dinamarca, 2016)

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

High-definition digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

New interview with codirector Jon Nguyen

Trailer

PLUS: A new essay by critic Dennis Lim

The Piano Teacher, de Michael Haneke (França, 2001)

New cover by F. Ron Miller

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Michael Haneke, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

• New interview with Haneke

• New interview with actor Isabelle Huppert

• Selected-scene commentary from 2001 featuring Huppert

• Behind-the-scenes footage featuring Haneke and Huppert

• Trailer

• New English subtitle translation

• PLUS: An essay by scholar Moira Weigel

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