Don’t Look Now Comes to Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection
Steve Barton
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February is looking like a good time to be a horror fan who’s looking to expand his/her Blu-ray collection. Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 classic Don’t Look Now is getting the Criterion treatment next year when the film hits DVD and Blu-ray on February 10th.
Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as its explicit eroticism and unforgettable denouement, one of the great endings in horror history.
Special Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Nicolas Roeg, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between the film’s editor, Graeme Clifford, and film writer Bobbie O’Steen
- “Don’t Look Now,” Looking Back, a short 2002 documentary featuring Roeg, Clifford, and cinematographer Anthony Richmond
- Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
- Something Interesting, a new documentary on the writing and making of the film, featuring interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and co-screenwriter Allan Scott
- Nicolas Roeg: The Enigma of Film, a new documentary on Roeg’s style, featuring interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
- Q&A with Roeg at London’s Ciné Lumière from 2003
- Trailer
- An essay by film critic David Thompson
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