The Criterion Collection has sent us a clip from an exclusive interview with Bette Midler, which appears on the new Blu-ray release of Mark Rydell's The Rose.
You can see our listing and review of this release here.
Synopsis: Bette Midler exploded onto the screen with her take-no-prisoners performance in this quintessential film about fame and addiction from director Mark Rydell. Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road. Incisively scripted and beautifully shotby Vilmos Zsigmond, with assistance on the dazzling concert scenes by a host of other world-class cinematographers, including Conrad L. Hall, László Kovács, Owen Roizman, and Haskell Wexlerthis is a sensitively drawn and emotionally overwhelming melodrama that made the popular singer into a movie star as well.