Cohen Media: 25th Anniversary 4K Restoration of Howards End Prepped for Blu-ray

Cohen Media will bring to Blu-ray its new 4K restoration of acclaimed director James Ivory's classic film Howards End (1992), starring Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Emma Thompson, and James Wilby. The release will be available for purchase on December 6.

Supplemental features to be included on the upcoming release have not yet been announced.

Restoration credits:

• 4K restoration from the original camera negative and magnetic soundtrack held at the archive of the George Eastman Museum
• Digital restoration completed by Cineric Portugal
• 5.1 audio track restoration by Audio Mechanics (Burbank)
• Color grading by Deluxe Restoration (London) under the supervision of cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts and director James Ivory

Synopsis: One of Merchant Ivory's undisputed masterpieces, this adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic 1910 novel is a saga of class relations and changing times in Edwardian England. Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) and her sister Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) become involved with two couples: a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife (Vanessa Redgrave), and a working-class man (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The interwoven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the diverging trajectories of the two sisters' lives are connected to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved country home. A compelling, brilliantly acted study of one woman's struggle to maintain her ideals and integrity in the face of Edwardian society's moribund conformist values.