The Graduate: 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition Detailed
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Posted July 5, 2017 04:52 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal have detailed the upcoming 50th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition of director Mike Nichols' film The Graduate. The release will be available for purchase on August 14.
Synopsis: A complete sensation on its original release in 1967, The Graduate was a one-of-a-kind cinematic portrait of America which captured the mood of disaffected youth seething beneath the laid-back exterior of 1960s California. It earned Mike Nichols a Best Director Oscar, introduced the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience and featured one of the most famous seductions in movie history and a truly iconic final scene. The Graduate also introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman, perfectly cast as the jaw-droppingly naïve Benjamin.
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion as he wonders what to do with his life. He returns to his parents' luxurious Beverly Hills home, where he idles away the summer floating in the pool and brooding in silence. He is rescued from the boredom when he is seduced into a clandestine affair with a middle-aged married friend of his parents, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft). That liaison is soon complicated by Benjamin's infatuation with her college-age daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a witty, endlessly quotable script by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (based on the novel by Charles Webb), with a supporting cast that includes William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Walter Brooke and Elizabeth Wilson, The Graduate had the kind of cultural impact that comes along only once in a generation.
*In the United States, the 4K restoration is already available on Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection. You can see our listing and review of this release here.
Special Features:
Synopsis: A complete sensation on its original release in 1967, The Graduate was a one-of-a-kind cinematic portrait of America which captured the mood of disaffected youth seething beneath the laid-back exterior of 1960s California. It earned Mike Nichols a Best Director Oscar, introduced the music of Simon & Garfunkel to a wider audience and featured one of the most famous seductions in movie history and a truly iconic final scene. The Graduate also introduced the world to a young actor named Dustin Hoffman, perfectly cast as the jaw-droppingly naïve Benjamin.
Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion as he wonders what to do with his life. He returns to his parents' luxurious Beverly Hills home, where he idles away the summer floating in the pool and brooding in silence. He is rescued from the boredom when he is seduced into a clandestine affair with a middle-aged married friend of his parents, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft). That liaison is soon complicated by Benjamin's infatuation with her college-age daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).
Visually imaginative and impeccably acted, with a witty, endlessly quotable script by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (based on the novel by Charles Webb), with a supporting cast that includes William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Walter Brooke and Elizabeth Wilson, The Graduate had the kind of cultural impact that comes along only once in a generation.
*In the United States, the 4K restoration is already available on Blu-ray via the Criterion Collection. You can see our listing and review of this release here.
Special Features:
- 4K restoration of the film completed by Criterion. The color timing was done by referencing a high-definition master supervised by Grover Crisp at Sony Pictures and approved by director Mike Nichols
- New interview with Lawrence Turman
- Interview with Dustin Hoffman (23 mins)
- Interview with author Charles Webb (20 mins)
- American Masters: Mike Nichols documentary (53 mins)
- The Graduate at 25 (22 mins)
- Students of the Graduate (26 mins)
- The Graduate: Looking Back (13 mins)
- Audio commentary with Mike Nichols / Steven Soderbergh
- Audio commentary with Dustin Hoffman / Katherine Ross
- Audio commentary with Professor Thomas Koebner
- Screen tests
- Analysis of Seduction scene (9 mins)
- About The Music – Analysis of the soundtrack (8 mins)
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Time Out film editor Dave Calhoun and exclusive behind the scenes photos, taken by renowned photographer Bill Willoughby
