StudioCanal: The Deer Hunter 4K Blu-ray Detailed
HomeStudioCanal: The Deer Hunter 4K Blu-ray Detailed
Posted June 21, 2018 04:28 PM by Webmaster
StudioCanal has detailed its upcoming 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of director Michael Cimino's classic film The Deer Hunter (1978), starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, and Meryl Streep. The two releases will be available for purchase on August 13.
The new restoration will also open in select cinemas across the United Kingdom on July 4.
Synopsis: Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter is widely acknowledged as one of cinema's great masterpieces and contains some of the most memorable scenes in film history. When Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors, who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and psychological wounds and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfil an old promise to one of his friends, he makes an unexpected, horrific discovery.
Also features astonishing performances from Meryl Streep as the woman both Michael and Nick fall in love with, and John Cazale (The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon) as their unhinged and insecure friend Stan.
SPECIAL FEATURES AND TECHNICAL SPECS:
The new restoration will also open in select cinemas across the United Kingdom on July 4.
Synopsis: Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter is widely acknowledged as one of cinema's great masterpieces and contains some of the most memorable scenes in film history. When Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors, who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and psychological wounds and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfil an old promise to one of his friends, he makes an unexpected, horrific discovery.
Also features astonishing performances from Meryl Streep as the woman both Michael and Nick fall in love with, and John Cazale (The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon) as their unhinged and insecure friend Stan.
SPECIAL FEATURES AND TECHNICAL SPECS:
- BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION of the film
- NEW Interview with critic and author David Thomson
- Introduction by Mickey Rourke
- 1979 ITV South Bank Show Interview with Michael Cimino
- Realizing The Deer Hunter – interview with Michael Cimino
- Shooting The Deer Hunter – interview with Vilmos Zsigmond
- Playing The Deer Hunter – interview with John Savage
- Michael Cimino Audio commentary
- Vilmos Zsigmond & journalist Bob Fisher audio commentary
- Deleted and extended scenes (including the Russian Roulette)
- Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature
- A 64-page booklet which includes:
- Material written by Jay Glennie and adapted from his forthcoming numbered limited edition large format book One Shot: The Making of The Deer Hunter
- An essay from David Jenkins, Editor of Little White Lies
- Pages from the original 1978 press book
- A 72-page script of early incarnation of the script entitled 'The Man Who Came to Play' by Louis Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker
- Five exclusive collectible Artcards
