Our British mates of DVD Times have listed the full release details of seven titles that Optimum Home Entertainment is releasing on Blu-ray on September 28 under the "Studio Canal Collection":
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Belle de jour',
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The Deer Hunter',
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The Elephant Man',
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Last Year In Marienbad',
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum',
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Le mépris' and
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Ran'.
DVD Times has received discs for three of them and reports that all three were region A and B compatible.
Belle de jour
- The Last Script (1h34')
- Commentary from Professor William Evans, Spanish Cinema expert
- Documentary: Story of a Film (29')
- Theatrical trailer
- A Story of Perversion or Emancipation: Interview with a sex therapist (28') (HD)
- BD Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis of the movie by Derek Malcolm, film critic of the Guardian for 35 years and now critic of the London Evening Standard
The Deer Hunter
- Audio commentary by director Michael Cimino
- Realising the Deer Hunter: Interview with Michael Cimino (23')
- Shooting the Deer Hunter: Interview with Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (15')
- Playing The Deer Hunter: Interview with John Savage (15')
- Unknown Images: Documentary on the Vietnam War (47')
- Introduction by Mickey Rourke (2½')
- Trailer
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by Ryan Gilbey, film critic of the New Statesman
The Elephant Man
- Joseph Merrick: The Real Elephant Man Featurette
- The Air Is On Fire: Interview with David Lynch (Cartier Foundation)
- Interview with John Hurt
- Interview with David Lynch
- Conversation with David Lynch by Mike Figgis
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by Tom Huddleston, writer and critic for Time Out London magazine
Last Year at Marienbad
- Introduction by film critic Ginette Vincendeau (18')
- Documentary: Dans le Labyrinthe de Marienbad (33')
- Documentary on Alain Robe-Brillet (48')
- Trailer
- Short films by Alain Resnais:
- Toute La Mémoire du Monde (20') (HD)
- Le chant du styrène (13') (HD)
- BD Live (DynamicHD)
- Interview with M. Mann via BD Live (TBC)
- Booklet: Introduction to the movie by Jean-Louis Letrat (Paris La Sorbonne) & Filmographies
Le mépris
- Colin MacCabe introduction (5')
- Contempt, Tenderly - Documentary about the film (31')
- Once upon a time there was...Contempt (52')
- The Dinosaur and the Baby: classic interview between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard (53')
- Conversation with Fritz Lang (14')
- Trailer
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by Ginette Vincendeau, Professor of Film Studies at King's College London and acclaimed author
Ran
- Art of the Samurai: Interview with J.C. Charbonnier (41')
- The Epic and the Intimate: Documentary on Kurosawa (50')
- Interview with Kurosawa by Catherine Cadou (13')
- AK documentary by Chris Marker (70')
- The Samurai (52')
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Analysis by David Jenkins, writer and critic for Time Out London magazine
- Excerpts from an interview with Paul Verhoeven
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- Memories with Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta and producer Eberhard Junkersdorf (51')
- "Antigone": Episode from Germany in Autumn, directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on a story by Heinrich Boll (15')
- Original Trailer (HD)
- Photo Gallery
- BD-Live (DynamicHD)
- Booklet: Introduction by German journalist Willi Winkler