Confirming earlier reports (see blu-ray.com,
April 26), Optimum Home Entertainment has announced seven titles for Blu-ray release in the UK on September 13 as part of the Studio Canal Collection:
Breathless (À bout de soufflé, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960);
Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970);
Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1991);
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967);
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001);
The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002); and
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949).
All will be presented with 1080p video, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks and in Blu-ray books. As to region coding,
Breathless,
Delicatessen and
The Graduate are listed as region A and B; the others are listed as region B only.
Special features include:
Breathless
- Introduction by Colin McCabe (4'42)
- Godard, Made in USA (48'; in HD)
- Room 12, Hôtel de Suède (1h18')
- Jean-Luc According To Luc (8')
- Photo gallery
- Trailer (2'05)
- Poster
- Booklet essay by journalist Yves Alion
The Cercle Rouge
- Introduction by Ginette Vincendeau (12') (SD)
- Codename Melville: documentary directed by Olivier Bohler (76')
- Interview with José Giovanni (15')
- Interview with Rui Nogueira (author of Melville on Melville, produced by the Criterion Collection) (26')
- Interview with assistant director Bernard Stora (30')
- Trailer (1')
- Booklet essay by professor/author Ginette Vincendeau
Delicatessen
- Audio Commentary by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Main Course Pieces: brand new retrospective documentary (1h5')
- The Archives of Jean-Pierre Jeunet: casting tests, rehearsals, behind the scenes, etc. (8')
- Making Of: Fine Cooker Pork Meats (13')
- Trailer (2')
- Teasers (1')
- Booklet essay by journalist Adam Woodward
The Graduate
- Audio Commentary with Prof. Koebner, film historian
- About the Music: analysis of music by Prof.Koebner & music professor & author Helga La Motte-Haber (7')
- Analysis of the Seduction Scene (12')
- Trailer (1'48")
- The Graduate at 25 (22')
- Interview with Charles Webb (20')
- The Graduate: Looking Back (12.56)
- The Music in the Film: 4 tracks as they appear in the film (HD)
(in HD):
- The Sound of Silence
- April Come She Will
- Scarborough Fair
- Mrs. Robinson
- Booklet essay by writer and director Marc Webb
Mulholland Drive
- Angelo Badalamenti: audio interview 10 years on (16'30; audio only)
- Back to Mulholland Drive (21') (new)
- Introduction by Thierry Jousse (10'; in HD)
- In the Blue Box: retrospective documentary featuring directors and critics (27'; in HD)
- Interview with Angelo Badalamenti (16')
- Interview with Mary Sweeney (Editor and Producer) (6')
- Making of (23')
- Booklet essay by journalist Adam Woodward
The Pianist
- Interview with Ronald Harwood (20')
- Interview with Andrzej Szpilman (29')
- Interview with Daniel Szpilman (2'28")
- A Story of Survival: behind the scenes of The Pianist (39'43")
- Trailer (1'30")
- Booklet essay by journalist Anwar Brett
The Third Man
- Audio commentary by Guy Hamilton (assistant director), Angela Allen (2nd unit continuity) & Simon Callow
- Guardian NFT interviews (audio only):
- Joseph Cotten (47')
- Graham Greene (8')
- Two original trailers (1'46" & 2'19"; in HD)
- Stills gallery (2'24"; in HD)
- Interview and performance by zither player Cornelia Mayer (4'44"; in HD)
- The Third Man Interactive Vienna Tour (49'50"; in HD)
- The Third Man on the Radio (an episode of The Lives of Harry Lime: Ticket to Tangiers (1951) written by and performed by Orson Welles) (28'45"; audio only)
- Shadowing The Third Man: retrospective documentary (1'29")
- US alternative prologue by Joseph Cotten (1'20")
- Booklet essay by film historian and biographer Charles Drazin