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New Criterion Blu-ray Discs: The Wages of Fear, In The Realm of the Senses

By brenden ⋅ January 16, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Criterion has announced an April 24th release date for Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear and Nagisa Oshima’s In The Realm of the Senses, the latter of which is day and date with its DVD counterpart. Details have yet to be confirmed but we can no doubt expect 1080p AVC transfers with some sort of lossless audio. The Wages of Fear extras appear on a second disc in the DVD edition and will most likely appear on the same disc as the feature for the Blu-ray release. What we can’t be sure of is if we’ll see the 24 page booklet included in the package. Until we know for sure, here’s a rundown of the details from the Criterion website:

THE WAGES OF FEAR DISC FEATURES:

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer
  • New video interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff and Henri-Georges Clouzot biographer Marc Godin
  • Interview with Yves Montand from 1988
  • Henri Georges Clouzot: An Enlightened Tyrant, a 2004 documentary on the director’s career
  • Censored, an analysis of cuts to the film made for the 1955 U.S. release
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A 24-page booklet featuring a new essay by novelist Dennis Lehane and a compilation of interviews with the cast and crew of the film
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    IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES DISC FEATURES:

    • New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
    • New audio commentary with film scholar Tony Rayns
    • New interview with actor Tatsuya Fuji
    • A 1976 interview with director Nagisa Oshima and actors Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, and a 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer, Koji Wakamatsu, assistant director Yoichi Sai, and film distributor Yoko Asakura
    • Deleted footage
    • U.S. trailer
    • New and improved English subtitle translation
    • PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie and a reprinted interview with Oshima
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