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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Götz Spielmann (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New video interview with Spielmann
* The Making of “Revanche,” a half-hour documentary shot on the film’s set
* Foreign Land, Spielmann’s award-winning student short film, with an introduction by the director
* U.S. theatrical trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Wood

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring Max Ophuls scholar Susan White
* “Max Ophuls ou le plaisir de tourner,” a 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of Ophuls’s collaborators
* Max by Marcel, a new documentary by Marcel Ophuls about his father and the making of Lola Montès
* Silent footage of actress Martine Carol demonstrating the various glamorous hairstyles in Lola Montès
* Theatrical rerelease trailer from Rialto Pictures
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Gary Giddins film info

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Steve McQueen (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Video interviews with McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender
* A short documentary on the making of Hunger, including interviews with McQueen, Fassbender, actors Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, and Brian Milligan, writer Enda Walsh, and producer Robin Gutch
* “The Provo’s Last Card?” a 1981 episode of the BBC program Panorama, about the causes and effects of the IRA hunger strikes at the Maze prison and the political and civilian reactions across Northern Ireland
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Chris Darke

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, from a newly manufactured restoration element (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary featuring director Nicolas Roeg and actress Jenny Agutter
* Video interviews with Agutter and actor Luc Roeg
* Gulpilil—One Red Blood (2002), an hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by author Paul Ryan

* Restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* The long-lost English-language version of M (on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI Film Classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
* Documentary on the physical history of M, from production to distribution to digital restoration
* Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
* Claude Chabrol’s M le Maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus an interview with Chabrol by Pierre-Henri Gibert about Lang’s filmmaking techniques
* Classroom audiotapes of editor Paul Falkenberg discussing M and its history, set to clips from the film
* Video interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
* Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos, and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler
* Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
* Audio commentary by noted western authority Jim Kitses
* Bucking Broadway (1917), a fifty-four-minute silent western by John Ford, with new music by Donald Sosin
* Extensive video interview with Ford from 1968
* New video interview with Dan Ford, biographer and grandson of the director, about Ford’s home movies
* New video interview with filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
* New video essay by writer Tag Gallagher
* New video feature about Monument Valley
* New video interview with stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong about Stagecoach’s stuntman Yakima Canutt
* Radio dramatization of Stagecoach from 1949
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by David Cairns and the short story that inspired the film

VOLUME ONE (ONE DISC)

* New high-definition digital transfers of all twenty-six films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
* Brakhage on Brakhage, a collection of video encounters with the filmmaker
* Audio remarks on selected films by Stan Brakhage


VOLUME TWO (TWO DISCS)

* New high-definition digital transfers of thirty films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
* Brakhage on Brakhage, a collection of video encounters with the filmmaker
* For Stan, a short film by Marilyn Brakhage
* Excerpts from a 1990 interview with Brakhage
* Footage from Brakhage’s salon at the University of Colorado
* Audio recordings of two lectures by Brakhage
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a foreword and program notes by Marilyn Brakhage, as well as write-ups of the films and an essay by Brakhage expert Fred Camper

* High-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with restored image and sound and presented in the original Super Technirama aspect ratio of 2.21:1 (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* The 161-minute American release, with English-language dialogue, including Burt Lancaster’s own voice
* Audio commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie
* A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, an hour-long documentary featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D’Amico, Rotunno, filmmaker Sydney Pollack, and many others
* Video interview with producer Goffredo Lombardo
* Video interview with professor Millicent Marcus on the history behind The Leopard
* Original theatrical trailers and newsreels
* Stills gallery of rare behind-the-scenes production photos
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Michael Wood

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Jim Jarmusch (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Two video Q&As with Jarmusch, one from the 2009 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in New York and one in which he responds to questions sent in by fans
* Original documentary on Mystery Train’s locations and Memphis’s rich social and musical history
* On-set photos by Masayoshi Sukita, and behind-the-scenes photos
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by writers Peter Guralnick and Dennis Lim, as well as a collectible poster

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
* Archival video interviews with director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
* Outtakes from the film’s production
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Mark Le Fanu, an interview with Antonioni by Jean-Luc Godard, and a reprinted essay by Antonioni on his use of color
* More!