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MAYO 2011


Solaris
Audio essay by Andrei Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, coauthors of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
Nine deleted and alternate scenes
Video interviews with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev
Excerpt from a documentary about Stanislaw Lem, the author of the film's source novel
A booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate and an appreciation by director Akira Kurosawa


The Great Dictator
New audio commentary by Charlie Chaplin historians Dan Kamin and Hooman Mehran
The Tramp and the Dictator (2001), a documentary narrated by filmmaker Kenneth Branagh and featuring interviews with author Ray Bradbury, director Sidney Lumet, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., screenwriter Budd Schulberg, and a host of others
Two new visual essays, by Chaplin archivist Cecilia Cenciarelli and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
On-set, color production footage shot by Chaplin's half-brother, Sydney
Deleted scene from Chaplin's 1919 film Sunnyside
Theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood and a 1940 article by Chaplin on the film

Pale Flower

New video interview with director Masahiro Shinoda
Selected-scene audio commentary by film scholar Peter Grilli, coproducer of Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens

Smiles of a Summer Night

Video introduction to the film by director Ingmar Bergman
Video conversation between Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and writer Jörn Donner, executive producer of Fanny and Alexander
Original theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring an essay by theater and film critic John Simon and a 1961 review by film critic Pauline Kael

Something Wild

New video interviews with Demme and writer E. Max Frye
Original theatrical trailer
A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic David Thompson

Diabolique

Selected-scene commentary by French-film scholar Kelley Conway
New video interview with Serge Bromberg, codirector of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
New video interview with horror film expert Kim Newman
New and improved English subtitle translation
A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty

Fat Girl

Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Fat Girl
Two interviews with director Catherine Breillat, one conducted the night after the film's world premiere at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, the other a look back at the film's production and alternate ending
French and U.S. theatrical trailers
A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau, a 2001 interview with Breillat, and a piece by Breillat on the title