A Night to Remember (#7) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: March 27, 2012
Purchase: Amazon

United Kingdom
1958
123 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1
English

On April 14, 1912, just before midnight, the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg. In less than three hours, it had plunged to the bottom of the sea, taking with it more than 1,500 of its 2,200 passengers. In his unforgettable render*ing of Walter Lord’s book of the same name, the acclaimed British director Roy Ward Baker depicts with sensitivity, awe, and a fine sense of tragedy the ship’s last hours. Featuring remarkably restrained performances, A Night to Remember is cinema’s subtlest and best dramatization of this monumental twentieth-century catastrophe.

Disc Features:

1. New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
2. Audio commentary by Don Lynch and Ken Marschall, author and illustrator of “Titanic”: An Illustrated History
3. The Making of “A Night to Remember” (1993), a sixty-minute documentary featuring producer William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage
4. Archival interview with Titanic survivor Eva Hart
5. En natt att minnas (1962), a half-hour Swedish documentary featuring interviews with Titanic survivors
6. The Iceberg That Sank the “Titanic” (2006), a sixty-minute BBC documentary
7. Trailer
8. PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Michael Sragow and archival photographs

Three reasons:

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[bigrob]

a must buy for my collection!!!!

 

[pmartin252]

Just received and watched this after buying in Barnes & Nobles recent 1/2 price sale. I´ve always loved this film, but this restored version is fantastic. Looks like it was filmed (in B&W) yesterday. Superb extras too, especially the interview with survivor Eva Hart, who has now died, but who we were lucky enough to meet when she came to give a talk followed by a Q & A session at our local library, when we lived in England.

Full marks to Criterion for another outstanding addition to their excellent catalogue of titles!

 

[Sixteenvolt420]

Yeah, they definitely did a great job restoring this fantastic movie.


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[Horhay]

Added three reasons to OP.