L'Eclisse (#278) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

[Horhay]

Release Date: June 10, 2014
Purchase: Amazon

Italy
1962
125 minutes
Black and White
1.85:1
Italian

The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’avventura and La notte), L’eclisse (The Eclipse) tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the doomed affair, Antonioni achieves the apotheosis of his style in this return to the theme that preoccupied him the most: the difficulty of connection in an alienating modern world.

Disc Features:

1. New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Peña, former program director of New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center
3. Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (2001), a fifty-six-minute documentary exploring the director’s life and career
4. Elements of Landscape, a twenty-two-minute piece from 2005 about Antonioni and L’eclisse, featuring Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and longtime Antonioni friend Carlo di Carlo
5. New English subtitle translation
6. PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Gilberto Perez, as well as excerpts from Antonioni’s writing about his work

 

[Horhay]

Added pre-order link to OP.

 

[Horhay]

Release date bump.

 

[Helikaon]

I thought l'Avventura was OK, and I loved La Notte, but I haven't seen this yet. I wonder if I will like it.