On the Waterfront (#647) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

[alvoi]

Release Date: February 19, 2013
Pre-Order: Amazon

United States
1954
108 minutes
Black and White
1.66:1

Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this masterpiece of urban poetry. A raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and social corruption, On the Waterfront follows Terry’s deepening moral crisis as he must decide whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) and Johnny’s right-hand man, Terry’s brother, Charley (Rod Steiger), as the authorities close in on them. Driven by the vivid, naturalistic direction of Elia Kazan and savory, streetwise dialogue by Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront was an instant sensation, winning eight Oscars®, including for best picture, director, actor, supporting actress (Eva Marie Saint), and screenplay.

Disc Features:

1. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
2. Alternate presentations of the restoration in two additional aspect ratios: 1.85:1 (widescreen) and 1.33:1 (full-screen)
3. Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
4. Commentary featuring authors Richard Schickel and Jeff Young
5. Conversation between filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Kent Jones
6. Elia Kazan: Outsider (1982), an hour-long documentary
7. New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with scholar Leo Braudy, critic David Thomson, and others
8. New interview with actress Eva Marie Saint
9. Interview with director Elia Kazan from 2001
10. Contender, a 2001 documentary on the film’s most famous scene
11. New interview with longshoreman Thomas Hanley, an actor in the film
12. New interview with author James T. Fisher (On the Irish Waterfront) about the real-life people and places behind the film
13. Visual essay on Leonard Bernstein’s score
14. Visual essay on the aspect ratio
15. Trailer
16. PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Almereyda and reprints of Kazan’s 1952 ad in the New York Times defending his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, one of the 1948 New York Sun articles by Malcolm Johnson on which the film was based, and a 1953 Commonweal piece by screenwriter Budd Schulberg

Three reasons:

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[Tooj]

This will be a must buy for me.

 

[abad21]

Wow, good info. Nice movie...

 

[darczap]

Awesome release. It's like a digibook/digipak hybrid. Comes with a slip cover too.

 

[dirtyoak]

Awesome release. It's like a digibook/digipak hybrid. Comes with a slip cover too.

It's a digipak. Pretty much all digipak's come with a slipcover or slipbox and pretty much all Criterion's comes with a booklet. Just putting a booklet in a digipak doesn't make it a digibook.

Don't mean to offend or anything but to be honest, collector's that confuse digipak's with digibook's strikes a nerve with me.
I guess I'm easily annoyed on this subject.

 

[townterrier]

Just ordered this from amazon.com, cannot wait!

 

[Horhay]

Added purchase link and three reasons for OP.