Release date: December 9th, 2013
Order Link: Amazon
United States
1995
119 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
Spine #739
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safefunctions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
Features:
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Todd Haynes, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Haynes, actor Julianne Moore, and producer Christine VachonNew conversation between Haynes and Moore
The Suicide, a 1978 short film by Haynes
New interview with Vachon
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim
Order Link: Amazon
United States
1995
119 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
Spine #739
Julianne Moore gives a breakthrough performance as Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safefunctions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you cannot see. This revelatory drama was named the best film of the 1990s in a Village Voice poll of more than fifty critics.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
Features:
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Todd Haynes, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring Haynes, actor Julianne Moore, and producer Christine VachonNew conversation between Haynes and Moore
The Suicide, a 1978 short film by Haynes
New interview with Vachon
Trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim
