Targets (Criterion Collection) (Blu ray) [USA]

C.C. 95

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Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writers: Peter Bogdanovich, Polly Platt, Samuel Fuller
Starring: Boris Karloff, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, Frank Marshall, Elaine Partnow
  • United States
  • 1968
  • 90 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
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Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.

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BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

  • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
  • New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
  • Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
  • Excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-Maker
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