The.Lower.Depths.2Disc.BoxSet.D2.Jean.Renoir.1936.DVDR.DVD9.CRiTERiON.nfo
LES BAS-FONDS (1936)
AKAs:
The Lower Depths (USA) (literal English title)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027336/
Criterion Collection # 239
DISC ONE OF 2-DISC SET 'THE LOWER DEPTHS: TWO STORIES'
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/487
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Director: Jean Renoir
READ:
by Alexander Sesonske
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/332
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 5.76 GB - Untouched Copy
Time (main feature): 89 minutes
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic
Sound: French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: Optional English
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
# New high-definition digital transfers of both films, with restored image and sound.
# Audio commentary on Kurosawa's The Lower Depths featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie (A Hundred Years of Japanese Film).
# A 33-minute documentary on Kurosawa's The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others.
# Introduction to Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths by the director.
# Original theatrical trailer for Kurosawa's The Lower Depths.
# New essay by Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature) for the Kurosawa film; new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939, for the Renoir.
# New and improved subtitle translations.
# Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer editions.
Studio: Criterion
Posted in: a.b.dvd.criterion
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