King Lear 1987 Criterion Collection 1080p USA Blu-ray AVC DTS-HD MA 2.0-MKu
Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl. That is, everything but art. Most of the great works are lost, and it is up to people like William Shakespear Junior the Fifth to restore the...
Year: 1987
Duration: 90 min
Release date: Wednesday 3rd April 2002
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Stars:
Woody Allen, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, Jean-Luc Godard, Suzanne Lanza, Kate Mailer, Norman Mailer
Jean-Luc Godard&s first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare&s masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestor&s play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
New 2K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Audio recording of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival press conference, featuring director Jean-Luc Godard
New interviews with Richard Brody, author of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, and actors Molly Ringwald and Peter Sellars
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Disc Title: KING LEAR
Disc Label: King.Lear.1987.1080p.Blu-ray.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.2.0.The.Criterion.Collection-MKu
Disc Size: 46,587,865,811 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: 00003.MPLS
Size: 27,423,418,368 bytes
Length: 1:30:41.519
Total Bitrate: 40.32 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 36298 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2005 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitle: English / 37.734 kbps
