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The second commentary features film historian Richard Schickel giving an expectedly historical perspective on things.

Debuts on Blu - ray with commentary featuring film historian Michael Schlesinger with Christa Lang Fuller and Samantha Fuller, the widow and the daughter of Sam Fuller.

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The film series features 14 of the world's leading scientists and three historians of science discussing exciting scientific advances — and their own wonder and amazement as they explore our world.

Composed of field testimonies and hidden camera footage, the film also features interviews with Haiti's Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Raymond Joseph, the U.S. Department of States» Ambassador John Miller from the Office of Human Trafficking, renowned anthropologist and sugar historian Sidney Mintz, Carol Pier from Human Rights Watch, Public Interest Attorneys Bill Quigley as well as Greg Schell, and a number of activists from the field including human rights lawyer Noemi Mendez, Colette Lespinase of G.A.R.R. Haiti [Organization for Refugees and the Repatriated] and missionaries Pierre Ruquoy and Father Christopher Hartley.

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, the program runs 55 minutes and features author Ray Bradbury, film critic Stanley Kauffmann, filmmakers Nikola Radosevic, Bernard Vorhaus and Sidney Lumet, artist Al Hirschfeld, historians Brigitte Hamann, Gitta Sereny and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., screenwriters Walter Bernstein and Budd Schulberg, Hitler's inner circle member Reinhard Spitzy, Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney, Chaplin's friend Ivor Montagu, Chaplin's assistant Dan James, and Chaplin's cousin Betty Tetrick.

Features include an iolated score, the original theatrical trailer, and audio commentary with film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo, and Nick Redman.

«There's Always Vanilla Film Locations» (11 mins., 1080p) has «Romero historian» Lawrence DeVincentz talking over a slideshow of contemporary photographs of locations used for scenes in the film (some of them featuring him or his buddy Spooky Daz Sargeant in the frame matching the pose of the original actors) with authentic production stills occasionally appearing in an inset.

The final bonus feature is an audio commentary by film historians Travis Crawford and Bill Ackerman, who prepared a discussion that covers the movie from its origin to its release, with plenty of information about Marvin, Mifune, Boorman, and others.

Features commentary by film noir historian Alan K. Rode, who hosts the track and provides most of the production comments, and critic / noir maven (and fellow MSN writer) Kim Morgan, who chimes in for color commentary (and an obsessive appreciation of the pickle that J. Carrol Naish chomps in an early scene; Kim, sometimes a pickle is just a pickle) plus a gallery of stills and advertising art.

Those film historians who've summed up Kemp's post-Z Cars TV appearances as «sporadic» evidently haven't seen his small - screen work in such miniseries as Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance (he played German general Armin Von Roon in both); he also played Cornwall in Sir Laurence Olivier's 1983 television adaptation of King Lear, and was featured in the internationally produced historical multiparters George Washington (1985) and Peter the Great (1986).

The sequel The Return of Count Yorga (Scream Factory, Blu - ray), which reunites director Bob Kelljan and star Robert Quarry, comes from another label and features commentary by film historian Steve Haberman and actor Rudy De Luca.

House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.

Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.

It features new commentary by film historian Stephen Prince, new interviews with assistant director and restoration supervisor Kiyoshi Ogasawara and literary scholar Christopher Benfey, who discusses Lafcadio Hearn's stories, and a 1993 discussion between Kobayashi and fellow filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda, plus trailers and a fold - out insert with a new essay by Geoffrey O'Brien.

Features commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Tim Sullivan, an interview with Uta Levka, and a featurette on director Gordon Hessler, along with the trademark isolated score audio track, and booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo.

HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will honor Oscar ® - nominated actress Gloria Stuart's career in film and celebrate her 100th birthday with a program featuring film clips and an onstage conversation between Stuart and her longtime friend, film historian Leonard Maltin, on Thursday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m., -LSB-...]

Also on board is an audio commentary from» 09 — Disney, alas, has dropped the picture - in - picture option that made this a full - blown «Cine - Explore feature» on the PE — teaming Leonard Maltin with Disney animator («and unashamed animation geek») Eric Goldberg and film historian J.B. Kaufman, who at the time was writing a book about the making of Pinocchio that finally got published in 2015.

The first platter is also home to a piecemeal featuring - length yakker orchestrated by Laurent Bouzereau that compiles snippets from stand - alone interviews with film historian Rudy Behlmer and actor Malden.

First, film historian Richard Schickel provides a feature audio commentary.

The other three features are First Name: Carmen (1983), Detective (1984), and Helas Pour Moi (aka Oh, Woe Is Me, 1993), and the disc features the half - hour documentary «Jean - Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma,» with film critics and historians Kent Jones, Winston Wheeler Dixon and David Sterritt.

The Blu - ray and DVD feature Rivette's 1956 short Le coup du berger, which stars Jean - Claude Brialy and features appearances by his fellow film critics (and future nouvelle vague filmmakers) Claude Chabrol, Jean - Luc Godard, and Francois Truffaut, and an interview with critic and historian Richard Neupert.

Now it has been lovingly remastered from the negatives and Janus films (a partner with Criterion) has applied digital technology to create a new digital restoration for the U.S., which is the source of Criterion's special edition, which features commentary by film scholar James Naremore and new interviews with Keith Baxter, Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles (who has a small role in the film), and Welles historians Simon Callow and Joseph McBride among the supplements.

Both programs feature commentary by film historians and Peckinpah experts Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons, and Nick Redman, which is very useful for both and frankly a labor of love when it comes to Noon Wine.

Bonus materials on the 4 - disc Blu - ray / DVD Combo Pack include audio commentary on Smashing the O - Line; Tony Rayns on the Crime and Action Movies, a discussion by the critic and historian on the background to the films, their place within Suzuki's career and the talent involved; trailers; stills gallery; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork; and a 60 - page illustrated collector's book.

In an attempt to bring a more human face to the slaughter, Saroyan brings in a historian, an Armenian woman named Ani (Khanjian, Irma Vep), to serve as an advisor to the film, since she is an expert on the life of painter Arshile Gorky (Abkarian, When the Cat's Away), reported to have eye witnessed the events, and who is to be featured in a supporting role.

Produced for this edition is a terrific 55 - minute documentary «Way Out on a Limb,» featuring new interviews with actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy, casting director Graeme Clifford, and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury, and a 37 - minute conversation between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell.

Extras: Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp on «Smashing the 0 - Line»; «Tony Rayns on the Crime and Action Movies» in which the critic and historian discusses the background to the films, their place within Suzuki's career and the talent involved with them; trailers; stills gallery; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys; 60 - page illustrated collector's book featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp.

Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.

Raro's release on Blu - ray and DVD features the «visual essay» In the Shade of the Conformist with Italian film critic and historian Adriano Apra and featuring clips from a 2011 video interview with Bertolucci, plus two trailer and a booklet.

Sadly, there are no extras here save for the film's original theatrical trailer and a booklet featuring an in - depth analysis of the film by cultural historian Audie Bock.

Those features, all in HD, begin with an audio commentary by Alain Silver and James Ursini, historians who have recorded tracks for nearly twenty noir films of the 1940s and»50s.

PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film historian Stephen Prince and a new interview with Nogami

Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.

Second audio commentary track features producer Nick Redman, Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and film historian Julie Kirgo.

SYNOPSIS: 1492: Conquest of Paradise arrives on Blu - ray in North America in a release that features some deleted scenes and a commentary track by a pair of film historians.

Disc 1 offers a single bonus feature, a feature - length audio commentary by film critic / historian Joseph McBride and Marni Nixon, the singing voice for Terry McKay (and the leads in My Fair Lady and The King and I, for that matter).

Special Features Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster New making - of documentary, featuring members of the Cast and Crew New conversation about the film and Altman's career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell Featurette from the film's 1970 production Art Directors Guild Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael Trailer PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich

1492: Conquest of Paradise arrives on Blu - ray in North America in a release that features some deleted scenes and a commentary track by a pair of film historians.

New to this edition and featured on both Blu - ray and DVD editions is commentary by film historian and Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas and the almost hour - long «Psycho Analysis,» an in - depth documentary on Blood and Black Lace and the origins of the giallo genre featuring interviews with directors Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi among others.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the film's editing New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

Also features an introduction by Terry Jones, select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp and a video interview with script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot among the supplements.

The Blu - ray release features commentary by film historian Stephen Farber and two well made (if overly admiring) documentary featurettes among the supplements, and comes in an illustrated Blu - ray book case with a soundtrack sampler CD.

Plus: a 28 - page booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Stuart Klawans and reprinted pieces by director Martin Scorsese and film historian Andrew Sarris

Special Features New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin's 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent - film specialist Ben Model Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid «Charlie» on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin's first return trip to Europe Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for «The Kid» Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock Trailers Plus: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

This Twilight Time release features the original commentary recorded by Frankenheimer for the laserdisc release almost 20 years ago plus a new commentary track with Twilight Time founder and historian Nick Redman and film historians Julie Kirgo and Paul Seydor, as well as the usual isolated score track and eight - page booklet.

Extras: Fans of this one get two commentaries: an isolated score track with film historians Jeff Bond, Jon Burlingame, and Nick Redman commenting mostly ahead of the music (which really begins when the fantastic voyage begins); and a feature commentary with Bond again covering all the basics in a somewhat average walk - through.

- New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray - Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles - New interview with actor Keith Baxter - New interview with director Orson Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age nine - New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow - New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?

«Breaker Morant» Special Features Audio commentary featuring Beresford from 2004 New interviews with Beresford, cinematographer Donald McAlpine, and actor Bryan Brown Interview with actor Edward Woodward from 2004 New piece about the Boer War with historian Stephen Miller «The Breaker,» a 1973 documentary profiling the real Harry «Breaker» Morant, with a 2010 statement by its director, Frank Shields Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard

As has become Criterion's habit, included are a number of features geared toward the cinephiles who make up its fan base, things like film historian Bruce Eder's audio commentary, experts from Francois Truffaut's 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock, and a gallery of production stills.

More extra features in this handsome package include a new feature - length audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa and a documentary from 2003 on the making of the film, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create.