Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) - (The Criterion Collection - #196) [DVD9] [2003]

A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais’ first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.






MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Alain Resnais
COUNTRY: France
YEAR: 1959

Cast & Credits

Cast
Emmanuelle Riva
Eiji Okada
Stella Dassas
Pierre Barbaud
Bernard Fresson


Credits
Director Alain Resnais
Screenplay Marguerite Duras
Cinematography Sacha Vierny and Michio Takahashi
Producer Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Sacha Kamenka and Takeo Shirakawa
Music Georges Delerue and Giovanni Fusco
Editing Henri Colpi and Jasmine Chasney







DVD:
DVD RELEASE: June 24, 2003
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 196
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1
Black and White
AUDIO: French Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 173 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS File
FILE SIZE: 7.48 GB
SCANS HQ PDF(300 DPI): 7 MB

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Disc Features

* New high-definition digital transfer
* Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
* Cinepanorama interview with Alain Resnais (1961)
* Audio interview with Alain Resnais (1980)
* Emmanuelle Riva interviewed by François Chalais at Cannes (1959)
* Excerpts from Duras’ annotations to the screenplay
* Isolated music and effects track
* A new essay on composer Giovanni Fusco by Russell Lack
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
* A new essay on the film by Kent Jones