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Warner Unveils Complete Details on Kubrick Blu-ray, HD DVD Titles
Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 07:55 AM ET
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Warner Home Video has unveiled full details for the Blu-ray and HD DVD
editions of the Stanley Kubrick collection, which will include a host of
newly-produced supplemental features.
As originally announced in late July, Warner will be debuting a quartet
of Kubrick classics day-and-date on standard-def DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD
October 23.
Included in the collection will be '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'A Clockwork
Orange,' 'Eyes Wide Shut' and 'The Shining,' each of which will be
making their first-ever appearances on high-def in single-disc editions
that will mirror the special features found on their two-disc
standard-def counterparts.
Warner will also debut a 'Deluxe Edition' of 'Full Metal Jacket' with
new bonus materials, replacing the movie-only next-gen versions that the
studio originally released in 2006.
'2001: A Space Odyssey' will feature audio commentary with stars Keir
Dullea and Gary Lockwood, plus an audio-only interview with Stanley
Kubrick. Video materials include the Channel 4 documentary "2001: The
Making of a Myth" and five all-new featurettes -- "Standing on the
Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001," "Vision of a Future Passed:
The Prophecy of 2001," "2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the
Future," "2001: FX and Early Conceptual Artwork" and "Look: Stanley
Kubrick!"
'A Clockwork Orange' boasts audio commentary by Malcolm McDowell and
historian Nick Redman, the Channel 4 documentary "Still Tickin': The
Return of Clockwork Orange," and the new featurettes " Great Bolshy
Yarblockos!: Making A Clockwork Orange" and "O Lucky Malcolm!"
'Eyes Wide Shut' will feature both the R and Unrated versions of the
film, audio commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter Loewenberg,
the Channel 4 documentary "The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide
Shut," the "Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick"
featurette, a 1998 DGA D.W. Griffith Award acceptance speech by Kubrick,
and ported over from the previous standard-def DVD release of 'Eyes Wide
Shut,' an interview gallery with Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Steven
Spielberg.
'The Shining' scares up an audio commentary by historians Garrett Brown
and John Baxter, the original 1980 "The Making of the Shining"
documentary (with optional commentary by Vivian Kubrick) and three new
featurettes -- "View from the Overlook: Crafting the Shining," "The
Visions of Stanley Kubrick" and "Wendy Carlos, Composer."
Finally, the re-issued 'Full Metal Jacket: Deluxe Edition' includes
audio commentary by stars Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey
and Jay Cocks, and the "Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil"
featurette.
Each release will also include the original theatrical trailer for the
film it presents.
Note that Warner is currently planning to release each of the five
Kubrick films as stand-alone Blu-ray/HD DVD editions, and not as a box
set collection. There will, however, be a packaged version on
standard-def DVD, which will include a bonus disc with the documentary
'Stanley Kubrick: A Life Pictures.' p>
Warner has set a $28.95 suggested list price for the Blu-ray and HD DVD
versions of each Kubrick title.
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