Tema: Llegan las películas de Kubrick

El 23 de Octubre se editan (USA) 4 películas de Stanley Kubrick:

- 2001: Una Odisea en el Espacio
- La Naranja Mecánica
- El Resplandor
- Eyes Wide Shut
- La Chaqueta Metálica

Serán ediciones remasterizadas en 1080p y Dolby TrueHD 5.1 en ambos formatos. Se confirma que incluirán los extras de las ediciones en DVD.

Se han publicado algunos datos sobre las ediciones en HD-DVD (supongo que serán las mismas características para la versión en BD):

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was also Oscar® nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.

Using a dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD50) and dual-layer HD DVD (HD30) features include:

• 1080P 2.20:1 Widescreen
• English PCM 5.1 Surround (Blu-ray Disc)
• English Dolby True HD 5.1 Surround (HD DVD)
• English, French and Spanish 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital on Blu-ray, Dolby Digital Plus on HD DVD)
• English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Commentary by Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood
• Theatrical trailer
• Channel 4 documentary: 2001: The Making of a Myth
• 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
• Look: Stanley Kubrick!
• Audio-only interview with Stanley Kubrick

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stomping, whopping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time – at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Controversial when first released, the film garnered three Academy Award nominations – Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Its power still entices, shocks and mesmerizes today.

Using a single dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD50) and two dual-layer HD DVD discs (HD30s) features include:

• 1080P 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby True HD 5.1 Surround
• English, French and Spanish 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital on BD, Dolby Digital Plus on HD DVD)
• English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Commentary by Malcolm McDowell and historian Nick Redman
• Theatrical trailer
• Channel 4 documentary: Still Tickin’: The Return of Clockwork Orange
• New featurette: Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making A Clockwork Orange
• Career profile: O Lucky Malcolm!

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Kubrick’s daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual journey through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage – and may ensnare him in a murder mystery – after his wife’s (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking shots, rich colors and startling images are some of the bravura traits that show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.

Using a dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD50) and dual-layer HD DVD (HD30) features include:

• 1080P 1.78: Widescreen
• English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Scene specific commentary by Sydney Pollack and historian Peter Loewenberg
• Theatrical trailer and TV spots
• Channel 4 documentary: The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut
• Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
• Kubrick’s 1998 DGA D.W Griffith Award acceptance speech
• Interview gallery featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Steven Spielberg

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a film was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay. Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D’Onofrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood) and Cowboy (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with scathing humor.

Features include:

• 1080P 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby True HD 5.1 Surround
• English, French and Spanish 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital on BD, Dolby Digital Plus on HD DVD)
• Commentary by Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey and Jay Cocks
• New Featurette: Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil
• Theatrical trailer

The Shining (1980)
From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the director’s epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous delusions. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson (“Heeeere’s Johnny!”) stars as Jack Torrance, who’s come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd).

Using a dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD50) and dual-layer HD DVD (HD30) features include:

• 1080P 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby True HD 5.1 Surround
• English, French and Spanish 5.1 Surround (Dolby Digital on BD, Dolby Digital Plus on HD DVD)
• English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter
• Theatrical trailer
• Documentary The Making of the Shining, with optional commentary by Vivian Kubrick
• Three new featurettes:
  • View from The Overlook: Crafting the Shining
  • The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
  • Wendy Carlos, Composer

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