The Killers (1946) and Don Siegel's The Killers (1964). On July 14, it will release Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Jan Troell's Here's Your Life (1966), and Carroll Ballard's The Black Stallion (1979). And on July 21, it will release Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (2012).



The Killers



Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale "The Killers" is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and launch the acting careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and John Cassavetes, that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic.



The Killers (1946)



The first screen incarnation of Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.



The Killers (1964)



Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. In 1964, Don Siegelinitially slated to direct the 1946 versiontook it on, creating the first-ever made-for-TV feature.



Special Features: New high-definition digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays

Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers," made when he was a student in 1956

Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films

Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story

Screen Director's Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters

Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager

Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by actor and director Hampton Fancher

Trailers

PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien Hiroshima mon amour



A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais 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 mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Awardnominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.



Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie

Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980

Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003

New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais

New interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score

Revoir Hiroshima . . . , a 2013 program about the film's restoration

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film Here's Your Life



This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the peopleall set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting filmpresented here in its original nearly three-hour cutis a reminder that Troell is one of European cinema's greatest and most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.



Special Features: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

New introduction by filmmaker Mike Leigh

New conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie

New interviews with actor Eddie Axberg and producer and screenwriter Bengt Forslund

Interlude in Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell, starring Max von Sydow

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu The Black Stallion



This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel by Carroll Ballardin which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horseis a cinematic tour de force. From the crystalline shores of a deserted island in the Arabian Sea to the green grass and dusty roads of 1930s suburban New York, Ballard and director of photography Caleb Deschanel create a film of consistent visual invention and purity, also featuring a winning supporting performance by Mickey Rooney as a retired jockey and a gorgeous score by Carmine Coppola.



Special Features: New 4K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Caleb Deschanel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Five short films by Carroll Ballard, with introductions by the director: Pigs! (1965), The Perils of Priscilla (1969), Rodeo (1969), Seems Like Only Yesterday (1971), and Crystallization (1974)

New conversation between Ballard and film critic Scott Foundas

New interview with Deschanel

New piece featuring photographer Mary Ellen Mark discussing her images from the film's set

Trailer

PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Sragow My Beautiful Laundrette



Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by writer Hanif Kureishi, soon to be internationally renowned, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.



Special Features: New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe

New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and Stapleton

Trailer

PLUS: An essay by journalist Sarfraz Manzoor Moonrise Kingdom



An island off the New England coast, summer of 1965. Two twelve-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As local authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing offshore . . . Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom stars Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the young couple on the run, Bruce Willis as Island Police Captain Sharp, Edward Norton as Khaki Scout troop leader Scout Master Ward, and Bill Murray and Frances McDormand as Suzy's attorney parents, Walt and Laura Bishop. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban. The magical soundtrack features the music of Benjamin Britten.



Special Features: Restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Wes Anderson, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Audio commentary featuring Anderson

Selected-scene storyboard animatics

Interviews with cast and crew

Behind-the-scenes tour hosted by Bill Murray

Welcome to New Penzance, hosted by Bob Balaban

Auditions

Home movies from the set

Trailer

More!

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien, plus a map of New Penzance Island and other ephemera



