The Criterion Collection
Directed by: Jean Cocteau
Featuring: Jean Marais, Francois Perier, Maria Casarès, Marie Déa, Henri Crémieux, Juliette Gréco, Roger Blin, Edouard Dermithe, Maurice Carnège, René Worms, Pierre Bertin, Jacques Varennes, Jean-Pierre Melville
Year: 1950
Time: 95 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 68
Release Date: August 30 2011
MSRP:
$39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc | BD-50
1.33:1 ratio
French 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
Audio commentary featuring French-film scholar James S. Williams
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown (1984), a feature-length documentary
Jean Cocteau and His Tricks (2008), a video interview with assistant director Claude Pinoteau
40 Minutes with Jean Cocteau (1957), an interview with the director
In Search of Jazz (1956), an interview with Jean Cocteau on the use of jazz in the film
La villa Santo-Sospir (1951), a 16 mm color film by Cocteau
Gallery of images by French-film portrait photographer Roger Corbeau
Raw newsreel footage from 1950 of the Saint-Cyr military academy ruins, a location used in the film
Theatrical trailer
Booklet with a new essay by author Mark Polizzotti and an essay on La villa Santo-Sospir by James S. Williams; and an excerpted article by Jean Cocteau on the film