296 Le notti bianche

[BusterK.]

is this the first time a downloadable mp3 has been included as an extra on a DVD?

i cant recall ever seeing this before.

Young Mr. Lincoln also feature a Radio adaptation of the play as an mp3. I'm not sure if those kind of extras are worthy though, i usually never end up listening to the whole thing.

[FerdinandGriffon]

At 00:44:27 over her line from off shot: "In a year I'll be here waiting for you", does anyone else detect a strange hint of reverb/echo on the soundtrack?

This answer is a year or two late in coming, but here goes anyways:
When Schell says this line, it's both part of the main narrative and of the narrative within the narrative. The shot itself is a reversal of the one that begins her story, with Schell sitting down in the outdoor rubble only for the camera to swing around into a house's interior, and Schell's interior thoughts. This time around, the shot (and the line of dialogue) begin in the flashback, but as the camera pulls back it reveals the present. The shot and her line don't just exist within the narrative's present, they exist within both the present and the past. Visconti added in the reverb so as to express this doubling in the audio, and subtly tip us off that something funny is at work here.
It's an incredibly graceful, almost subliminal moment, and one that is perfectly in tune with the film's exploration of fantasy and reality existing not as two separate planes but as forces that are ultimately inseparable and constantly in masochistic conflict with each other. I'm glad I finally got around to seeing this and reading Dostoevsky's story; both will probably be with me for a long time to come.

[yoloswegmaster]

Janus is sending a 4K restoration for a screening happening next month at BAMPFA. Hopefully this means that there are plans to upgrade this sooner rather later (or never).