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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Directed by: François Truffaut
Featuring: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Alexandra Stewart, Jean Champion, François Truffaut, David Markham, Jean-François Stevenin
This affectionate farce from François Truffaut about the joys and strife of moviemaking is one of his most beloved films. Truffaut himself appears as the harried director of a frivolous melodrama, the shooting of which is plagued by the whims of a neurotic actor (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an aging but still forceful Italian diva (Valentina Cortese), and a British ingenue haunted by personal scandal (Jacqueline Bisset). An irreverent paean to the prosaic craft of cinema as well as a delightful human comedy about the pitfalls of sex and romance, Day for Night is buoyed by robust performances and a sparkling score by the legendary Georges Delerue.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
French PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Video Essay, Interview, Documentary, Theatrical Trailer, Insert, Featurette, Television Program, Archival Footage
- New visual essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
- New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew
- "Day for Night": An Appreciation: documentary on the film from 2003, featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf
- New interviews with Pierre-William Glenn and assistant editor Martine Barraqué
- Archival 1973 featurette Truffaut: A View from the Inside featuring footage of the director working on the set of Day for Night
- Episode of the French television program Pour le cinéma from 1973 featuring an interview with François Truffaut
- 1973 interview with François Truffaut conducted at Cannes, where the filmmaker discusses Day for Night
- 2003 interview with actor Jacqueline Bisset
- Episode of the French television series Le dernier des cinq featuring an interview with actor Jean-Pierre Aumont
- 2003 interview with actor Nathalie Baye
- 2003 interview featuring actor Bernard Menez talking about shooting Day for Night and how he got the role of prop master
- 2003 interview with Dani, who plays the intern in Day for Night
- 2003 interview with editor Yann Dedet
- News footage: Truffaut Shoots "Day for Night"
- Pour le cinéma: "On Day for Night"
- JT nuit: Truffaut at the National Society of Film Critics
- Trailer
- Insert featuring an essay by critic David Cairns
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Release Credits
Producer: Issa Clubb
Artwork: Roman K. Muradov
Release Notes on Restoration
Day for Night
Day for Night is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. On standard 4:3 televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On standard and widescreen televisions, black bars may also appear on the left and right to maintain the proper screen format. Supervised by director of photography Pierre-William Glenn, this new digital transfer was created in 2K resolution on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner from a 35mm interpositive at MPI in Los Angeles. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI’s DRS, while Digital Vision’s Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain, noise management, flicker, and jitter.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 35mm magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 35mm magnetic track. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube’s integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.