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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Featuring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alex Minotis, Wally Brown
With this twisted love story, Alfred Hitchcock summoned darker shades of suspense and passion by casting two of Hollywood’s most beloved stars starkly against type. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia, an alluring woman with a checkered past recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant), a suave, mysterious intelligence agent, to spy for the U.S. Only after she has fallen for Devlin does she learn that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist (Claude Rains) hiding out in South America. Coupling inventive cinematography with brilliantly subtle turns from his mesmerizing leads, Hitchcock orchestrates an anguished romance shot through with deception and moral ambiguity. A thriller of rare perfection, Notorious represents a pinnacle of both its director’s legendary career and classic Hollywood cinema.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Radio Program, Newsreel Footage, Interview, Video Presentation, Video Essay, Documentary, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- Audio commentary by film scholar Marian Keane
- Audio commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer
- New interview with Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto
- New program about the film’s visual style with cinematographer John Bailey
- New scene analysis by film scholar David Bordwell
- Once Upon a Time . . . “Notorious,” a 2009 documentary about the film featuring actor Isabella Rossellini; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, Claude Chabrol, and Stephen Frears; and others
- New program about Hitchcock’s storyboarding and previsualization process by filmmaker Daniel Raim
- Rare newsreel footage of Ingrid Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock
- Complete broadcast of the 1948 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten
- Trailers and teasers
- An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién
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Release Notes on Restoration
Notorious
Notorious is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital restoration was undertaken by The Walt Disney Company and the Criterion Collection. A new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner at Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging in Burbank, California, from three elements: the 35 mm original camera negative and a 35 mm nitrate fine-grain, both held by the Museum of Modern Art, and a 35 mm safety fine-grain held by the British Film Institute. Several sections of the original negative, the primary source for this restoration, have sustained damage over the years and been replaced by duplicate negatives; for some of these portions, the fine-grains were used. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film's DRS, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management.
The original monaural soundtrack was first restored in 2001 from a 1954 35 mm acetate release print and a so mm nitrate fine-grain master. Additional restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection for this release, using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.
The original monaural soundtrack was first restored in 2001 from a 1954 35 mm acetate release print and a so mm nitrate fine-grain master. Additional restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection for this release, using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX.