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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Featuring: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Christoph Waltz, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Fisher Stevens, Elisabeth Moss
A salute to writers and expatriates, Wes Anderson’s tenth feature takes the form of the final edition of The French Dispatch, a weekly magazine chronicling life in the city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France (for American readers). Made up of three featured stories—a profile of a tortured artist, a report on student revolutionaries, and a recounting of a tabloid kidnapping with a gourmet twist—plus an obituary and a travelogue, this dazzlingly constructed anthology mixes everything from theatrical interludes to tableaux vivants to comic-book animation. The superb ensemble cast includes Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Léa Seydoux, Owen Wilson, and Jeffrey Wright.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
4K UHD
Blu-ray
Discs:
UHD-100 (1 Disc)
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
None (4K UHD)
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
1.85:1
2.40:1
Audio Options:
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Resolution:
2160p/24
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
HDR:
HDR10
Dolby Vision
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Storyboard Comparison, Behind the Scenes Footage, Video Essay, Radio Program, Interview, Music Video, Featurette, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- Audio commentary featuring Wes Anderson and collaborators Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman
- Selected-scene storyboard animatic
- Behind the Scenes of “The French Dispatch”
- No Crying: How to Overcome Blasé Ennui, a visual essay featuring the writing of film scholar David Bordwell
- Episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour featuring Wes Anderson, New Yorker editor David Remnick, and actor Jeffrey Wright
- The French Splatter-School Action-Group, an interview with artist Sandro Kopp, who created Moses Rosenthaler’s paintings in the film
- “Aline” by Jarvis Cocker, a music video directed by Anderson and illustrated by Javi Aznarez
- The French Dispatch reads the New Yorker, featuring Jeffrey Wright and actors Bill Murray, Stephen Park, Elisabeth Moss, Owen Wilson, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton reading excerpts from classic works associated with the New Yorker
- “The French Dispatch”: Miniature Unit Berlin
- Accidentally Angoulême, a tour of the French town where the movie was made, by the team behind Accidentally Wes Anderson
- Trailer
- An essay by critic Richard Brody; excerpts from the limited-edition magazine issue of The French Dispatch, published to promote the film, including historical and production dispatches by writer Alex Pasternack and further-reading recommendations from Anderson; and a poster by Javi Aznarez featuring the French Dispatch magazine covers created for the film
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Release Notes on Restoration
The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun is presented in the aspect ratios of 1.37:, 1.85:1, and 2.40:1. For the 4K digital master presented on the 4K Ultra HD disc, colorist Gareth Spensley returned to his original color project and scans of the 35 mm camera negative to create a new Dolby Vision HDR (high dynamic range) presentation that was supervised and approved by Wes Anderson. The original 5.1 surround soundtrack was remastered from the digital audio files. The feature is presented in Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc and high-definition SDR (standard dynamic range) on the Blu-ray.