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Licensor Information
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Featuring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Ana-Sofia Mastroianna, Michael Badalucco, Katherine Borowitz, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, James Gandolfini, Christopher Kriesa, Brian Haley, Jack McGee
The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. Fusing the expressionistic black and white and hard-boiled poetry of classic noir with their own idiosyncratic feeling for sinister, surreal Americana, Joel and Ethan Coen craft an arresting vision of the cruelty of fate and the mystery of our place in the cosmos.
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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:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.0
Resolution:
2160p/24
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
HDR:
HDR10
Dolby Vision
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Interview, Featurette, Deleted Scenes, Insert
- Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
- New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott
- Archival interview with Roger Deakins
- Short making-of documentary
- Deleted scenes
- An essay by author Laura Lippman
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Restoration Information
The Man Who Wasn't There
Restoration by:
The Criterion Collection
Resillion
Year: 2025
Scanned at: 4K Digital
Restored at: 4K Digital
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Release Notes on Restoration
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Man Who Wasn't There is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1. Supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, this new 4K restoration was created from the 35 mm original camera negative. The original 5.0 surround soundtrack was remastered from the 35 mm magnetic printmaster. The feature is presented in Dolby Vision HDR (high dynamic range) on the 4K Ultra HD disc and high-definition SDR (standard dynamic range) on the Bl-ray.