Blu-ray Release Date: May 13, 2014
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Brian Stirner goes to war in Overlord.
Directed by Stuart Cooper, who seamlessly interweaves archival war footage and a fictional narrative, the 1975 war drama Overlord is an immersive account of one twenty-year-old’s (Brian Stirner) journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day. Along the way, the film brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity.
Impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick’s late, great cinematographer John Alcott (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon), Overlord is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on human smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.
This Critierion Blu-ray edition of Overlord ports over the bulk of the bonus features included on Criterion’s previously issued DVD
Here’s a complete list of features:
• Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Stuart Cooper, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Audio commentary featuring Cooper and actor Brian Stirner
• Mining the Archive, a 2007 video piece featuring archivists from London’s Imperial War Museum detailing the footage used in the film
• Capa Influences Cooper, a 2007 photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa
• Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information’s 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen
• A Test of Violence, Cooper’s 1969 short film about the Spanish artist Juan Genovés
• Germany Calling, a 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord
• Excerpts from the journals of two D-day soldiers, read by Stirner
• Trailer
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kent Jones, a short history of the Imperial War Museum, and excerpts from the Overlord novelization by Cooper and Christopher Hudson
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