Blu-ray, DVD Release: Gilda

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 19, 2015
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion

“Gilda, are you decent?” Rita Hayworth (Tonight and Every Night) tosses her hair back and slyly responds, “Me?” in one of the great star entrances in movie history.

gilda9_optThe 1946 film noir crime drama Gilda, directed by Charles Vidor (Cover Girl), features a sultry Hayworth in her most iconic role, as the much-lusted-after wife of a criminal kingpin (Paths of Glory’s George Macready), as well as the former flame of his bitter henchman (3:10 to Yuma’s Glenn Ford), and she drives them both mad with desire and jealousy. An ever-shifting battle of the sexes set on a Buenos Aires casino’s glittering floor and in its shadowy back rooms, Gilda is among the most sensual of all Hollywood noirs.

Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of Gilda contain the following:

  • New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
    • Audio commentary from 2010 by film critic Richard Schickel
    • New interview with film noir historian Eddie Muller
    • Appreciation of Gilda from 2010 featuring filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Baz Luhrmann
    • Rita Hayworth: The Columbia Lady, a 2000 featurette on Hayworth’s career as an actor and dancer
    • Trailer
    • An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.