Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 24, 2016
Price: DVD $29.99, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Criterion
A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (Tim Robbins, Code 46) finds himself caught up in a criminal situation that would fit right into one of his movie projects in the biting 1992 satire The Player, a late-career smash for the great Robert Altman (Nashville).
Mixing elements of film noir with sly insider comedy, The Player, based on a novel by Michael Tolkin, functions as both a nifty stylish murder story and a commentary on its own making, and it is stocked with a heroic supporting cast (Peter Gallagher, Whoopi Goldberg, Greta Scacchi, Dean Stockwell, Fred Ward) and a lineup of star cameos that make for an astonishing Hollywood Who’s Who.
This complexly woven grand entertainment (which kicks off with a rightfully acclaimed opening shot) was the film that marked Altman’s triumphant commercial comeback in the early 1990s.
Criterion’s new Blu-ray and DVD editions of the movie include the following:
- New 4K digital restoration, with DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 surround soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Audio commentary from 1992 featuring director Robert Altman, writer Michael Tolkin, and cinematographer Jean Lépine
- Interview with Altman from 1992
- New interviews with Tolkin and production designer Stephen Altman
- Cannes Film Festival press conference from 1992 with cast and crew
- “The Player” at LACMA, a short documentary about the shooting of the film’s fund-raiser scene
- Map to the Stars,a gallery dedicated to the cameo appearances in the film
- Deleted scenes and outtakes
- The film’s opening shot, with alternate commentaries by Altman, Lépine, and Tolkin
- Trailers
- An essay by author Sam Wasson
Buy or Rent The Player
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