Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 30, 2016
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $27.99
Studio: Criterion
Originally broadcast on French television and later released in theaters, the 1968 drama The Immortal Story, Orson Welles’s first color film and final completed fictional feature, is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen (Babette’s Feast).
Orson Welles in The Immortal Story
Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.
Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau (Jules and Jim), this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant (Masculin féminin) and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles’s artistic interests—a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality.
Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of the film contain the following:
• New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English-language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Alternate French-language version of the film
• Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
• Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif
• New interview with actor Norman Eshley
• Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant
• New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas
• An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
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