The correct release date is August 26, 2014. 2 editions are being released: a 3-disc (1 Blu-ray & 2 DVDS) and a 2-disc DVD set.
Here are the contents:
DISC FEATURES - New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed 3.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray Two audio commentaries: a feature-length one with editor Alan Heim and a scene-specific one with actor Roy Scheider Razzle-Dazzle, a new video essay on the film by critic Matt Zoller Seitz Episode from 1980 of the television talk show Tomorrow, featuring director Bob Fosse and choreographer Agnes de Mille New interview with Heim New interview with Fosse biographer Sam Wasson Interview excerpts and footage from the set, featuring Fosse and Scheider Portrait of a Choreographer, a 2007 documentary on Fosse The Soundtrack: Perverting the Standards, a 2007 documentary about the music in the film Interview from 2007 with George Benson about his song "On Broadway", which opens the film PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by theater critic Hilton Als More!
Very exciting -- the first MUST HAVE ASAP release in a while.
A surprise, too. There's been no hint or suggestion of this coming out.
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Okay...I'm confused by technology nowadays. When a movie is 4K does the disc still use Blu-ray technology to deliver the content (requiring a Blu-ray 4K player and a 4K television)? And from reading elsewhere is a new standard Blu-ray also being released that is made from the 4K master?
Long story short is the below what will be released? 1) Blu-ray at 4K resolution 2) Blu-ray at regular Blu-ray resolution made from the 4K master
I'm profoundly happy at this news. A friend took me to see a screening at the Museum of the Moving Image this past winter. It was my first time seeing it on a large screen, and it was magnificent. It's my favorite movie of all time, and it was wonderful to see it in a theater filled with people who also love it.
Morosco: The film was scanned and restored at 4k, which is good, because the bigger the scan, the more detail there is to work with, and the cleaner the transfer, as well as a healthy preservation of grain. This clean, sparkly new 4k transfer will be downscaled for the Blu-ray, which is slightly smaller than 2k, and this is also good, because it means that the Blu-ray is coming from an even better source. Many early Blu-rays came from 2k transfers, which leaves more room for error and isn't as precise.
I'm really looking forward to this release...I didn't really emotionally connect with the film when it came out in 1979 but now that I've got some years on me I find it very powerful and moving.
one of my ALL-TIME FAV movies too...the opening sequence "ON BROADWAY" tryout scene is so way much better than anything the movie version of A CHORUS LINE tried to do...to me it was as if FOSSE was saying "**** you" to the producers and director of that really awful version of CHORUS LINE...:)
one of my ALL-TIME FAV movies too...the opening sequence "ON BROADWAY" tryout scene is so way much better than anything the movie version of A CHORUS LINE tried to do...to me it was as if FOSSE was saying "**** you" to the producers and director of that really awful version of CHORUS LINE...:)
Well, the film ALL THAT JAZZ was released in 1979 and the film version of A CHORUS LINE was released in 1985, so if anything - the film version attempted to copy Bob Fosse's opening audition sequence. NOW, after saying all that, it IS said that Bob Fosse tried to trump Michael Bennett's opening audition sequence from the 1975 stage version of A CHORUS LINE so there was indeed a f**k you somewhere in there.