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King Lear: Criterion Collection

King Lear: Criterion Collection

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 Actors: Woody Allen, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, Jean-Luc Godard, Norman Mailer, Burgess Meredith
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Language: ENGLISH: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Number of Discs: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Orig Release Date: 1987
Studio: Criterion
Release Date: 2/4/2025
Run Time: 90 Min.
Special Features:
  • Richard Brody Interview (HD, 31 minutes) - In this recently recorded 2024 interview, New Yorker film critic Richard Brody (author of "Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard") explains why he considers Godard's King Lear to be both the culmination of the director's thematic explorations of the 1980s and the greatest film of all time.
  • Peter Sellars Interview (HD, 25 minutes) - Another newly recorded interview, this time with actor Peter Sellars, now a New York theater and opera director. Sellars discusses the career and films of Godard, the filmmaker's approach to Lear, and his time on location filming. The rest of the featurette wanders down tangents a bit but everything points back to Lear, its meaning(s) and Sellars' memories of shooting.
  • Molly Ringwald Interview (HD, 19 minutes) - My favorite of the interviews finds Ringwald reflecting on her life when she was cast in King Lear, her earliest encounters with Godard's work and her first time meeting the filmmaker, and of course her time shooting what would become a divisive, easily misunderstood masterpiece.
  • Cannes Press Conference (HD, 36 minutes) - An audio recording of the film's 1987 Cannes press conference with Godard, who speaks rather eloquently about the film as he attempts to answer questions without offering those asking too many answers about the layers and intent of King Lear.
  • Booklet - with an essay by Brody.
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