Arrow Video, with
domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group,
looks to Nov. 27 for the delivery of a new 2K restoration Blu-ray edition (supervised
and approved by director of photography Andrew Dunn) of famed auteur filmmaker
Robert Altman’s 2001 Best Picture nominee, Gosford Park.
After the disastrous flop
of Dr.
T & the Women in 2000, which was proceeded by The Gingerbread Man in
1998, the long swords were out, Altman was done, too old … he had lost his
touch; his filmmaking gift.
Gosford Park proved them all wrong as it was a huge hit and
ended up with seven Oscar nominations — the aforementioned Best Picture nod
(losing out to A Beautiful Mind), plus Best Director (his fifth — MASH,
Nashville, The Player and Shorts Cut were the other four), two
for Best Supporting Actress, Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith and among others, a
win for Best Screenplay (Julian Fellowes, who would go onto to create and write
the hit TV series Downton Abbey).
Arrow Video’s Blu-ray
release features not one, but three separate commentary options. There are two vintage commentary tracks —
one featuring filmmaker Robert Altman, production designer Stephen Altman and
producer David Levy and the second with writer/producer Julian Fellowes— and a
newly-prepared commentary option teaming critics Geoff Andrew and David
Thompson (who also wrote “Altman on Altman”).
There are a whopping 15
deleted scenes (with optional commentary from Robert Altman), newly-prepared
video sessions with cast and crew members (unspecified), a vintage Q&A
sessions with Altman and members of the cast and two vintage featurettes — “The
Making of Gosford Park” and “Keeping Gosford Park Authentic.”
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