Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, announced this past week that a new 2K film restoration from the original camera negative (personally approved by director Douglas Trumbull) of Trumbull’s spring of 1972 sci-fi tale, Silent Running, will be available on Blu-ray on Nov. 17.
Douglas Trumbull had gained acclaimed as a f/x and visual effects wizard with his work on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andromeda Strain, and was given the opportunity to direct for the first time. The cast included Bruce Dern in the lead, with support coming from Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin and Jesse Vint … filming took place, not in an elaborately build set, but in the interior of the decommissioned aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Valley Forge — if you think about it, that makes perfect sense for a spacecraft on a long “voyage.”
Of note, other members of the film crew making their debuts, were both Michael Cimino (future Oscar-winner for The Deer Hunter) and John Dykstra (Oscar-winning for his work on Star Wars and Spider-Man 2).
As to bonus goodies for the Blu-ray release of Silent Running, Arrow Video is providing two commentary options — a vintage commentary teaming Trumbull with Bruce Dern and a newly-prepared commentary option with film critics Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw.
Additionally, there are a half-dozen featurettes — “No Turning Back,” “First Run,” “The Making of Silent Running,” “Silent Running by Douglas Trumbull,” “Douglas Trumbull: Then and Now” and “A Conversation with Bruce Dern” — and extensive still galleries.
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