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The Bird With The Crystal Plumage
Limited Edition, 2-Disc Limited Edition
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Product Description
In 1970, young first-time director Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) made his indelible mark on Italian cinema with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage a film which redefined the 'giallo' genre of murder-mystery thrillers and catapulted him to international stardom.
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante, We Own the Night), an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman (Eva Renzi, Funeral in Berlin) in a modern art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows increasingly obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key to identifying the maniac terrorizing Rome, he launches his own investigation parallel to that of the police, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall, Spasmo)...
A staggeringly assured debut, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage establishes the key traits that would define Argento's filmography, including lavish visuals and a flare for wildly inventive, brutal scenes of violence. With sumptuous cinematography by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and a seductive score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (Once Upon a Time in the West), this landmark film has never looked or sounded better in this new, 4K-restored limited edition from Arrow Video!
LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the camera negative in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio, produced by Arrow Video exclusively for this release
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original mono Italian and English soundtracks (lossless on the Blu-ray Disc)
- English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack
- New audio commentary by Troy Howarth, author of So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films
- The Power of Perception, a new visual essay on the cinema of Dario Argento by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, author of Devil s Advocates: Suspiria and Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
- New analysis of the film by critic Kat Ellinger
- New interview with writer/director Dario Argento
- New interview with actor Gildo Di Marco (Garullo the pimp)
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Candice Tripp
- Limited edition 60-page booklet illustrated by Matthew Griffin, featuring an appreciation of the film by Michael Mackenzie, and new writing by Howard Hughes and Jack Seabrook
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.12 Ounces
- Item model number : SnOYcvS2237zyXTH
- Director : Dario Argento
- Media Format : Anamorphic, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 36 minutes
- Release date : June 20, 2017
- Actors : Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Eva Renzi
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Arrow Video
- ASIN : B00S807RIM
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #145,715 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #4,520 in Horror (Movies & TV)
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The striking Tony Musante stars as Sam Dalmas, an American author living in Italy who witnesses the attempted murder of an art gallery owner (Eva Renzi) and becomes embroiled in an investigation to finger the identity of a black-coated, black-gloved slasher terrorizing Rome. Few directors make movies as intoxicating as Dario Argento. His worlds (usually set in various exotic European cities) are immersive and dreamlike. His visuals and framing are rapturous, foreboding paintings come to life. His murder-mysteries are involving and lurid, often provocatively exploring sexuality, gender, and the finicky notions of point-of-view and memory. As for his mesmerizing horror set-pieces, they are frightening, tension-rich tour de forces which earned him the moniker of being "the Italian Hitchcock." He was something more than that, though, and his films of the '70s and '80s, especially, were helmed in a singular style unmistakably his own.
Arrow Video's new limited-edition Blu-ray is pure cinema nirvana, coming with a gorgeous new 4K restoration, an invaluable audio commentary from film historian Troy Howarth (author of "So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films"), multiple insightful video essays, and a wonderful new 2017 interview with Argento himself. Can you tell I could gush over THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and Argento and the giallo genre all day?
The 2017 Arrow Video Limited Edition is truly superb. Starting with the excellent packaging: a blu-ray, DVD and lobby card reproductions are housed in a plastic case that sits within a sturdy cardboard slip along with a poster reproduction and book of essays. The discs come with many great extras, my favorites being the commentary by Argento-phile Troy Howarth, and a new, surprisingly frank 30 minute interview with the director. And as for the film transfer... it's by far the best ever done. It's clean, vividly-detailed, color saturated and looks great in motion. English AND Italian-dubbed tracks with subtitles are provided.


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