Red Desert (1964) - (The Criterion Collection - #522) [DVD9] [2010]

Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age—about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti, wandering through a bleak industrial landscape beset by power plants and environmental toxins, and tentatively flirting with her husband’s coworker, played by Richard Harris—continues to keep viewers spellbound. With one startling, painterly composition after another—of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, looming docked ships—Red Desert creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema’s preeminent poet of the modern age.





MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Michelangelo Antonioni
COUNTRY: Italy
YEAR: 1964

Cast & Credits

Cast

Giuliana Monica Vitti
Corrado Zeller Richard Harris
Ugo Carlo Chionetti
Linda Xenia Valderi
Valerio Valerio Bartoleschi
Emilia Rita Renoir


Credits
Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenplay Michelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra
Producer Antonio Cervi
Cinematography Carlo Di Palma
Music Giovanni Fusco
Camera operator Dario Di Palma
Editing Eraldo Da Roma
Art director Piero Poletto
Set decorator Sergio Donà





DVD:
DVD RELEASE: June 22, 2010
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 522
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.85:1
Color
AUDIO: Italian Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 117 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS file
FILE SIZE: 7.71 GB
DVD Label Scan (600 DPI TIFF): 25 MB



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Disc Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
Archival interviews with director Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
Two short documentaries by Antonioni: Gente del Po, about a barge trip down the Po River, and N.U. about urban street cleaners
Dailies from the original production
Theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation