Don’t Look Now. Nicolas Roeg, 1973.
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Edition screened: Optimum Blu-ray, released 2011. English language and Donald Sutherland’s third-semester Italian. Runtime approximately 110 minutes.
Edition screened: Optimum Blu-ray, released 2011. English language and Donald Sutherland’s third-semester Italian. Runtime approximately 110 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence toward animals.
Don’t Look Now is a complex and captivating film with a reputation that grows every year as increasing numbers of people seem willing to just sit down, shut up, and watch. The first ten minutes or so comprise one of the best and meticulously over-written passages in screenplay history.
Extra features on the Optimum Blu-ray include various interviews and Danny Boyle’s 2009 5-minute condensation of the film with a pushy new soundtrack, establishing conclusively that the trivializing idiocy of da remix is not limited to pop music.
A worthwhile bonus feature is “Sex and Death,” a 16-minute excerpt from a larger documentary called Nothing As It Seems. In “Sex and Death” noted British psychiatrist and author Colin Murray Parkes illuminates aspects of the bereavement process as depicted in Don’t Look Now, and in doing so untangles some of the film’s mysteries without ruining the fun. This appears to be a made-for-BBC production from the mid 70s, but no information is provided or readily available about the creators or larger scope of Nothing As It Seems. One would hope that the complete documentary explores various aspects of this seminal work or of the director’s larger filmography, and might be included in its entirety with some future release of Don’t Look Now.