The Criterion Collection
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Featuring: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Delphine Seyrig, Angela Molina, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier, Julien Bertheau, Michel Lonsdale, André Weber, Stephane Audran, Maria Asquerino, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Ellen Bahl, Muni, David Rocha, Francois Maistre, Marai Gabriella Maione, Claude Pieplu, Monica Vitti, Michel Piccoli, Milena Vukotic, August Carrière, Bernard Musson, Valérie Blanco, Pierre Maguelon, Pierre Pieral, Georges Douking, Jacques Debary, Gerald Robard, Robert Le Beal
Year: 1972 | 1974 | 1977
Time: 101 | 104 | 104 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Release Date: January 05 2021
MSRP:
$99.95
Blu-ray
3 Discs | BD-50
1.66:1 ratio
1.66:1 ratio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
French 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Regions A
The Castaway of Providence Street (El náufrago de la calle Providencia), a 1971 homage to Luis Buñuel made by his longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo
Speaking of Buñuel (A propósito de Buñuel), a documentary from 2000 on Buñuel’s life and work
Trailer
Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere
Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme et le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based
Trailer
Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere
Trailer
Once Upon a Time: “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” a 2011 television program about the making of the film
Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Buñuel on five of his final seven films
Analysis of The Phantom of Liberty from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire
Essays by critic Adrian Martin and novelist and critic Gary Indiana, along with interviews with Luis Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent
Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, a 2012 short documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary
Episode of the French television program Pour le cinéma from 1972 that features behind-the-scenes footage of Luis Buñuel on set, along with interviews with the director and actors Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Fernando Rey, and Delphine Seyrig
Episode of the French television program Pour le cinéma from 1974 featuring actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Claude Brialy
Episode of the French television program Le dernier des cinq from 1974 featuring Jean-Claude Brialy
Episode of the Belgian television program Le monde du cinéma from 1977, featuring Jean-Claude Carriere, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman
Conversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Jean-Claude Carriere, Fernando Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli