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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Featuring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Seymour Cassel, Seu Jorge
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew-Team Zissou-set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou's partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline co-pilot, who may or may not be Zissou's son (Owen Wilson), a beautiful journalist (Cate Blanchett) assigned to write a profile of Zissou, and his estranged wife and co-producer, Eleanor (Anjelica Huston). They face overwhelming complications, including pirates, kidnapping, and bankruptcy. Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson (2001, The Royal Tenenbaums, Best Original Screenplay) has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure-comedy.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Surround 5.1
English DTS 5.1
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
French
Spanish
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Interview, Video Presentation, Video Journal, Deleted Scenes, Featurette, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- Audio commentary by Wes Anderson and cowriter Noah Baumbach
- This Is an Adventure, a documentary chronicling the film’s production
- Mondo Monda, an Italian talk show featuring an interview with Anderson and Baumbach
- Interview with composer Mark Mothersbaugh
- Singer-actor Seu Jorge performing David Bowie songs in Portuguese
- Intern video journal by actor Matthew Gray Gubler
- Interviews with the cast and crew
- Deleted scenes
- "Starz on Set" featurette
- Stills gallery
- Trailer
- An insert featuring a conversation between Wes and Eric conducted in 2005
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Release Credits
Artwork: Eric Anderson
Producer: Susan Arosteguy
Release Notes on Restoration
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. The original 35mm cut negative was scanned at 4K resolution on an Imagica “Imager” XE Scanner. The final down-sampled 2K files were color corrected using a da Vinci 2k Color Corrector and recorded at an HD 24-frame progressive D5. The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the original magnetic tracks. Enhanced for widescreen televisions, this transfer was supervised by Wes Anderson and director of photography Robert Yeoman. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest possible bitrate for the quantity of materials included.