LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: English SDH
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition /
2.35:1
AUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA
1958 / Color and B & W
94
MINUTES
UNRATED
REGION FREE
Limited Edition of 3,000 Units
Special
Features: Isolated Score Track / Domestic Trailer with Francoise Sagan Interview
“Arguably Preminger’s masterpiece.” —Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader
“One of the most gorgeous films ever made.” —New York Magazine
“One of the great underappreciated films of the 1950s.” —Nick Pinkerton, The
Village Voice
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) is producer/director Otto Preminger’s widescreen
adaptation of the provocative best-seller by Françoise Sagan about a jaded
17-year-old (Jean Seberg) who wreaks havoc when she begins manipulating her
playboy father’s love life. David Niven as the careless roué and Deborah Kerr as
the elegant new object of his affections also share the screen with
cinematographer Georges Périnal’s stunning color vistas of an idyllic French
Riviera and more melancholy black-and-white views of a lovely but chilly Paris.
Georges Auric contributes an appropriately bluesy score, supporting Preminger’s
influential take on the lives of the rich and reckless.
LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: English SDH
VIDEO: 1080p High Definition /
2.55:1
AUDIO: English 4.0 DTS-HD MA
1955 / Color
104
MINUTES
UNRATED
REGION FREE
Limited Edition of 3,000 Units
Special Features: Isolated Score Track / Trailers and TV Spot
“Lana Turner as the titled trollop…has the role of temptress down pat.
Burton’s portrayal of the dedicated Indian doctor who falls in love with Turner
has strength and conviction and is underplayed intelligently.” —Variety
“Boasts color CinemaScope…an all-star cast…Oscar-nominated special
effects…Turner offers a sultry, overtly sexual interpretation…Burton is
surprisingly good in a role that could easily backfire on an Anglo actor…the
special effects are the main attraction and the melodrama’s raison d’être.” —TV
Guide
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)—based on a Louis Bromfield novel and an earlier
Twentieth Century Fox hit, The Rains Came (1939)—is a juicy, full-bore
melodrama, directed by Fox’s own master of the genre, the great Jean Negulesco.
Starring Lana Turner as a heartless vixen who first lures, then falls in love
with an honorable Indian physician (Richard Burton), the film plays out against
the magnificent sweep of the Indian subcontinent, torn by the harsher powers of
nature and lushly photographed by Milton Krasner. Also starring Fred MacMurray
as a potentially heroic drunk, Michael Rennie as Turner’s cruelly cuckolded
husband, Eugenie Leontovich as a worldly-wise Maharani, and Joan Caulfield as a
loyal innocent, the film is further highlighted by a romantic score from the
incomparable Hugo Friedhofer (available here as an isolated track) and thrilling
special effects that were nominated for an Academy Award.
Both titles street on November 13th, so be sure to grab one of these super limited titles right here at
Screen Archives Entertainment.
Over the past couple years, Twilight Time has gradually built a
catalog rich with classics from decades past. The Big Heat and Blake Edwards'
High Time are two films of note that I've had the pleasure of watching that were by the
company and now it's on to my third Blu-ray with the release of Otto Preminger's
Bonjour Tristesse. My only experience with Preminger is with the star-studded,
head-spinner, Skidoo, but thankfully he's made some much better films with
Bonjour Tristesse being one of his finer, earlier efforts.
