Red Desert (Blu-ray - 2010) [The Criterion Collection]

Product Description
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and RED DESERT, his first color film, remains one of his greatest. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age--about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed by Antonioni muse Monica Vitti (L'avventura), 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 (This Sporting Life)--continues to exert force over viewers. With one startling, painterly composition after another--of abandoned fishing cottages, electrical towers, overwhelming docked ships--RED DESERT creates a nearly apocalyptic image of its time, and confirms Antonioni as cinema's preeminent poet of the modern age.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed

Special Featuresbr> New, restored high-definition digital transfer
Uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary by Italian film scholar David Forgacs
Archival video interviews with Michelangelo Antonioni and actress Monica Vitti
Outtakes from the film's production
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film historian Mark Le Fanu
An interview with Antonioni by Jean-Luc Godard
A reprinted essay by Antonioni on his use of color
And more!