L'Avventura DVD Details

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Details

Release Date: 06/05/2001

Chapters: 87

Regions: 1

Screen: WSE/B&W

Sound Formats: 5.1/1

Languages: Italian

Number of sides: 2

DVD Studio: Criterion

Rating: NR

Format: DVD

Features

Disc 1:

Digital transfer with restored picture and sound

enhanced for 16x9 televisions

Audio commentary by film historian Gene Youngblood

New and improved English subtitle translation

Optional image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Disc 2:

Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials

a 58-minute documentary by Gianfranco Mingozzi

Writings by Antonioni

read by Jack Nicholson

plus Nicholson's personal recollections of the director

Original theatrical trailer

Restoration demonstration

A reprint of Antonioni's statements about L'Avventura

circulated after the film's premier at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival

and a new essay by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith