Rebecca (1940)

[Akijama]

Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart’s desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerability by Laurence Olivier). But upon moving to Manderley—her groom’s baroque ancestral mansion—she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well. The start of Hitchcock’s legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 1990 featuring film scholar Leonard J. Leff
Isolated music and effects track
New conversation between film critic and author Molly Haskell and scholar Patricia White
New interview with special effects historian Craig Barron on the visual effects in Rebecca
Documentary from 2007 on the making of Rebecca
Screen, hair, makeup, and costume tests including actors Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter,
Vivien Leigh, Margaret Sullavan, and Loretta Young
Casting gallery annotated by director Alfred Hitchcock and producer David O. Selznick
Television interviews with Hitchcock and Fontaine from 1973 and 1980
Audio interviews from 1986 with actor Judith Anderson and Fontaine
Three radio adaptations of Rebecca, from 1938, 1941, and 1950, including Orson Welles’s version for the Mercury Theatre
Theatrical rerelease trailer
PLUS: An essay by critic and Selznick biographer David Thomson and selected production correspondence, including letters between Hitchcock and Selznick

https://www.criterion.com/films/680-rebecca

[Show spoiler]

The listed date is September 5.

The page dissapeared, but I took a screenshot.

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Last edited by Scottie; 06-16-2017 at 09:59 PM. Reason: Fixed a couple of links.

[im hedwig, etcetera]

already have it on bluray

[Cremildo]

Glad I held off buying the current Blu-ray. To me, this is Hitchcock's best, thoroughly deserving of Criterion treatment.

[Akijama]

This is a brand new 4K restoration, btw.

[Darth Marcus]

Time to sell my current MGM blu then.

[IPreferPi]

Own the MGM triple pack with Rebecca, Notorious, and Spellbound but will be happy to double dip for a Criterion Rebecca. One of Hitchcock's very best.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by im hedwig, etcetera

already have it on bluray

Me too, but Criterion makes some of the best products. Worth buying again.

[sminister]

wow! wonder if Notorious will get a release too...

[im hedwig, etcetera]

Originally Posted by sminister

wow! wonder if Notorious will get a release too...

i hope not

[Ray_Rogers]

Nice. Keeping the OOP MGM releases.
Notorious and Spellbound should also be released too. Why not a boxset with all Hitchcock released by Criterion?

[Walts Ghost]

Awesome news!

[LetsGetATaco]

I assume this means Spellbound and Notorious are coming back as well!

[L'armée des ombres]

Great...i will gladly double dip

[Scottie]

Originally Posted by sminister

wow! wonder if Notorious will get a release too...

It's been rumored for a while now that Criterion had reacquired the MGM catalogue. Straw Dogs was the first film to be announced and now Rebecca.

It is safe to assume that Notorious, Spellbound, and The Silence of the Lambs will follow suit.

[happydood]

Huh. Will wait to see reviews. I'm pretty pleased with the MGM.

[imsounoriginal]

Never loved this as much as other Hitch movies, so I'll probably stick with my MGM three-pack.

[IPreferPi]

Originally Posted by iScottie

It's been rumored for a while now that Criterion had reacquired the MGM catalogue. Straw Dogs was the first film to be announced and now Rebecca.

It is safe to assume that Notorious, Spellbound, and The Silence of the Lambs will follow suit.

If this is true, could also mean we'll get Robocop as well (although there is nothing wrong with the 25th Anniversary MGM Blu)

[Herry Dunston]

Originally Posted by IPreferPi

If this is true, could also mean we'll get Robocop as well!

Robocop had a pretty meaty blu-ray release. I'm okay with it not getting the Criterion treatment.

[im hedwig, etcetera]

Originally Posted by iScottie

It's been rumored for a while now that Criterion had reacquired the MGM catalogue. Straw Dogs was the first film to be announced and now Rebecca.

It is safe to assume that Notorious, Spellbound, and The Silence of the Lambs will follow suit.

should i sell the 3 mgm movies then while they still have value

[javi92]

All over this like white on rice.