Ace in the Hole (1951)

[Akijama]

Ace in the Hole Blu-ray PRE-ORDER

Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
Portrait of a “60% Perfect Man”: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment
Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984
Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
Excerpts from an audio interview with Wilder’s coscreenwriter Walter Newman
Video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
Stills gallery
Trailer
PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin

Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

[Show spoiler]It seems that Criterion May lineup has leaked on Amazon.

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Other May releases include:

Red River
Like Someone in Love
Overlord
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou