Day for Night - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
This affectionate farce from François Truffaut about the joys and strife of moviemaking is one of his most beloved films.
Truffaut himself appears as the harried director of a frivolous melodrama, the shooting of which is plagued by the whims of a neurotic actor (Jean-Pierre Léaud), an aging but still forceful Italian diva (Valentina Cortese), and a British ingenue haunted by personal scandal (Jacqueline Bisset). An irreverent paean to the prosaic craft of cinema as well as a delightful human comedy about the pitfalls of sex and romance, Day for Night is buoyed by robust performances and a sparkling score by the legendary Georges Delerue.
Region B Blu-ray : Australian compatible
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Pierre-William Glenn, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New visual essay by filmmaker :: kogonada
- New interviews with Glenn and assistant editor Martine Barraqué
- New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew
- Documentary on the film from 2003, featuring film scholar Annette Insdorf
- Archival interviews with director François Truffaut, editor Yann Dedet, and actors Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nathalie Baye, Jacqueline Bisset, Dani, and Bernard Menez
- Archival television footage about the film, including footage of Truffaut on the set
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic David Cairns