filmmaker Mike Leigh

New conversation between director Jan Troell and film historian Peter Cowie

New interviews with actor Eddie Axberg and producer and screenwriter Bengt Forslund

Interlude in Marshland, a 1965 short film by Troell, starring Max von Sydow

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by film scholar Mark Le Fanu The Black Stallion



This remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley's classic children's novel by Carroll Ballardin which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horseis a cinematic tour de force. From the crystalline shores of a deserted island in the Arabian Sea to the green grass and dusty roads of 1930s suburban New York, Ballard and director of photography Caleb Deschanel create a film of consistent visual invention and purity, alsofeaturing a winning supporting performance by Mickey Rooney as a retired jockey and a gorgeous score by Carmine Coppola.



Special Features: New 4K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Caleb Deschanel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Five short films by Carroll Ballard, with introductions by the director: Pigs! (1965), The Perils of Priscilla (1969), Rodeo (1969), Seems Like Only Yesterday (1971), and Crystallization (1974)

New conversation between Ballard and film critic Scott Foundas

New interview with Deschanel

New piece featuring photographer Mary Ellen Mark discussing her images from the film's set

Trailer

PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Sragow My Beautiful Laundrette



Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the