The Phantom of Liberty (1974) - (The Criterion Collection - #290) [DVD9] [2005]

Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.







Cast
Sister of the 1st police commissioner/Lady in black Adriana Asti
1st police commissioner Julien Bertheau
M. Foucauld Jean-Claude Brialy
M. Legendre’s physician Adolfo Celi
Mlle Rosenblum Anne-Marie Deschott
Innkeeper Paul Frankeur
The sniper Pierre Lary
The hatter Michel Lonsdale
The police academy instructor Francois Maistre
The Foucaulds’ nursemaid Muni
Old aunt Hélène Perdrière
The 2nd police commissioner Michel Piccoli
Chief of police Claude Piéplu
M. Legendre Jean Rochefort
French Army captain Bernard Verley
Mme Foucauld Monica Vitti
Nurse Milena Vukotic


Credits
Director Luis Buñuel
Screenplay Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
Producer Serge Silberman
Assistant directors Jacques Frankel and Pierre Lary
Cinematography Edmond Richard
Production design Pierre Guffroy
Sound Guy Villette
Costume design Jacqueline Guyot
Makeup Monique Archambault
Editing Hélène Plemiannikov
Production manager Ully Pickard









MOVIE:
ORIGINAL TITLE: Le fantôme de la liberté
DIRECTOR: Luis Buñuel
COUNTRY: France
YEAR: 1974

DVD:
DVD RELEASE: May 24, 2005
STUDIO: Criterion
SYSTEM: NTSC
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 104 minutes

EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Fab
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: .ISO (Image)
SCANS: Full Art Scan + Booklet
SCANS FORMAT: PDF (FROM ORIGINAL 800DPI)
BOOKLET FORMAT: PDF (FROM ORIGINAL 800DPI)
SCANS FILE SIZE: 59.1 MBs
TOTAL FILE SIZE: 7.08 GBs

DISC FEATURES:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Video introduction by screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Original theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A 32-page booklet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Indiana and a reprinted interview with Buñuel