M [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]
Features:
- Disc One - The Film:
- new, restored high-definition Digital transfer, presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.19:1
- Audio commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes, author of the BFI film classics volume on M, and Eric Rentschler, author of The Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: a 32-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stanley Kauffmann, a 1963 interview with Lang, the script for a missing scene, and contemporaneous newspaper articles
- Disc Two - The Supplements:
- Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin
- Claude Chabrol's M le maudit, a short film inspired by M, plus an interview with Chabrol by Pierre-Henri Gibert about Lang's filmmaking techniques
- Classroom tapes of M editor Paul Falkenberg discussing the film and its history
- Interview with Harold Nebenzal, the son of M producer Seymour Nebenzal
- A physical history of M
- Stills gallery, with behind-the-scenes photos, and production sketches by art director Emil Hasler
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- Side #1 -- Disc One: The Film
- Play the Movie
- Chapters
- Commentary
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- Index
- Lang and Sound
- Mass Contagion
- The Abstract City
- Ernst Gennat
- A Culture of Nervousness
- The Trauma of WWI
- Refuse
- Peer Gynt
- Subtitles
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- Side #2 -- Disc Two: The Supplements
- Conversation With Fritz Lang
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- Index
- Claude Chabrol's M Le Maudit
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- Chabrol Interview
- Harold Nebenzal Interview
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- Paul Falkenberg's Classroom Tapes
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- A Physical History of M
- Stills Gallery
- Index
- The Crime
- The Search
- Capture
- The Trial
- Posters and Documents
- Subtitles
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- Side #1 -- Disc One: The Film
- 1. Elsie Beckmann [8:17]
- 2. Who Is the Murderer? [5:43]
- 3. Investigations [7:10]
- 4. "Show Me Your Papers" [8:25]
- 5. Cops Everywhere [12:41]
- 6. Interfering With Business [4:47]
- 7. Hans Beckert's Apartment [9:36]
- 8. Peer Gynt Suite [2:27]
- 9. The Mark [2:00]
- 10. Abandoned Offices [5:20]
- 11. Surrounded [9:18]
- 12. Alarm [2:30]
- 13. Interrogation [2:50]
- 14. The Hideout [9:25]
- 15. Kangaroo Court [3:45]
- 16. Color Bars [16:34]
- Side #2 -- Disc Two: The Supplements
- 1. 1917-1918 [12:05]
- 2. 1925 [6:50]
- 3. 1931 [10:19]
- 4. 1933 [18:35]
- 5. 1975 [1:35]
Year released: 1931
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 110
Sound: DD1
Subtitles: Eng
Studio: Criterion