Last Year at Marienbad 4K

4K BLU-RAY DISC

• Commentary - this audio commentary was recorded by novelist and critic Tim Lucas.
  

BLU-RAY DISC

• Commentary - this audio commentary was recorded by novelist and critic Tim Lucas.
  
• Interview with Volker Schlondorff - in this archival program, Volker Schlöndorff, who served as a second assistant director on Last Year at Marienbad, recalls how he was hired for the job (which apparently requited that he adheres to the communist views of Alain Resnais and his assistants), and discusses the film's ambiguous script, the overlapping of elusive events throughout the film, the shooting process and the director's working methods, etc. There are also some observations about the evolving nature of film making at the time. The interview was conducted exclusively for Kino Lorber in 2019. In English, not subtitled. (33 min).
  
• Last Year at Marienbad A to Z - in this archival visual essay, James Quandt, programmer for the TIFF Cinematheque, examines the conception of Last Year at Marienbad and then attempts to solve a number of its enigmas. The essay was created exclusively for Kino Lorber in 2019. In English, not subtitled. (52 min).
  
• Memories of Last Year at Marienbad - this documentary focuses on the production history of Last Year at Marienbad, and features an enormous amount of raw footage from the shooting of the film that was captured on 8mm stock. In German, with optional English subtitles. (49 min, 1080p).
  
• All the Memory of the World/Toute la memoire du monde (1956) - a poetic piece about the French national library in Paris and the archiving of memory that looks forward to Alain Resnais's later films Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad. In French, with English subtitles. (22 min).
  
• Trailer - a vintage French trailer for Last Year at Marienbad. Remastered. In French, with imposed English subtitles. (4 min, 1080p).
  
• Additional Trailers - trailers for the following releases from Kino Lorber's catalog:
  • 1. Woman in Chains
  • 2. The Nun