The Piano Blu-ray

Release Year: 1993

Runtime: 120 min

Director: Jane Campion

Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis

Studios: CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Special Features:

New

restored 4K digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Jane Campion and director of photography Stuart Dryburgh, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.

Audio commentary

featuring Campion and producer Jan Chapman.

New conversation

between Campion and film critic Amy Taubin.

New interviews

with Dryburgh, production designer Andrew McAlpine, and Maori adviser Waihoroi Shortland.

Interview

with actor Holly Hunter on working with Campion.

“The Piano” at 25

a program featuring a conversation between Campion and Chapman.

Interview

with composer Michael Nyman.

Excerpts

from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson.

Inside “The Piano,”

a featurette including interviews with Hunter and actors Harvey Keitel and Sam Neill.

The Water Diary,

a 2006 short film by Campion.

Trailer

New English

subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

PLUS:

An essay by critic Carmen Gray.

Technical Specifications:

• 5.1 SURROUND
• DTS-HD Master Audio