Targets (The Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Targets (The Criterion Collection)Genre: Mystery & SuspenseLabel: The Criterion CollectionDescription: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood and screen horror with real-life horror in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES * New 2K digital restoration supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich with uncompressed monaural soundtrack * Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich * New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater * Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich * Excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt * English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing * PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-Makers