The Dead 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray presents John Huston’s elegiac final film, adapted from James Joyce’s masterful short story. Set during a snowy Dublin winter at the turn of the twentieth century, the film unfolds over a family gathering filled with music, warmth, and ritual. Only later, in the privacy of their hotel room, does Gretta (Anjelica Huston) reveal a long-buried secret to her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann), transforming the evening’s festivities into a meditation on memory, longing, and the quiet ache of lives once lived. Bathed in nostalgia and melancholy, The Dead stands as Huston’s moving farewell—a poetic reflection on love, loss, and the passage of time.

Film Info
United Kingdom, United States
1987
83 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
Spine #1295

The Dead [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray] w/o slip

Name: The Dead [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray] w/o slip
Brand: Criterion Collection

$59.99

$52.99

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4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Fred Murphy, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New interview with author Colum McCann on the James Joyce short story and its adaptation
• New 2K restoration of John Huston and the Dubliners (1987), a behind-the-scenes documentary by Lilyan Sievernich
• Audio excerpts from actor Anjelica Huston’s 2014 memoir Watch Me
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky and a 1987 piece by screenwriter Tony Huston on the making of the film

Cover by Leanne Shapton
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