Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) (4K Mastered, Criterion Collection, 2 DVDs)

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A cornerstone of the French New Wave, the first feature from Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad) is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Amour's Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Woman in the Dunes' Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming mutual fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. With an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras (India Song), Hiroshima mon amour is a moody masterwork that delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish.

DVD Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restoration
- Audio commentary by film historian Peter Cowie
- Interviews with director Alain Resnais from 1961 and 1980
- Interviews with actor Emmanuelle Riva from 1959 and 2003
- New interview with film scholar François Thomas, author of L'atelier d'Alain Resnais
- New interview with music scholar Tim Page about the film's score
- Revoir Hiroshima..., a 2013 program about the film's restoration
- New English subtitle translation
- Plus: An essay by critic Kent Jones and excerpts from a 1959 Cahiers du cinéma roundtable discussion about the film