Victor Sjöström’s Hollywood Masterworks Blu-ray (Criterion Collection) [Preorder]

Preorder scheduled for release on February 9, 2027

Having established himself as Sweden’s leading silent-era director, Victor Sjöström was beckoned to America, where he brought daring dramatic intensity, searing expressionistic visuals, and a profound feeling for landscape and the often overwhelming power of the natural world to the three landmarks of early Hollywood cinema gathered here. Built around indelible, startlingly modern performances from Lon Chaney (He Who Gets Slapped) and Lillian Gish (The Scarlet Letter, The Wind), these darkly atmospheric tales of madness, sexual repression, moral hypocrisy, self-annihilation, and human redemption share a vision of the world as ruled by chaos and struggle.

THREE-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 2K digital restoration of He Who Gets Slapped, with a new score composed and performed by Matti Bye
• New 2K digital restoration of The Scarlet Letter, with score
• New 4K digital restoration of The Wind (1928 theatrical-release version), preserved and digitally restored by the Museum of Modern Art, with original soundtrack
• New 2K digital restoration of The Wind (1983 variable-frame-rate version), with a score by Carl Davis
• New audio commentary on He Who Gets Slapped featuring critic Kenneth Turan
• New video essay on director Victor Sjöström’s work in Hollywood
• New interview with critic Farran Smith Nehme on actor Lillian Gish
• Archival introduction to The Wind by Gish
• New interview with film historian George Feltenstein on the scores for The Wind
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Pamela Hutchinson
  

  
  New cover by Raphael Geroni

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