Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)(Criterion Collection) on Blu-ray

Actor: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1979
Studio: Criterion
Length: 95
Released: 03/28/2023
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Color

The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver—one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s—digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti–romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie’s best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles (John Heard) and his married-but-separated coworker Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps never was. Switching deftly between past and present, Micklin Silver guides this piercing deconstruction of male wish-fulfillment fantasy beyond standard movie-romance tropes into something more complicated and cuttingly truthful.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
-New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
-New program featuring producers Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson
-Documentary from 1983 by Katja Raganelli about director Joan Micklin Silver
-Excerpts of a 2005 interview with Micklin Silver
-Original ending of the film, cut by Micklin Silver for its rerelease in 1982
-Trailer
-English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
-PLUS: An essay by scholar Shonni Enelow