Night and Fog 08/16 Blu-ray (Rental)

Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour) documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek in Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust. Juxtaposing the stillness of the abandoned camps empty buildings with haunting wartime footage, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of humanity s violence against humanity, and presents the devastating suggestion that such horrors could occur again. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - Excerpt from a 1994 audio interview with director Alain Resnais - New interview with documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer - Face aux fantômes, a ninety-nine-minute 2009 documentary featuring historian Sylvie Lindeperg that explores the French memory of the Holocaust and the controversy surrounding the film s release - New English subtitle translation - PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe