That Cold Day In The Park Limited Edition Blu-Ray

Robert Altman's underrated psychosexual chiller That Cold Day in the Park, made after several years directing television and industrial films - and just one year before his commercial breakthrough with M*A*S*H - is undoubtedly the first real "Altman film" and a stylish precursor to the themes that would resonate in many of the director's later masterpieces such as Images and 3 Women.

On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Oscar winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a shy virgin who has been shielded from the sexual revolution going on outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with a mysterious 19-year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. She invites him to her apartment to bathe and feed him, but Frances' repressed fantasies soon boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches... no matter what.Based on Richard Miles' novel by British author Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys), Altman skillfully turns the screws in this thrilling tale of sexual oppression, the chilly locations of Vancouver vividly photographed by László Kovács in the same year he filmed Easy Rider, and accompanied by a captivating film score by Johnny Mandel, shortly before he wrote the anthem "Suicide Is Painless" for Altman's next film.

Extras TWO-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

- Reversible slipcase with original and newly commissioned artwork by Tom Ralston

- Illustrated booklet with new texts by Brad Stevens, Anna Bogutskaya, and James Flower, original press notes including an essay by Altman and an excerpt from David Thompson's Altman on Altman

DISK ONE

- High-definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation

- Lossless mono audio in the original

- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

- New audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan

- Isolated music and effects track in lossless mono

- Crazy in the Rain: Altman's Vancouver, a newly produced featurette revisiting the filming locations by Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

- Archival interview with film critic and historian David Thompson, author of Altman on Altman

- Extended scenes from an advance copy of the film, never before seen on home video

- Over ten minutes of behind-the-scenes footage with Altman and Dennis, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation archives

- Theatrical trailer

- Photo gallery

DISC TV (EXCLUSIVE TO LIMITED EDITION)

- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of a newly extended 114-minute version of the film that reinstates previously deleted material from a surviving pre-release print

- Lossless original mono audio

- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing