Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 19, 2015
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Bette Midler (The Showgirl Must Go On) exploded onto the screen with her take-no-prisoners performance in the 1979 music-filled drama The Rose, one of the great Seventies films about fame and addiction from director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond).
Bette Midler is The Rose
Midler is Janis Joplin-ish rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Incisively scripted by Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and beautifully shot by Blow Out’s Vilmos Zsigmond (with assistance on the dazzling concert scenes by a host of other world-class cinematographers, including Conrad L. Hall, László Kovács, Owen Roizman, and Haskell Wexler), The Rose is a sensitively drawn and emotionally effective melodrama that transformed popular musical star Midler into a movie star as well.
Criterion’s DVD and Blu-ray editions of the movie contain the following:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Vilmos Zsigmond, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD master audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary featuring director Mark Rydell
• New interviews with Rydell, Zsigmond, and Bette Midler
• Archival interviews with Midler and Rydell, with on-set footage
• An essay by music critic Paula Mejia
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FINALLY! We get The Rose the way it should be seen and heard! Bette Midler’s finest accomplishment!
Absolutely LOVE this film. I saw it on the big screen when it was originally released (I was a wide-eyed teen back then.) Bette Midler totally deserved her Oscar nomination for her Joplinesque role as a doomed rock star. I still cry when I hear the Golden Globe original song winner “The Rose” and will be adding The Criterion Collection version to my library. I cannot wait to hear what Bette has to say in the interview extras. Thanks for the heads up.