Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 14, 2015
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The 1979 family adventure film The Black Stallion is a remarkable adaptation of Walter Farley’s classic children’s novel directed by Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home)—in which an American boy is rescued after a shipwreck off the coast of North Africa by a seemingly untamable wild horse.
From the crystalline shores of a deserted island in the Arabian Sea to the green grass and dusty roads of 1930s suburban New York, Ballard and director of photography Caleb Deschanel (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) create a film of consistent visual invention and purity.
The Black Stallion also features a winning supporting performance by Mickey Rooney (It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) as a retired jockey and a gorgeous score by Carmine Coppola (The Godfather Part II).
Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of the G-rated film include the following:
- New 4K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Caleb Deschanel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Five short films by Carroll Ballard, with introductions by the director: Pigs!(1965), The Perils of Priscilla(1969), Rodeo (1969), Seems Like Only Yesterday (1971), and Crystallization (1974)
• New conversation between Ballard and film critic Scott Foundas
• New interview with Deschanel
• New piece featuring photographer Mary Ellen Mark discussing her images from the film’s set
• Trailer
• An essay by film critic Michael Sragow
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