Nicolas Roeg

Don’t Look Now

Don’t Look Now

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerize as a British married couple on an extended trip to Venice following a family tragedy. While in that elegantly decaying city, they have a series of inexplicable, terrifying, and increasingly dangerous experiences. A masterpiece from Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, adapted from a story by Daphne du Maurier, is a brilliantly disturbing tale of the supernatural, as renowned for its innovative editing and haunting cinematography as for its naturalistic eroticism and its unforgettable climax and denouement—one of the great endings in horror history.

Film Info

  • United Kingdom, Italy
  • 1973
  • 110 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #745

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Anthony Richmond, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Conversation between editor Graeme Clifford and film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen
  • “Don't Look Now”: Looking Back, a short documentary from 2002 featuring Clifford, Richmond, and director Nicolas Roeg
  • “Don't Look Now”: Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
  • Program on the writing and making of the film, featuring interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and coscreenwriter Allan Scott
  • Program on Roeg’s style, featuring interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
  • Q&A with Roeg from 2003 at London’s Ciné Lumière
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thompson

    Cover by Fred Davis

Purchase Options

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Anthony Richmond, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • Conversation between editor Graeme Clifford and film writer and historian Bobbie O’Steen
  • “Don't Look Now”: Looking Back, a short documentary from 2002 featuring Clifford, Richmond, and director Nicolas Roeg
  • “Don't Look Now”: Death in Venice, a 2006 interview with composer Pino Donaggio
  • Program on the writing and making of the film, featuring interviews with Richmond, actors Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, and coscreenwriter Allan Scott
  • Program on Roeg’s style, featuring interviews with filmmakers Danny Boyle and Steven Soderbergh
  • Q&A with Roeg from 2003 at London’s Ciné Lumière
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thompson

    Cover by Fred Davis
Don’t Look Now
Cast
Julie Christie
Laura Baxter
Donald Sutherland
John Baxter
Hilary Mason
Heather
Clelia Matania
Wendy
Massimo Serato
Bishop Barbarrigo
Renato Scarpa
Inspector Longhi
Giorgio Trestini
Workman
Leopoldo Trieste
Hotel manager
David Tree
Anthony Babbage
Ann Rye
Mandy Babbage
Nicholas Salter
Johnny Baxter
Sharon Williams
Christine Baxter
Bruno Cattaneo
Detective Sabbioni
Adelina Poerio
Dwarf
Credits
Director
Nicolas Roeg
Produced by
Peter Katz
Screenplay by
Allan Scott
Screenplay by
Chris Bryant
From a story by
Daphne du Maurier
Executive producer
Anthony B. Unger
Associate producer
Federico Mueller
Director of photography
Anthony Richmond
Art director
Giovanni Soccol
Set dresser
Francesco Chianese
Film editor
Graeme Clifford
Sound editor
Rodney Holland
Assistant editor
Tony Lawson
Assistant editor
Peter Holt
Music by
Pino Donaggio
Arranged and conducted by
Giampiero Boneschi

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Editing Don’t Look Now
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Don’t Look Now: Seeing Red

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Mark Jenkin’s Top 10

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