Keoma Blu-ray

Arrow Video's forthcoming Blu-ray restoration of Enzo G. Castellari's Keoma (1976) includes an "extras" feature in which I examine the "twilight era" of the Spaghetti Western, as this long-lived filone began to draw to a close.

Special Edition Contents:

• New 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative

• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation

• Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio

• Original English and Italian soundtracks, titles and credits

• Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack

• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack

• New audio commentary by spaghetti western experts C. Courtney Joyner and Henry C. Parke

• The Ballad of Keoma, a new interview with the legendary star Franco Nero

• Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, a new interview with director Enzo G. Castellari

• Writing Keoma, a new interview with actor and writer Luigi Montefiori AKA George Eastman

• Parallel Actions, a new interview with editor Gianfranco Amicucci

• The Flying Thug, a new interview with actor Massimo Vanni

• Play as an Actor, a new interview with actor Volfango Soldati

• Keoma and the Twilight of the Spaghetti Western, a newly filmed video appreciation by the academic Austin Fisher

• An Introduction to Keoma by Alex Cox, an archival featurette with the acclaimed director

• Original Italian and international theatrical trailers

• Gallery of original promotional images from the Mike Siegel Archive

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sean Phillips

• Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Simon Abrams and Howard Hughes”