Black Orpheus (1959) Blu-ray

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, MARCEL CAMUS’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

Special Features

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
• Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
• New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
• Looking for “Black Orpheus,” a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
• Theatrical trailer
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson