Paramount annonce pour le 27 octobre 2015, le film My Fair Lady 50th Anniversary Edition en édition Blu-ray de George Cukor avec Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jeremy Brett, Gladys Cooper et Stanley Holloway.

Des pistes sonores anglaise et française seront disponibles.

À Londres, au début du siècle dernier, un professeur, spécialiste en linguistique, est attiré par l'accent populaire d'une jeune marchande de fleurs. Il parie avec un ami qu'il pourrait faire une Lady de la jeune fille en lui montrant comment bien s?exprimer et les bonnes manières. Considéré par plusieurs comme la plus grande comédie musicale de tous les temps, MY FAIR LADY, adapté de Pygmalion, une pièce de Bernard Shaw, a d?abord triomphé plusieurs années sur les planches de Broadway. Couronnée par 8 Oscars, dont ceux du meilleur film et du meilleur réalisateur, son adaptation cinématographique se révèle encore aujourd?hui un chef-d??uvre du genre. Roses, ?illets, chrysanthèmes blancs et camélias apparaissent dès le générique et donnent le ton à un pur divertissement, délicieusement suranné.

Voici le communiqué (en anglais) :

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (September 22, 2015) – Experience one of the greatest movie musicals in cinematic history like never before as the eight-time Oscar^® winning film arrives in a newly restored, high-definition collection, MY FAIR LADY: 50^th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The release arrives just in time for the holidays on October 27 as a Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack, and features a brand new 4k restoration from an 8K scan of the original negative, and other surviving 65mm elements, painstakingly restored by acclaimed film historian and preservationist Robert A. Harris.

Adapted from the original Broadway hit and headlined by Hollywood legends 
Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, MY FAIR LADY: 50^th ANNIVERSARY EDITION arrives in collectible packaging with an entire Blu-ray disc dedicated to 90 minutes of special features including a variety of original trailers and featurettes that were used in theaters to promote the feature film, as well as footage from the film’s Los Angeles and British premieres in 1964.

“MY FAIR LADY is one of the crown jewels in our library,” said Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS Home Entertainment. “And now this timeless masterpiece will be presented to a new generation of fans in a quality never before seen or heard.”

Directed by George Cukor, MY FAIR LADY won a staggering eight* Academy Awards including Best Picture. Fifty years after its original release, audiences are still enchanted by the musical that follows elitist linguistic professor Henry Higgins (Harrison) as he makes a wager with his colleague that he can turn a sassy, cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Hepburn) into the toast of English society. Including timeless songs such as “The Rain In Spain,” “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “Get Me To The Church On Time,” MY FAIR LADY remains one of the most celebrated movie musicals in film history.

MY FAIR LADY: 50^th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack comes in collectible packaging with an entire Blu-ray disc dedicated to 90 minutes of special features including a variety of original trailers and featurettes that were used in theaters to promote the feature film, as well as footage from the film’s Los Angeles and British premieres in 1964.  The movie Blu-ray will be available in 1080p with English 7.1 96k Dolby TrueHD audio, French, Italian, German, Castilian Spanish and Japanese mono, along with English SDH, French, Italian, German, Castilian Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish subtitles. The special features on the Blu-ray will be available in various high definition or standard definition formats, English Stereo or Mono audio, and English SDH, French, Italian, German, Castilian Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish subtitles. The movie DVD will be available in standard definition, with English 5.1 Stereo Audio and English SDH. The collection is rated G and will be available for the suggested retail price of $42.99. The Blu-ray special features disc breakdown is as follows:

• More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of My Fair Lady Then & Now
• 1963 Production Kick-Off Dinner
• Los Angeles Premiere 10/28/1964
• British Premiere
• George Cukor Directs Baroness Bina Rothschild
• Rex Harrison Radio Interview
• Production Tests

-       Lighting

-       Wilfred Hyde White make-up

-       Rain/set

-       Covent Garden lighting test

• Alt. Higgins/Pickering screen test
• Alternate Audrey Hepburn Vocals

-       Show Me

-       Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?

• Galleries

-       Cecil Beaton Sketches

-       Character

-       Costume

-       B&W Stills

-       Color Production Stills

-       Documents and Publicity

• Comments On A Lady

-       Andrew Lloyd Webber

-       Martin Scorsese

• Theatrical Featurettes
• Story of a Lady
• Design For A Lady
• The Fairest Fair Lady
• Trailers
• Teaser Trailer with City Tags
• With Pride Trailer
• Awards Trailer
• Theatrical Reissue: Poster Illustration
• Theatrical Reissue: Poster Illustration Reserved Seats Trailer
• Theatrical Reissue: Poster Illustration Awards
• Theatrical Reissue
• Awards

-       Rex Harrison BFI Honor

-       Rex Harrison Golden Globe® Acceptance Speech

-       Academy Awards ® Ceremony Highlights 4/5/65 

Par Sébastien le 2015-09-30