Press Release Criterion Press Release: Targets (1968) (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. Produced by Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly) on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence, Targets is a model of maximally effective filmmaking on a minimal budget and a potent first statement from one of the defining voices of the American New Wave.

FILM INFO​

• United States
• 1968
• 90 minutes
• Color
• 1.85:1
• English
• Spine #1179
  
  

  BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES​

  • New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich
  • New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater
  • Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich
  • Excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin’s 1969 book The Director’s Event: Interviews with Five American Film-Maker
    
    New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[borisfw]

Finally Targets.

 

[classicscaper]

Very excited for this one after the BFI release was unexpectedly cancelled last year.

 

[Kent K H]

I love Karloff, but I've never seen this. Feel like I could go either way on it.

 

[brynmill]

Very excited for this one after the BFI release was unexpectedly cancelled last year.

The BFI was just removed from their schedule owing to issues with Paramount. It should be back on track now as this edition is happening. I can't say I like the Criterion cover above

 

[RBailey]

I'm buying this ... but wouldn't it have been cool if a copy of THE TERROR had been included as a special feature?

 

[ahollis]

I'm buying this ... but wouldn't it have been cool if a copy of THE TERROR had been included as a special feature?

That would be great, but two different production companies.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Great film, one hell of a debut from Bogdanovich.

 

[RBailey]

That would be great, but two different production companies.

But isn't THE TERROR a PD title?

 

[ahollis]

But isn't THE TERROR a PD title?

If so, why would you want an inferior scan of it, MGM should still have the negative and good prints.

 

[RBailey]

If so, why would you want an inferior scan of it, MGM should still have the negative and good prints.

That's true. But a pretty good Blu-ray was released by The Film Detective a few years ago according to this review from DVD Beaver. It would be a nice extra to be included in the same package with TARGETS.

The Terror Blu-ray - Jack Nicholson