{"id":2368,"date":"2011-02-03T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2011-02-06T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T20:33:05","slug":"the-valley-coming-to-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/02\/the-valley-coming-to-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Valley&#8221; coming to Blu-Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barbet Schroeder<\/strong>&#8216;s 1972 film &#8220;La Vall\u00e9e&#8221; (&#8220;The Valley&#8221;) is coming to Blu-Ray in a new dual-format release.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\">British Film Institute<\/a> <\/strong>(BFI) will release the 2-disc set Feb. 14. It&#8217;ll be the first time the film is available on Blu-Ray disc, a region-fee format playable in any country; and the first time the DVD is available for Region 0, which is compatible with players in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pink Floyd <\/strong>fans know the film&#8217;s soundtrack as the band&#8217;s 1972 album &#8220;Obscured by Clouds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new release contains additional content, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Original and digitally-restored optional endings (Blu-ray only)<\/li>\n<li>Original un-restored ending (5:00, DVD only)<\/li>\n<li>Three ethnographic documentary shorts directed by Schroeder: &#8220;Le cochon aux patates douces&#8221; (1971, 8:00) about the Mapuga tribe&#8217;s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes; &#8220;Maquillages&#8221; (1971, 12:00), which examines the types of ceremonial make-up worn by the Mapuga tribe; &#8220;Sing Sing&#8221; (1971, 5:00) on the ceremony of &#8220;Sing Sing&#8221; practiced by Papua New Guinea&#8217;s tribes<\/li>\n<li>Theatrical trailers for Schroeder&#8217;s &#8220;The Valley&#8221;; &#8220;More&#8221; (1969), which also features music by Floyd; and &#8220;Ma\u00eetresse&#8221; (1974)<\/li>\n<li>An illustrated 26-page booklet with rare on-set photographs; an essay, &#8220;Childhood\u2019s End: Pink Floyd&#8217;s Music for The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)&#8221; by Rob Young; and an essay and new director interview by Emilie Bickerton, author of the recently-published book &#8220;A Short History of Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Price for the 2-disc set is \u00a319.99. <a href=\"http:\/\/filmstore.bfi.org.uk\/acatalog\/info_18760.html\">Purchase it directly from BFI<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Valley-DVD-Blu-ray-Barbet-Schroeder\/dp\/B004CZ6I32\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1296736571&amp;sr=8-1\">buy it at Amazon UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbet Schroeder&#8216;s 1972 film &#8220;La Vall\u00e9e&#8221; (&#8220;The Valley&#8221;) is coming to Blu-Ray in a new dual-format release. The British Film Institute (BFI) will release the 2-disc set Feb. 14. It&#8217;ll be the first time the film is available on Blu-Ray disc, a region-fee format playable in any country; and the first time the DVD is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-merchandise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}