The Man who wasn't there Blu-ray

The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. Fusing the expressionistic black and white and hard-boiled poetry of classic noir with their own idiosyncratic feeling for sinister, surreal Americana, Joel and Ethan Coen craft an arresting vision of the cruelty of fate and the mystery of our place in the cosmos.
 
Film Info
 
United States, United Kingdom 
2001
116 minutes
Black & White
1.85:1
English 
Spine #1301
 
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
 
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott
Archival interview with Deakins
Short making-of documentary and deleted scenes
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by author Laura Lippman