New Arrival The Game (#627)

The enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his neer-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down the rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewers alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one mans personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenonSe7en,further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywoods true contemporary visionaries.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Harris Savides, with original theatrical 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
• Alternate 5.1 surround mix optimized for home theater viewing, supervised by sound designer Ren Klyce and presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
• Audio commentary by director David Fincher, Savides, actor Michael Douglas, screenwriters John Brancato and Michael Ferris, digital animation supervisor Richard Dr. Baily, production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, and visual effects supervisor Kevin Haug
• An hours worth of exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and film-to-storyboard comparisons for four of the films major set pieces, with commentary
• Alternate ending
• Trailer and teaser, with commentary
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: A new essay by film critic David Sterritt