Special Features
New 2K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks; Conversation between Director Eric Rohmer and filmmaker Barbet Schroeder from 2006; Four short films by Rohmer-Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (shot in 1951 and completed in 1961); Véronique and Her Dunce (1958); Nadja in Paris (1964); A Modern Coed (1966)-and one on which he advised, The Curve (1999); "On Pascal," a 1965 episode of the educational TV series En profil dans le texte directed by Rohmer, on the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, the subject of debate in My Night at Maud's ; Archival interviews with Rohmer; actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan, and Jean-Louis Trintignant; film critic Jean Douchet; and Producer Pierre Cottrell; Video afterward from 2006 by filmmaker and playwright Neil LaBute; Trailers; Plus: A booklet featuring essays by critics Geoff Andrew, Ginette Vincendeau, Phillip Lopate, Kent Jones, Molly Haskell, and Armond White; excerpts from Cinematographer Nestor Alemendros's 1984 autobiography; and Rohmer's landmark 1948 essay "For a Talking Cinema"; along with an English translation of Moral Tales, the book of stories by Rohmer on which the films are based