The Criterion Collection Targets (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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. 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-Makers