Due to the size of each gallery, the films have been split into separate posts. Please click the links below for the galleries.
The Day of the Owl Gallery
The Case is Closed: Forget It Gallery
Due to problems with the disc, we were unable to get screenshots for this release. However, the box artwork is included for completion.
How to Kill a Judge Gallery
Extra Features
DISC ONE: The Day of the Owl
- NEW 2K restoration of The Day of the Owl from the original negative presented in the original Italian version (109 mins) and the shorter export cut with English audio (103 mins)
- Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
- NEW interview with star Franco Nero, featuring archive footage of Damiano Damiani and Leonardo Sciascia discussing The Day of the Owl (1080p; 17:21)
- Archival interview with Franco Nero, writer Ugo Pirro and production manager Lucio Trentini discussing the making of The Day of the Owl (1080p; 26:34)
- NEW Identity Crime-Sis: filmmaker and Italian crime cinema expert Mike Malloy discusses The Day of the Owl in the context of the formation of the Italian crime film genre (1080p; 20:04)
- NEW Casting Cobb: A Tale of Two Continents: A video essay by filmmaker Howard S. Berger looking at actor Lee J. Cobb’s career transition from Hollywood to Italy and the archetypes he tended to play (1080p;
- Archival interview with Claudia Cardinale from Belgian TV in which she discusses her long and storied career (1080p; 22:20)
- NEW improved optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio for each film
- Original trailer (1080p; 2:50)
DISC TWO: The Case is Closed: Forget It
- 2K restoration of The Case is Closed: Forget It from the original negative presented with Italian and, for the first time, English audio options
- Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
- NEW interview with star Franco Nero discussing The Case is Closed: Forget It (1080p; 14:00)
- Archival documentary on the making of The Case is Closed: Forget It featuring actor Corrado Solari, assistant director Enrique Bergier and editor Antonio Siciliano (1080p; 28:00)
- NEW Italy’s Cinematic Civil Conscience: An Examination of the Life and Works of Damiano Damiani: A visual essay on the career of Damiani Damiani by critic Rachael Nisbet (1080p; 35:00)
- Trailer (1080p)
DISC THREE: How to Kill a Judge
- NEW 2K restoration of How to Kill a Judge from the original negative presented in Italian and English audio options
- Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
- NEW interview with star Franco Nero discussing How to Kill a Judge (1080p; 12:59)
- NEW interview with Alberto Pezzotta, author of Regia Damiano Damiani, who discusses Damiani’s contribution to the mafia and crime genres and the reception of his films in Italy (1080p; 34:23)
- NEW Lessons in Violence: A new video essay on How to Kill a Judge by filmmaker David Cairns (1080p; 21:38)
- NEW improved optional English subtitles for Italian audio and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for English audio
- English trailer (1080p; 3:42)
- Italian trailer (1080p; 3:42)
- NEW Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters for each film
- NEW Limited edition 120-page book featuring new and archival writing on the films by experts on the genre including Andrew Nette on Leonardo Sciascia’s The Day of the Owl; Piero Garofalo on The Case is Closed: Forget It; Paul A. J. Lewis on depictions of the mafia in each of the films within this set; Shelley O’Brien on each of the scores; a newly translated archival interview with Damiani; Nathaniel Thompson on Franco Nero; Marco Natoli on Damiani’s place within the cinema politico movement in Italian cinema; a critical overview for each the films by Cullen Gallagher and credits for each film
- NEW Slipbox
Packaging Details
