| Notes | Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room in this compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson’s play, from director Nicolas Roeg. With a combination of whimsy and dread, Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror image of fifties America in order to reflect on the nature of celebrity and lingering cold-war nuclear nightmares. Insignificance is a delirious, intelligent drama, featuring magnetic performances by Michael Emil as the Professor, Theresa Russell as the Actress, Gary Busey as the Ballplayer, and Tony Curtis as the Senator.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION
Newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Nicolas Roeg and producer Jeremy Thomas, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New video interviews with Roeg, Thomas, and editor Tony Lawson
Making “Insignificance,” a short documentary shot on the set of the film
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens and a reprinted exchange between Roeg and screenwriter Terry Johnson
New cover by Fred Davis |
