| Notes | A landmark collaboration between writer H. G. Wells, producer Alexander Korda, and designer and director William Cameron Menzies, "Things to Come" is a science fiction film like no other, a prescient political work that predicts a century of turmoil and progress. Skipping through time, "Things to Come" bears witness to world war, disease, dictatorship, and, finally, utopia. Conceived, written, and overseen by Wells himself as an adaptation of his own work, this megabudget production, the most ambitious ever from Korda’s London Films, is a triumph of imagination and technical audacity.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital film transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary featuring film historian and writer David Kalat
New interview with writer and cultural historian Christopher Frayling on the film’s design
New visual essay by film historian Bruce Eder on Arthur Bliss’s musical score
Unused special effects footage by artist László Moholy-Nagy, along with a video installation piece by Jan Tichy incorporating that footage
Audio recording from 1936 of a reading from H. G. Wells’s writing about the Wandering Sickness, the plague in Things to Come
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
New cover by Laurent Durieux |
