Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has announced a new 4K restoration (from
the original camera negative) of auteur
director John Frankenheimer’s 1998 thriller, Ronin, starring Robert De
Niro and Jean Reno. Ronin
will be presented as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offering on Aug. 15.
The Russian mob, a femme-fatale (Natascha McElhone), a
mysterious briefcase, the CIA and more double-crosses than a tic-tac-toe game are
just some of the things involved in this action thriller that was filmed on
location throughout France (notably, Paris and Nice).
Bonus features for Ronin — the 4K restoration was
supervised by Robert Fraisse the director of photography — include a vintage
commentary track from filmmaker John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate, Seven
Days in May, Seconds, etc.) and a newly-prepared video session with
Robert Fraisse (Oscar-nominated in 1993 for his work on director Jean-Jacques
Annaud’s The Lover … plus cinematography/director of photography on such
films as Enemy at the Gates, Hotel Rwanda and The
Notebook).
There are also six vintage featurettes — “Ronin:
Filming in the Fast Lane,” “Through the Lens,” “The Driving of Ronin,”
“Natascha McElhone: An Actor’s Process,” “Composing the Ronin Score” and “In
the Ronin Cutting Room” — an alternate ending, the Venice Film Festival
interviews with Robert De Niro, Jean Reno and Natascha McElhone and documentary
filmmaker Paul Joyce’s 1994 film, Tarantino on De Niro.
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