The Dead 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray

The elegiac final film by John Huston finds the legendary director adapting a masterful short story by his favorite author, James Joyce, into a deeply moving meditation on memory, mortality, and the passage of time. Set in early 20th-century Dublin during a snowy holiday gathering, The Dead follows Gretta (Anjelica Huston) and her husband Gabriel (Donal McCann) as they join family and friends for an evening of music, laughter, and reflection. But a long-buried secret, revealed after the festivities, casts the entire night—and Gabriel’s understanding of his marriage—in a profoundly different light. Subtle, graceful, and deeply human, Huston’s swan song is a quiet masterpiece of emotional resonance and literary reverence.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Fred Murphy, with 4.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• New interview with author Colum McCann on the James Joyce short story and its adaptation for the film
• New 2K restoration of John Huston and the Dubliners (1987), a behind-the-scenes documentary by Lilyan Sievernich
• Audio excerpts from actor Anjelica Huston’s 2014 memoir Watch Me
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky and a 1987 piece by screenwriter Tony Huston about the making of the film
• New cover by Leanne Shapton