Focus Features 10-Movie Spotlight Collection [Blu-ray]

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Since its founding in 2002, Focus Features has been synonymous with innovative and critically acclaimed filmmaking. The iconic studio presents their renowned films that illuminate some of Hollywood's greatest writers, directors and actors in the Focus Features:10-Movie Spotlight Collection! Totaling an impressive 7 Academy Award® and 11 Golden Globe® wins, the film set includes Lost in Translation (Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet), Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen), Brokeback Mountain (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal), Atonement (Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, and Saoirse Ronan), Burn After Reading (Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, and George Clooney), Moonrise Kingdom (Bruce Willis and Edward Norton), The Theory of Everything (Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones), On the Basis of Sex (Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer) and Harriet (Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr.).Bonus Content:Disc 1 - Lost in Translation:Digital Copy of Lost in Translation (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)Deleted ScenesA Conversation with Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola"Lost" On LocationMatthew's Best Hit TVOn The Set of Sofia Coppola's SomewhereKevin Shield's "City Girl" Music VideoTheatrical TrailerDisc 2 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:Digital Copy of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)Deleted ScenesExtended ScenesA Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MindA Conversation with Jim Carrey and Michel GondryInside The Mind Of Michel GondryAnatomy Of A Scene: Saratoga AvenueA Conversation With Kate Winslet And Director Michel GondryThe Polyphonic Spree "Light & Day" Music VideoLacuna InfomercialEaster EggFeature Commentary With Michel Gondry And Writer Charlie KaufmanDisc 3 - Pride & Prejudice:Digital Copy of Pride & Prejudice (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)Feature Commentary With Director Joe WrightConversations With The CastJane Austen: Ahead Of Her TimeA Bennet Family PortraitHBO First Look: Pride & PrejudiceThe Politics Of 18th Century DatingThe Stately Homes Of Pride & PrejudiceDisc 4 - Brokeback Mountain:Digital Copy of Brokeback Mountain (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)A Groundbreaking SuccessMusic From the MountainImpressions From the FilmOn Being a CowboyDirecting from the Heart: Ang LeeFrom Script to Screen: Interviews with Larry McMurtry and Diana OssanaSharing the Story: The Making of Brokeback MountainDisc 5 - Atonement:Digital Copy of Atonement (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)Deleted Scenes with Commentary By Director Joe WrightFeature Commentary With Director Joe WrightBringing The Past to Life: The Making Of AtonementFrom Novel to Screen: Adapting A ClassicDisc 6 - Burn After Reading:Digital Copy of Burn After Reading (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)Finding the BurnDC Insiders Run AmuckWelcome Back GeorgeDisc 7 - Moonrise Kingdom:Includes a digital copy of Moonrise Kingdom (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)A Look Inside Moonrise KingdomWelcome to the Island of New PenzanceSet Tour with Bill MurrayDisc 8 - The Theory of Everything:Includes a digital copy of The Theory of Everything (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.) Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director James MarshBecoming the HawkingsFeature Commentary with Director James MarshDisc 9 - On the Basis of Sex:Includes a digital copy of On the Basis of Sex (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)A Supreme Team: Making On the Basis of SexLegacy of JusticeMartin and Ruth: A Loving PartnershipDisc 10 - Harriet:Includes a digital copy of Harriet (Subject to expiration. Go to NBCUCodes.com for details.)Deleted Scenes Her StoryBecoming HarrietFeature Commentary with Director/Co-writer Kasi Lemmons]]> Review: Strong selection of movies if you don't have them already - This is a quick way to beef up your collection of quality movies. Most of these earned major Oscar nominations and have very high critical ratings. Plus you also get a code that gives you digital copies of all ten movies. My discs and case arrived undamaged, but the slip of paper with the code for digital copies was for Universal's Blumhouse of Horrors 10-pack. I submitted a ticket to Universal on their redemption site and they sent me a new code which redeemed for these Focus movies (and I got to keep the horror movies in my digital collection). The problem with a set like this is if you already own some of them. I had two of them already, but one of those didn't include a digital copy, so for me it worked out. Review: Good price on a variety of great films - These superb films from Focus Features, most of them award-winning and all of them critically acclaimed, are presented as a 10-Blu-ray box set with oodles of supplemental materials, including deleted and extended scenes, many making-of featurettes and background documentaries, commentary and interviews with writers and directors and their casts and crews, as well as a code that allows one to stream all of the movies online. If you appreciate artistic excellence and collect contemporary cinema, this is a compact and economical way to do it. Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" (2004) is a fish-out-of-water story set in Tokyo, where a wry Bill Murray and a young Scarlett Johansson establish a unique and endearing relationship. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2005), a wonderfully strange Charlie Kaufman/Michel Gondry collaboration, features a remarkable cast lead by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as former lovers who can't forget one another no matter how hard they try. In Joe Wright's "Pride & Prejudice" (2005), Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen embody Jane Austen's classic romance, and in Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" (2006), Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play cowboys in a forbidden relationship (though I personally can't imagine cheating on either Michelle Williams or Anne Hathaway). Another Wright film, "Atonement" (2007), stars Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan, and Vanessa Redgrave in a wartime tale of tragic misunderstandings and regrets. It couldn't be more different from the Coen Brothers' "Burn After Reading" (2008), with Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, and others; this hilarious black comedy concerns a pack of Washington D.C. numbskulls engaged in farcical skullduggery and deadly misadventure. Wes Anderson's quirky and delightfully deadpan fantasy "Moonrise Kingdom" (2012) features another terrific ensemble cast that includes Bruce Willis and Edward Norton along with Murray, McDormand, and Swinton. The remaining films are inspirational biopics about important figures from history, two of whom died recently: in James Marsh's "The Theory of Everything" (2014), Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones play theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife; in Mimi Leder's "On the Basis of Sex" (2018), Jones and Armie Hammer play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and her husband; and in "Harriet" (2019), Cynthia Erivo powerfully portrays abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Some folks find biographical films to be deadly dull, and I admit that many of them are, but these three are compelling and moving exceptions to the rule. The Spotlight Collection is a reasonably priced treasury -- currently costing less than $5 per disc -- that conveniently assembles some of the most memorable and prestigious motion pictures of the past two decades. These four comedies and six dramas reward repeated viewing, so if you don’t already have them on Blu-ray, I highly recommend the set.