Chilly Scenes of Winter (Blu-ray)

The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silverone of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970sdigs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this antiromantic comedy, based on Ann Beatties best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles (John Heard) and his married-but-separated coworker Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps never was. Switching deftly between past and present, Micklin Silver guides this piercing deconstruction of male wish-fulfillment fantasy beyond standard movie-romance tropes into something more complicated and cuttingly truthful.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New program featuring producers Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson Documentary from 1983 by Katja Raganelli about director Joan Micklin Silver Excerpts of a 2005 intervie