After Hours (Blu-Ray)

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home.

With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
– New 4K digital restoration, approved by editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
– New conversation between director Martin Scorsese and writer Fran Lebowitz
– Audio commentary featuring Scorsese, Schoonmaker, director of photography Michael Ballhaus, actor and producer Griffin Dunne, and producer Amy Robinson
– Documentary about the making of the film featuring Dunne, Robinson, Schoonmaker, and Scorsese
– New program on the look of the film featuring costume designer Rita Ryack & production designer Jeffrey Townsend
– Deleted scenes
– Trailer
– English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
– PLUS: An essay by critic Sheila O’Malley
– New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde