With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda arrived full-fledged as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels – a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing person investigation when detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) turns up at her door – Fonda made the film her own, putting an independent woman and escort on-screen with a frankness that had not yet been attempted in Hollywood. Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula (All the President’s Men), and lensed by master cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather), Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
– New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by camera operator Michael Chapman, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
– New conversation between actors Jane Fonda and Illeana Douglas
– New documentary about Klute and director Alan J. Pakula by filmmaker Matthew Miele, featuring scholars, filmmakers, and Pakula’s family and friends
– The Look of Klute, a new interview with writer Amy Fine Collins
– Archival interviews with Pakula and Fonda
– “Klute” in New York, a short documentary made during the shooting of the film
– PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Harris and excerpts from a 1972 interview with Pakula
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