HEAT AND DUST - BLU-RAY

Heat and Dust (+ Autobiography of a Princess) (2-disc Blu-ray)
Directed by James Ivory

When Anne (Julie Christie) inherits the letters of her great-aunt Olivia (Greta Scacchi), she becomes drawn to India by their revelations of a relationship with a handsome and charismatic, if not entirely scrupulous, Indian price (Shashi Kapoor). Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's adaptation from her own Booker Prize-winning novel moves effortlessly between past and present in a sensual and evocative journey, telling the story of both women's paths to self-discovery more than a century apart.

Now beautifully restored in 4K and available on Blu-ray for the first time, the BAFTA-winning Heat and Dust is accompanied on this release by Autobiography of a Princess, Merchant Ivory's fictional study of Imperial India starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey.

Special Features:

• New 4K restoration
• Autobiography of a Princess (1975, 58 mins): Merchant Ivory's fictional study of royal India starring James Mason and Madhur Jaffrey
• Merchant Ivory's Royal India (2017, 33 mins): James Ivory in conversation with writer/director Chris Terrio
• Greta Scacchi and Nickolas Grace Remember Heat and Dust (2017, 42 mins): an interview by Claire Monk
• Q&A with Madhur Jaffrey (2017, 22 mins)
• Trailers
• Three archive shorts depicting some of the princely states of India (1922-1940, 56 mins)
• The Guardian Interview: Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992, 100 mins, audio only): John Pym moderates a panel discussion at the NFT

UK | 1983, 1975 | colour | 130 minutes, 58 minute | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.66:1 | Cert 15 (Moderate sex references, nudity, discrimination, sexual threat, violence) | Disc 1: BD50, 1080p, 24fps, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (48kHz/24-bit), PCM 2.0 stereo audio | Disc 2: BD50: 1080p, 24fps, PCM 1.0 mono audio (48kHz/24-bit) | region B