Lone Star - The Criterion Collection (Blu‑ray)

A keen observer of America’s social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neowestern mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper), son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles’s masterful film—novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson—quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border.

• United States
• 135 minutes
• Color
• 2.39:1
• English, Spanish
• Spine #1202
• 1996

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Sayles and director of photography Stuart Dryburgh, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New conversation between Sayles and filmmaker Gregory Nava
- New interview with Dryburgh
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar Domino Renee Perez

* New cover by Jacob Phillips