4K UHD + Blu-Ray

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (4K-UHD)

Criterion

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A rare film biography as boldly unconventional as its subject, writer-director François Girard’s visionary portrait of iconoclastic, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould explodes the conventions of...

A rare film biography as boldly unconventional as its subject, writer-director François Girard’s visionary portrait of iconoclastic, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould explodes the conventions of the form to illuminate the brilliant mind and innermost obsessions of a singular artist. Across thirty-two vignettes encompassing everything from dramatic sketches to documentary interviews to avant-garde animation, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould pieces together the story of Gould’s trajectory from child prodigy to celebrated concert pianist who turned his back on public performance to pursue his all-consuming fascination with recording technology. Led by a tour-de-force performance by Colm Feore and underscored by Gould’s landmark recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Girard’s film daringly deconstructs the enigma of genius.

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My mother tells me that by five years old I had decided definitively to become a concert pianist. I think she had decided some time earlier.

- Glenn Gould

Release Specs

Format
4K UHD + Blu-Ray
Genre
Biography, Drama
Sub-Genre
Music
No. of Discs
2
Region
Region Free 4k | Region A Blu-Ray
Special Features
  • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director François Girard, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
  • New audio commentary featuring Girard and cowriter and actor Don McKellar
  • New conversation between Girard and filmmaker Atom Egoyan
  • Glenn Gould: Off the Record and Glenn Gould: On the Record, companion programs from 1959 produced for Canadian television
  • Archival interviews with actor Colm Feore and producer Niv Fichman
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky
  • Cover design and sculptures by Pascal Dufaux