Lone Star | 4K UHD+Blu-ray

Few prominent Hollywood directors have ever had as firm a handle on socially conscious cinema as John Sayles. Stretching back from his earliest feature projects, Sayles has tackled subjects as diverse as workers rights, racial integration, LGBTQ relationships, corruption, and more.

While his eye for meaningful narratives didn’t exactly vanish over the last two decades, Sayles found the peak of his cinematic form in the 1996 neo-western noir epic Lone Star. A sprawling tale of segregation, corruption, and politics along the Texas/Mexico border, Sayles weaves a complex narrative of murder, love, and mystery.

An ever-present muse, Chris Cooper delivers one of the most powerful performances of his career, supported by Elizabeth Pena, and Kris Kristofferson (with supporting roles for Matthew McConaughey and Frances McDormand among others). A powerful film with an intense focus on the complex machinations of American history.

Special Features (via criterion.com)

• 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