Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating: 
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Format: 2-Disc Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 1.85:1, Closed Captioned, Color
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Audio Track 2: French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Audio Track 3: Commentary by director-screenwriter Philip Kaufman, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, editor Walter Murch, and costar Lena Olin, Unknown
Emotional History: The Making of The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Theatrical trailer
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
Label: Criterion Collection
DVD Format: Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 1.85:1, Closed Captioned, Color, Sides:1 (SS-RSDL)
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Audio Track 2: Commentary by director Philip Kaufman, co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière, editor Walter Murch, and actor Lena Olin, Dolby Digital 1.0
New, director-approved widescreen transfer
Michel Hafner (21 January 2000):
This DVD version of _Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)_ from Criterion is pretty good looking despite some shortcomings.
The film master used is not the cleanest. There is no shortage of speckles in many scenes. But it's not yet distracting. Image steadiness is pretty good. Contrast rendition is very good with deep blacks and nice shadow detail. Color rendition is convincing as well. Sharpness of this 16:9 enhanced DVD is uneven but mostly good. The noise and grain level is moderate. The weakest aspect is, once more, video artifacts. Digital noise suppression has been applied throughout, it seems, and artifacts are visible most of the time. They are more or less slight and of the usual kind (fine image detail is a bit flickering, textures in motion look unnatural, image sharpness is reduced, texture detail sometimes gets smeared and image parts moved around, creating a jittery look). In addition there are over-enhanced edges in some scenes (for example check out Sabina's hat which has a white outline).
This DVD is pretty good looking, despite the video artifacts, and should please on any kind of display. Art house movies like this often get much worse transfers and we are pretty lucky to have this movie in good quality. The noise suppression problems are a minus, but should not prevent anybody who likes the movie from buying this DVD. The artifacts are not that bad.
Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
Rating:
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Format: Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 1.85:1, Color
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Audio Track 1: English, Dolby Digital 5.1
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