Real Life (Blu-ray)

Decades before reality television reigned supreme, there was Albert Brookss debut feature, Real Life, a brilliantly deadpan, stylistically innovative satire about the perils and pitfalls of trying to capture the truth on film. The writer-director plays Albert Brooks, a narcissistic Hollywood filmmaker who plans to spend the year in Phoenix embedded with Warren and Jeanette Yeager (Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain) and their two children, deploying an arsenal of cutting-edge equipment (including the over-the-head Ettinaur 226XL camera) to capture an American familys ordinary day-to-day. Chronicling the projects disastrous fallout, as the meddlesome Albert cant help getting too close to his subjects, this pioneering mockumentary is more relevant than ever amid todays media landscape. DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Albert Brooks, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with Brooks New int