Cloud Atlas (2012) Open Matte 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC EAC3-SARTRE

Directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski team up to helm this adaptation of David Mitchell's popular novel Cloud Atlas. The trio have put together an all-star cast, including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant, to play various characters over the course of several different historical time periods. The various narrative threads weave in and out of each other, painting a portrait of mankind's quest for tolerance and peace throughout the ages.

Extras


• The Making Of Cloud Atlas - Seven combined featurettes providing an overview of the film and production.

- A Film Like No Other (HD, 7 minutes): More of an extended promo, this talking heads EPK features key members of the cast and crew waxing poetic about the project, its significance, the logistic challenges faced, and its uniqueness among science fiction films.

- The Bold Science Fiction of Cloud Atlas (HD, 7 minutes): More talking heads and clips, this time focusing on the most distinctly "sci-fi" of the storylines and the evolution of language and culture as presented in the film.

- Eternal Recurrence: Love, Life and Longing in Cloud Atlas (HD, 8 minutes): Romance and fate over the ages, as interpreted by the cast and crew through the various stories.

- Everything is Connected (HD, 8 minutes): A look at the interlocking existences of the various characters and the manner in which the staggeringly different yet striking similar storylines overlap and impact one another.

- Spaceships, Slaves & Sextets (HD, 8 minutes): Six stories at once; a bold, unmistakably daunting approach to storytelling that posed an endless array of opportunities and pitfalls. The filmmakers and actors discuss the production's fractured plot.

- The Essence of Acting (HD, 7 minutes): The actors discuss their roles and the choices they made to both distinguish the new incarnation of each character while recalling elements and personality traits of the old.

- The Impossible Adaptation (HD, 9 minutes): "Impossible" is becoming less and less impressive as more and more "unfilmable" books are transformed into fully functional movies. Nevertheless, the difficulty of adapting author David Mitchell's novel is covered in short order.