Casablanca

(Note: This review refers to the Blu-ray version of the DVD.)

"You must remember this / a kiss is still a kiss / a sigh is just a sigh." "Play it, Sam." "We'll always have Paris." "Here's looking at you, kid." Is there a more memorable, more quintessential, more perfect Hollywood film? Humphrey Bogart proves that looks aren't everything as the cinema's most romantic existential hero, and Ingrid Bergman is a vision of soft-focus loveliness as the emotionally wounded heroine. And they're just the tip of this iceberg of Hollywood's most supreme achievement in character casting: Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Dooley Wilson, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre are among the iconic faces in the exotic crowd. "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." The winner of three Oscars in 1943, including Best Picture, it placed second in the AFI's poll to find the Best American Film of all time more than 50 years later, and it is still one of the most beloved and popular Hollywood classics of all time. Now it has been remastered for high definition, and the clarity is breathtakingly sharp and textured and incredibly vivid.

New to this set is the 1993 documentary "Jack Warner: The Last Mogul," a fairly generic biography, but it also includes all the supplements from its previous special edition release, including separate commentary tracks by movie critic Roger Ebert (he brings a conversational quality to his appreciation) and film historian Rudy Behlmer (who aims his talk at the fan rather than the classroom), short deleted scenes with no audio (subtitles provided), five minutes of outtakes (see Bogie break character with an inspired expression), the premier episode of the 1955 "Casablanca" TV series, the audio-only "Screen Guild Players Radio Production" of the film starring Bogie, Bergman and Henreid, the 1995 Looney Tunes cartoon homage "Carrotblanca," plus more documentaries and featurettes and archival goodies.