Region 4 Winners and Losers

     Diary of Chambermaid was first released in the United States in a Region-free format by the Criterion Collection. Extras include a video interview with screenwriter and long-time Buņuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carričre, the original theatrical trailer and a 12-page fold-out booklet, featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and the transcript of a late 1970s interview with director Luis Buņuel. A bare-bones Region 2 release by Warner Bros in the United Kingdom contained no extras and a video transfer slightly cropped at 2:29:1. Optimum Releasing included the film recently in a 8-disc boxset entitled The Luis Buņuel Collection. This release includes the same An Angel in the Marshes documentary as the Region 4 Directors Suite release.

     As the Region free Criterion Collection release of Diary of a Chambermaid is now out-of-print (as of June 30th, 2010), the Region 4 version of the film is thus the best available version of the film currently on DVD.