One of the less celebrated films of Luis Bunuel valedictory run of art-house hits from the Sixties and Seventies, La Voie Lactee (aka The Milky Way) has been one of the hardest titles from this period of Bunuel's career to see, but the Criterion Collection have come to the rescue with this fine DVD release of the movie. The Milky Way has been transferred to disc in its original European widescreen aspect ratio of 1.66:1, which is letterboxed on conventional televisions and enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16x9 monitors. The image is sharp and clean throughout, and Christian Matras's camerawork looks splendid on disc. The audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Mono, preserving the original mix, and the film sounds fine, if not unusually strong. The dialogue is in French, with optional English subtitles but no multiple language options. This DVD has been augmented with plenty of relevant bonus features, including a short interview with co-screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, an appreciation of the film by critic Ian Christie (who also discusses the theological and historical basis behind many of the sequences), the film's original European trailer, and a short documentary on Bunuel and The Milky Way, Luis Bunuel: Atheist Thanks To God. The accompanying booklet also includes short essays on the picture from Carlos Fuentes and Mark Polizzotti and excerpts from an interview from the mid-Seventies in which Bunuel talks about The Milky Way and his fascination with heretics. Criterion's release of The Milky Way proves once again that they're the leaders in definitive editions of classic European cinema, and Bunuel fans will love this set.