The disc includes Jerry Goldsmith's isolated score track and audio commentary with
film historians David Del Valle, Lem Dobbs, and Nick Redman.
Blu - ray extras include a pair of audio commentaries by
film historians David Del Valle, Steven Peros, Paul Scrabo, Lee Pfeiffer and Hank Reineke; an interview with Lee; Lee reading excerpts from Doyle's story; and an isolated track of James Bernard's score.
Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by producer Lawrence Turman and film historians Lem Dobbs and Nick Redman; separate audio commentary by
film historians David Del Valle and Steven Peros; theatrical trailers; and an isolated score track.
This edition has commentary by
film historians David Del Valle and Tim Sullivan, who also deliver a reading of a print interview with Robert Quarry, plus stills, a radio tribute to Robert Quarry, isolated score audio track, and booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo.
Features commentary by
film historians David Del Valle and Tim Sullivan, an interview with Uta Levka, and a featurette on director Gordon Hessler, along with the trademark isolated score audio track, and booklet with an essay by Julie Kirgo.
Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by producer Pancho Kohner, casting director John Crowther and
film historian David Del Valle; and an isolated track of Robert O. Ragland's score.
House of the Long Shadows (Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Pete Walker, stars Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing, along with John Carradine and Desi Arnaz Jr., and the disc features separate commentary tracks by director Pete Walker and
film historian David Del Valle and an interview with Walker.
The money quote from
film historian David Thomson, writing in Film Comment: «This is a great film, one that returns us to an original aspiration in moviemaking: Have you seen this?»
The film historian David Curtis has described Keen's creation of Pop Art film as unique in Britain at this time.
Not exact matches
Written by
David Hare (The Reader) and directed by Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard, Temple Grandin), the
film vigorously conveys the tense story of Lipstadt's legal battle with British
historian David Irving, of whom she was accused of libel.
The idea that the fate of this little racehorse that could (and ultimately, even the idea that the horse is an underdog is a bit of a cheat, since Seabiscuit's lineage was sterling — less «underdog» than «underachiever») galvanized a nation reeling under the Great Depression is the only idea that remains in the
film, seized by Ross as an opportunity to insert archive stills of the period — complete with voice - over from
historian David McCullough — to lend his horse opera the sort of gravitas he's not able to provide through narrative.
The makers of this splendid
film are also helped along by the fact that this is really an old - fashioned courtroom saga, a dramatisation of the real life legal battle between
David Irving (the infamous Hitler apologist) and respected
historian Deborah E. Lipstadt, who ripped Irving a new one and labeled him a «denier» in her 1993 book Denying the Holocaust.
The other three features are First Name: Carmen (1983), Detective (1984), and Helas Pour Moi (aka Oh, Woe Is Me, 1993), and the disc features the half - hour documentary «Jean - Luc Godard: A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma,» with
film critics and
historians Kent Jones, Winston Wheeler Dixon and
David Sterritt.
Extras: Audio commentary with
film producer and
historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the
film and select scene commentary by
film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker
David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by
David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his
films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.
Special Features Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer
David Foster New making - of documentary, featuring members of the Cast and Crew New conversation about the
film and Altman's career between
film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell Featurette from the
film's 1970 production Art Directors Guild
Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and
film critic Pauline Kael Trailer PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich
Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the
film New interview with
film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the
film's editing New interview with
film critic and jazz
historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the
film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and
David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
This footage, which is longer than the
film itself, includes excerpts from interviews with presidential adviser George Ball, broadcast journalist
David Brinkley, French journalist and
historian Philippe Devillers, and political activist Tony Russo; additional excerpts from General William Westmoreland's interview; additional audio excerpts from presidential adviser Walt Rostow's interview; and scenes from a funeral and a military hospital in South Vietnam.
I was almost as excited about «Denial,» a
film about the true story of
historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), an American sued for libel in British courts by
David Irving (Timothy Spall), a British Holocaust denier who accused her of defamation.
Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by sing - songwriter Suzanne Vega and
film historians Derek Botelho and
David Del Valle; separate audio commentary by Carson McCullers biographer Virginia Spencer Carr; a featurette on McCullers; and a discussion of the property by actor Kevin Spacey and Karen Kramer, wife of the
film's producer, Stanley Kramer.
These include an introduction by Martin Scorsese, a commentary with
film composer
David Newman and
film historians Jon Burlingame, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman, a making - of featurette, a look at the music of The Robe (the Alfred Newman's score has an isolated music track), still galleries and an interactive press book.
Audio commentary featuring
film critic and
historian David Robinson and actor Malcolm McDowell
Rounding out the disc: forced trailers for.45 (decidedly unappetizing and NOT a remake of Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45) and The Zodiac (NOT the
David Fincher
film) and an optional one for Going to Pieces; and a special message from
film historian Adam Rockoff, who wrote the book Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of Slasher
Film and enthusiastically endorses this adaptation.
The second track is headlined by
historian Jeanine Basinger, and composer
David Raksin (who wrote the
film's hugely popular theme).
The book also features interviews with costume designer Milena Canonero, composer Alexandre Desplat, lead actor Ralph Fiennes, production designer Adam Stockhausen, and cinematographer Robert Yeoman; essays by
film critics Ali Arikan and Steven Boone,
film theorist and
historian David Bordwell, music critic Olivia Collette, and style and costume consultant Christopher Laverty; and an introduction by playwright Anne Washburn.
David Vaughan was the archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, author of Merce Cunningham / 65 Years and Frederick Ashton and His Ballets, and was the dance
historian in residence of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division from 2012 onward, holding monthly screenings of his favourite dance
films and videos.
To learn more about the Hadza, look out for the documentary
film «Hadza: Last of the First,» directed and produced by Bill Benenson and featuring engaging interviews with Jane Goodall, late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, author Peter Mathiessen, Hadza
historian and Conservancy partner Daudi Peterson, and the Conservancy's Africa director,
David Banks.