A master builder

DVD 2015

Twenty years after their brilliant cinema-theater experiment Vanya on 42nd Street, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory reunited to produce another idiosyncratic big-screen version of a classic play, this time Henrik Ibsen's Bygmester Solness (Master Builder Solness). Brought pristinely to the screen by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this is a compellingly abstract reimagining; it features Shawn (who also wrote the adaptation) as a visiona...

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ISBN:

1681430045

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (127 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
video file DVD video region 1

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Notes:

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Originally released as a motion picture in 2014
Special features: New interview with director Jonathan Demme, director and star Andre Gregory, and screenwriter and actor Wallace Shawn, conducted by film critic David Edelstein; New conversation between actors Julie Hagerty and Lisa Joyce; New program featuring Gregory, Shawn, and their friend the author Fran Lebowitz in conversation; trailer; Plus: an essay by critic film Michael Sragow
Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Lisa Joyce
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only

Control Number:

1205673

UPC:

715515148610

Other Authors:

Criterion Collection (Firm)
Demme, Jonathan, 1944-2017 film director
Hagerty, Julie, actor
Isben Project
Joyce, Lisa, actor
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Bygmester Solness. DVD
Shawn, Wallace, screenwriter, actor

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