Stone reader

DVD 2004

In 1972, Mark Moskowitz, then 18, read John Seelye's review of The Stones of Summer in The New York Times Book Review and immediately bought a copy. He bogged down less than a hundred pages in and gave up, finally giving the yellowed paperback another pass in 1998. On that reading, the book struck a chord, and he saw why it was so rapturously received. Looking for more, Moskowitz did a search for Mossman works produced between 1972 and 1998--and...

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2 videodiscs (129 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
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optical
video file
DVD video

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: 14A ; MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief strong language

Notes:

"A film by Mark Moskowitz"
Cinematography, Joseph Vandergast, Jeffrey Confer, Mark Moskowitz ; editors, Mark Moskowitz, Kathleen Soulliere
Joseph Vandergast, Jule, Emmett, and Tacie Moskowitz, Clare Quinn, Andy Hertzfeld, John Goldstein, Gloria Moskowitz, Robert Ellis, Leslie Fiedler, Tom Furlong, John Steelye, Alice Seelye, Jim Blankman, Robert Gottlieb, Robert C.S. Downs, Bruce Dobler, John Kashiwabara, Frank Conroy, William Cotter Murray, Richard Wright, Dan Guenther, Carl Brandt, Dow Mossman
DVD ; widescreen
Winner, 2002 Slamdance International Film Festival Audience Award-Best Feature: Mark Moskowitz, and Jury Special Award: Mark Moskowitz

Contents:

Disc one. No one had heard of it
What was I doing in 1972
Leslie Fiedler
Maine
Joseph Heller died today
Obsessed
Walk in the past
I tried to help
Box of Stones
At last
Pip in the graveyard
Process is in you now Special features: Commentary [optional audio feature]; Other books [featurettes and text]; Web resources [text feature]; DVD credits [text feature]
Disc two. Special features: Betty Kelly (15 min.); Furthur conversations (24 min.); Leslie Fiedler: More from Stone Reader (6 min.); Leslie Fielder: From Firing Line (50 min.); A.S. Byatt & Toni Morrison (6 min.); Henry Roth: Connections across time (30 min.); Janet Maslin & Mark Moskowitz (20 min.); Featurette: What happened next (35 min.); Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival (9 min.); Deleted scenes (13 min.); Writers panel (13 min.); "First Story" by Cindy Stilwell (11 min.); Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Photo gallery

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1891953

UPC:

880490100592

Other Authors:

Alliance Films
Brandt, Carl (Carl D.)
Confer, Jeffrey
Conroy, Frank, 1936-2005
Dobler, Bruce
Downs, Robert C. S
Ellis, Robert
Fiedler, Leslie A
Goodman, Robert, producer
Gorman, Edward
Gottlieb, Robert
Jet Films (United States)
Kashwabara, John
Moskowitz, Mark, screenwriter, director, producer
Mossman, Dow
Point of View Productions (Berkeley, Calif.)
Soulliere, Kathleen
Steelye, John
Vandergast, Joe

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