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Matewan / Cinecom Entertainment Group and Film Gallery in association with Goldcrest present a Red Dog Films production ; produced by Peggy Rajski and Maggie Renzi ; written and directed by John Sayles.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 032 643 disc 1-2 + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 999.
- The Criterion collection ; 999
- Standardized Title:
- Matewan (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921--Drama.
- Coal Strike, W. Va., 1920-1921.
- Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Drama.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Race relations.
- Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining.
- West Virginia--Race relations--Drama.
- West Virginia.
- Genre:
- Historical films.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 leaf : color illustrations ; folded to 17 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- color
- stamping
- Edition:
- Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (S
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent provocations. With a crackerjack ensemble cast--including James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, and Will Oldham--and Oscar-nominated cinematography by Haskell Wexler, Matewan taps into a rich vein of Americana with painstaking attention to local texture, issuing an impassioned cry for justice that still resounds today"--Container.
- Contents:
- disc one. [Feature film]; trailer
- disc two. [Special edition features].
- Participant:
- Chris Cooper, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Ken Jenkins, Kevin Tighe, Gordon Clapp, Bob Gunton, Jace Alexander, Joe Grifasi, Nancy Mette, Jo Henderson, Josh Mostel, Gary McCleery, Maggie Renzi, Tom Wright, Michael Preston, Tom Carlin, Jenni Cline, Michael A. Mantel, James Earl Jones.
- Credits:
- Music, Mason Daring ; costume designer, Cynthia Flynt ; production designer, Nora Chavooshian ; editor, Sonya Polonsky ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler ; art director, Dan Bishop.
- Notes:
- Title and credits from screen.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1987.
- Widescreen (1.85:1).
- Features: new 4k digital restoration, supervised by director John Sayles; audio commentary from 2013 featuring Sayles and cinematographer Haskell Wexler; two new documentaries on making of the film featuring Sayles, producer Maggie Renzi, production designer Nora Chavooshian, and actors Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, and David Strathairn; new interview with composer Mason Daring; short documentary on the impact that Matewan's production had on West Virginia; new program on the film's production design featuring Chavooshian; original theatrical trailer; an essay by critic A.S. Hamrah (on insert).
- ISBN:
- 9781681436531
- 1681436531
- OCLC:
- 1117308413
- Publisher Number:
- 715515236119
- CC3081D The Criterion Collection
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