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The comfort of strangers / Skouras Pictures ; Angelo Rizzoli presents ; an Erre Produzioni, Sovereign Pictures production ; in association with Reteitalia s.p.a. ; a film by Paul Schrader ; screenplay by Harold Pinter ; produced by Angelo Rizzoli ; directed by Paul Schrader.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 424 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1041.
- Criterion collection ; 1041
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McEwan, Ian--Film adaptations.
- McEwan, Ian.
- English--Travel--Italy--Venice--Drama.
- English.
- English--Travel.
- Venice (Italy)--Drama.
- Venice (Italy).
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Italy--Venice.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Motion pictures, Italian.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (104 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (folded poster : color illustration ; 18 cm).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD; region 1, NTSC; wide screen (1.66:1); monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
- Participant:
- Christopher Walken, Natasha Richardson, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren.
- Credits:
- Editor, Bill Pankow ; cinematographer, Dante Spinotti ; composer, Angelo Badalamenti ; production desinger, Gianni Quaranta.
- Notes:
- Title from title frame.
- Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.
- Wide screen (1.66:1).
- Bonus features: new interviews with Spinotti, director Paul Schrader, actor Christopher Walken and editor Bill Pankow; interviews from 1981 and 2001 with novelist Ian McEwan and actor Natasha Richardson; trailers.
- ISBN:
- 9781681437521
- 168143752X
- OCLC:
- 1159458276
- Publisher Number:
- 715515250412
- CC3180DDVD The Criterion Collection
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