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Broadcast news / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; a Gracie Films production ; written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks ; produced in association with Americent Films and American Entertainment Partners L.P.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1995.9.C55 B7634 2011 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 552.
- Criterion Collection ; 552
- Standardized Title:
- Broadcast news (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Broadcast journalism--Washington (D.C.)--Drama.
- Broadcast journalism.
- Television journalists--Washington (D.C.)--Drama.
- Television journalists.
- Women television producers and directors--Washington (D.C.)--Drama.
- Women television producers and directors.
- Television news anchors--Washington (D.C.)--Drama.
- Television news anchors.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Drama.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Washington (D.C.).
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
- plastic
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- [Blu-ray version, Widescreen format], Blu-ray special ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2010.
- Language Note:
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Region A; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; dts-HD Master Audio 2.0 surround.
- This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Master Audio
- region A
- video file
- Blu-ray
- Summary:
- A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, in which a feisty television producer finds herself torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter.
- Participant:
- William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Jack Nicholson, Joan Cusack.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus; film editor, Richard Marks ; music by Bill Conti.
- Notes:
- Title from container; additional cast and credits from booklet in container.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987.
- Release date: Jan. 25, 2011.
- Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director James L. Brooks and editor Richard Marks, with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; new audio commentary featuring Brooks and Marks; James L. Brooks: a singular voice, a new documentary on Brooks's career in television and film, featuring actresses Marilu Henner and Julie Kavner, among other collaborators; alternate ending and deleted scenes, with commentary by Brooks; new video interview with veteran CBS news producer Susan Zirinsky, one of the models for actress Holly Hunter's character and an associate producer on the film; featurette containing on-set footage and interviews with Brooks, Hunter, and actor Albert Brooks; original theatrical trailer; accompanying booklet features an essay by film critic Carrie Rickey.
- For private home use only.
- ISBN:
- 9781604653694
- 1604653698
- OCLC:
- 694630187
- Publisher Number:
- 715515066617
- 00715515066617 gtin-14
- CC1967BD Criterion Collection
- Online:
- View cover art
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