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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
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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Hurt, William, actor.
Brooks, Albert, 1947- actor.
Hunter, Holly, 1958- actor.
Nicholson, Jack, actor.
Cusack, Joan, 1962- actor.
Brooks, James L., film director, film producer, screenwriter.
Ballhaus, Michael, 1935-2017, director of photography.
Marks, Richard, 1943-2018, film editor.
Conti, Bill, composer (expression).
Zirinsky, Susan, interviewee (expression).
Rickey, Carrie, writer of accompanying material.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, presenter.
Gracie Films, production company.
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

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