A master builder
2015
DVD
Twenty years after their brilliant cinema-theater experiment Vanya on 42nd Street, Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory reunited to produce another idiosyncratic big-screen version of a classic play, this time Henrik Ibsen's Bygmester Solness (Master Builder Solness). Brought pristinely to the screen by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this is a compellingly abstract reimagining; it features Shawn (who also wrote the adaptation) as a visionary but tyrannical middle-aged architect haunted by figures from his past, most acutely an attractive, vivacious young woman (the breathtaking newcomer Lisa Joyce) who has appeared on his doorstep. Also featuring standout supporting performances from Julie Hagerty (Airplane!), Larry Pine (Moonrise Kingdom), and Gregory, A Master Builder, like Vanya, is the result of many years of rehearsals, a living, breathing, constantly shifting work that unites theater, film, and dream.
Item Details
ISBN: 1681430045
Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (127 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1
- video file DVD video region 1
Target Audience Note: CHVR: NR.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
- Special features: New interview with director Jonathan Demme, director and star Andre Gregory, and screenwriter and actor Wallace Shawn, conducted by film critic David Edelstein; New conversation between actors Julie Hagerty and Lisa Joyce; New program featuring Gregory, Shawn, and their friend the author Fran Lebowitz in conversation; trailer; Plus: an essay by critic film Michael Sragow.
- Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty, Lisa Joyce.
- DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- For private home use only.
Publisher or Distributor Number: 11311383
Control Number: 1205673
UPC: 715515148610
Publisher: [Irvington, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2015]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 762. DVD.
- Criterion collection ; 762
Subjects:
Genre: Feature films.
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