Written on the wind
2022
Blu-ray
The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy; these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary has the misfortune of marrying the clan's neurotic scion, it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury. Featuring an unforgettably debauched, Oscar-winning supporting performance by Dorothy Malone and some of Sirk's most eye-popping mise-en-scene, this film is as perverse a family portrait as has ever been splashed across the screen
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781681439112
- 1681439115
Uniform Title: Written on the wind (Motion picture)
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 unnumbered leaf : color illustrations ; 33 x 49 cm, folded to 13 x 17 cm).
- 4 3/4 in
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- mono
- videodisc
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Notes:
- Title and credits from screen
- Based on the novel by Robert Wilder
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1956
- Wide screen (1.85:1)
- Special features: Acting for Douglas Sirk, a 2008 documentary; new interview with film scholar Patricia White; trailer; an essay by filmmaker and critic Blair McClendon
- Accompanied by folded sheet containing essay by filmmaker and critic Blair McClendon
- Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Russell F. Schoengarth ; music, Frank Skinner
- Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams
- Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH)
- System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players.
- Blu-ray; region A; LPCM monaural; requires Blu-ray player
- English dialogue
LCCN: be2022004730
Publisher or Distributor Number: CC3329BD
Control Number: 3153195
UPC: 715515268417
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2022]Series:
Subjects:
- Dysfunctional families -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Texas -- Drama.
- Rich people -- Drama.
- Siblings -- Drama.
- Spouses -- Drama.
- Texas -- Drama.
- Wilder, Robert, 1901-1974 -- Film adaptations.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014, actor.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
- Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985, actor.
- Keith, Robert, 1896-1966, actor.
- Malone, Dorothy, actor.
- Metty, Russell, director of photography.
- Motion picture adaptation of (work): Wilder, Robert, 1901-1974. Written on the wind.
- Schoengarth, Russell, editor of moving image work.
- Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987, film director.
- Skinner, Frank, 1897-1968, composer (expression)
- Stack, Robert, 1919-2003, actor.
- Universal-International (Firm), presenter, production company.
- Zuckerman, George, 1916-1996, screenwritter.
- Zugsmith, Albert, producer.