Cowards bend the knee
2010
DVD
A hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her father's murder.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note: CHVR: Not rated.
Other Title:
- Also known as: Blue hands [DVD]
- Cowards bend the knee (Motion picture)
Notes:
- Special features: audio commentary by Guy Maddin ; Love-Chaunt workbooks ; behind-the-scenes for The brand upon the brain ; photo archive ; artistic statement ; chracter sketches ; missing script excerpt ; essay "A note on hands."
- Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation released in 2003.
- One disc from a 4 disc boxed set called "Quintessential Guy Maddin!"
- Editor, John Gurdebeke.
- Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle, Henry Mogatas, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, Mike Bell, David Stuart Evans.
- DVD, NTSC ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; region 1.
- Silent with English intertitles.
Control Number: 941128
UPC: 795975113236
Publisher: [United States] : Zeitgeist Films, 2010.Series:
Subjects:
- Abortion services -- Drama.
- Beauty operators -- Drama.
- Hockey players -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Murder -- Drama.
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