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Straw Dogs/bd
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Criterion Collection: Straw Dogs
In this thriller, arguably Sam Peckinpahs most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpahs world. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far hell go to protect his homeculminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic masterminds eloquent and bloody vision of humanity.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince, author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies
- Mantrap: Straw DogsThe Final Cut, a 2003 documentary about the making of the film, featuring cast and crew
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, a 1993 documentary about the director featuring actors Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards, Ali MacGraw, and many others
- New conversation between film critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode, who worked as one of the editors on the film
- New interview with film scholar Linda Williams about the controversies surrounding the film
- Archival interviews with actor Susan George, producer Daniel Melnick, and Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- TV spots and trailers
- PLUS: An essay by scholar and critic Joshua Clover
GENRE: Drama
LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: English SDH
AUDIO: Uncompressed Monaural PCM
Widescreen
TIME: 117 Minutes
COLOR
4K Restoration
Medien | Filme Blu-Ray (Blu-ray Disc) |
Discanzahl | 1 |
Erscheinungsdatum | 27. Juni 2017 |
Ursprünglich erschienen | 1971 |
EAN/UPC | 0715515199216 |
Label | Criterion CCIN2778BR |
Genre | Drama |
Maße | 136 × 170 × 13 mm · 108 g |
Laufzeit | 01:58:00 |
Region | Region A (Americas, East and Southeast Asia) |
Sprache | Originalsprache |
Untertitel | Englisch |
Hinweis: | Diese Ausgabe enthält keine Untertitel in Deutsch. |
Instrukteur | Sam Peckinpah |
Skuespiller | Dustin Hoffman |
Skuespiller | Susan George |
Skuespiller | Peter Vaughan |
Skuespiller | T.P. McKenna |
Skuespiller | Del Henney |
Skuespiller | Jim Norton |
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