Author: Susan George

Brand: The Criterion Collection

Features:

• Shrink-wrapped

Format: Collector's Edition

PartNumber: BRCC2778

Release Date: 27-06-2017

Details: In this thriller, arguably Sam Peckinpah s 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 Peckinpah s 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 he ll go to protect his home culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind s eloquent and bloody vision of humanity.brbrBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESbr-New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackbr-Audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince, author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies br-Mantrap: Straw Dogs The Final Cut, a 2003 documentary about the making of the film, featuring cast and crewbr-Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, a 1993 documentary about the director featuring actors Kris Kristofferson, Jason Robards, Ali MacGraw, and many othersbr-New conversation between film critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode, who worked as one of the editors on the film br-New interview with film scholar Linda Williams about the controversies surrounding the film br-Archival interviews with actor Susan George, producer Daniel Melnick, and Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons br-Behind-the-scenes footagebr-TV spots and trailers br-PLUS: An essay by scholar and critic Joshua Clover

UPC: 715515199216

EAN: 0715515199216

Model: BRCC2778

Languages: English

Binding: blu_ray