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World Cinema - Classic
ESSENTIAL WORLD CINEMA: UK
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About the DVD
Director: Peter Greenaway, Alan Bridges, Sally PotterFormat: PAL
Language: ENGLISH
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 3
Rating: M
DVD Release Date: 01/12/2007
Run Time: 291
Genre(s):
Special features
- ORLANDO
- Orlando Goes To Russia (documentary)
- Orlando In Uzbekistan (documentary)
- Jimmy Was An Angel (documentary)
- Venice Film Festival Press Conference
- Theatrical Trailer
- THE DRAUGHTSMANS CONTRACT
- Filmed Introduction By Peter Greenaway
- Feature Commentary By Peter Greenaway
- Interview With Composer Michael Nyman
- Behind-The-Scenes Footage
- On-Set Interviews
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailers For The Draughtsman's Contract And A
- Zed & Two Noughts
- Featurette On The Film's Digital Restoration
- Photo Gallery
Synopsis
Experience the very best in English cinema with this must-own collection of landmark English films on DVD. Featuring the most prestigious directors in English cinema history, including Sally Potter and Peter Greenaway, these are films to cherish for a lifetime.
Orlando
Tilda Swinton (Vanilla Sky) stars in Sally Potter’s dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel. This enchanting story of self-discovery follow’s the apparently immortal, gender-bending Orlando on an epic quest for love and freedom from the court of Elizabeth I to the present day.
Award wreaths: Winner, OCIC Award, Venice Film Festival (1992)
The Shooting Party
James Mason (Lolita) is brilliant as Sir Randolph Nettleby, a charming, elderly aristocrat who invites a party of lords and ladies to his estate for an indulgent shooting weekend on the eve of WW1, only to realise that the days of the nobility may be numbered.
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Master director Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) employs extravagant costumes, a twisting plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a mesmerisng score by Michael Nyman in this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery that’s a treat for fans of sophisticated English drama.
Orlando
Tilda Swinton (Vanilla Sky) stars in Sally Potter’s dazzling adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel. This enchanting story of self-discovery follow’s the apparently immortal, gender-bending Orlando on an epic quest for love and freedom from the court of Elizabeth I to the present day.
Award wreaths: Winner, OCIC Award, Venice Film Festival (1992)
The Shooting Party
James Mason (Lolita) is brilliant as Sir Randolph Nettleby, a charming, elderly aristocrat who invites a party of lords and ladies to his estate for an indulgent shooting weekend on the eve of WW1, only to realise that the days of the nobility may be numbered.
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Master director Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) employs extravagant costumes, a twisting plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a mesmerisng score by Michael Nyman in this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery that’s a treat for fans of sophisticated English drama.
