Under the Volcano
1984 -
Release Date: 10/23/2007
Features:
DVD Features:
2-Disc Set
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Michael Fitzgerald, Wieland Schulz-Keil, Moritz Berman - Producers
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Featurette:
1. "Notes from UNDER THE VOLCANO"
2. "Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry"
Interviews:
1. Jacqueline Bisset - Star
2. Guy Gallo - Screenplay
3. John Huston - Director (1984, Audio)
Time:
112
mins.
J&R Item # 1022337_6
UPC # 715515026420
Label: Criterion Collection
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A boozing ex-British consulate, his estranged wife and his half-brother suffer in a private hell in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1939, on "El Dia De Los Muertos" (The Day of the Dead). From Malcolm Lowry's 1947 novel. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Actor--Albert Finney.
"...Especially impressive for the courage, intelligence and restraint with which it tackles [the] impossible....Daring..."
-- Janet Maslin
, (New York Times)
"...A triumphant artistic success....[Finney] is simply extraordinary..." -- Strat. , (Variety) "[Finney's] Geoffrey Firmin is one of the most unnervingly and heartbreakingly convincing alcoholics ever capture on film..." -- Michael Brooke , (Sight and Sound) |