A master builder / The Ibsen Project/Clinica Estetico presents ; in association with Westward Productions and Scott Griffin ; produced by Rocco Caruso, André Gregory, Wallace Shawn ; screenplay by Wallace Shawn ; directed by Jonathan Demme.
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2015
Description:
2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014. Widescreen (1.78:1/2.35:1). Based on the play "Master Builder Solness" by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Wallace Shawn ; created for the stage by André Gregory. Special features: Disc 2: The Ibsen Project (film critic David Edelstein talks to director Jonathan Demme, actor André Gregory, and actor-writer Wallace Shawn about the making of the film); Hilde and Aline (actors Lisa Joyce and Julie Hagerty discuss their roles in the film); Over time (writer Fran Lebowitz talks to André Gregory and Wallace Shawn about their long collaboration in theater and film); Trailer. Insert features an essay by critic film Michael Sragow. Jeff Biehl, André Gregory, Julie Hagerty, Lisa Joyce, Emily Cass McDonnell, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn, Winsome Brown, Marjorie Graham, Joanna Howard, Sheilagh Weymouth.
Summary:
A visionary yet tyrannical middle-aged architect is haunted by figures from his past.
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