If-- [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Paramount ; a Memorial Enterprises film ; screenplay by David Sherwin ; produced by Michael Medwin and Lindsay Anderson ; directed by Lindsay Anderson.
Format:
[videorecording (Blu-ray)] /
Edition:
Blu-ray special ed.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 p. : ill. ; 15 cm.)
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann, Peter Jeffrey, Arthur Lowe. Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. Blu-ray release date: Aug. 30, 2011. Special features: Restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Miroslav Ond�r�i�cek and assistant editor Ian Rakoff; audio commentary featuring film critic and historian David Robinson and actor Malcolm McDowell; episode of the Scottish TV series "Cast and crew" from 2003, featuring interviews with McDowell, Ond�r�i�cek, Rakoff, director's assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin; video interview with actor Graham Crowden; "Thursday's children" (1954), an Academy Award-winning documentary about a school for deaf children, directed by Anderson and Guy Brenton and narrated by Richard Burton ; plus, a booklet featuring pieces by critic David Ehrenstein, screenwriter David Sherwin, and director Lindsay Anderson.
Summary:
A daringly chaotic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Insouciant Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior against the vicious games of one-upmanship played by both students and masters.
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