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Title:

A Canterbury tale / Janus Films ; Independent Film Distributors ; written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Edition:

[2-disc special ed.].

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Other Authors:

Powell, Michael, 1905-1990.
Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988.
Portman, Eric, 1903-1969.
Sim, Sheila, 1922-
Price, Dennis, 1915-1973.
Sweet, John.
Knight, Esmond, 1906-1987.
Hillier, Erwin.
Gray, Allan, 1902-1973.

Notes:

Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1944. Special features: Disc 1: New digital transfer; Audio comentary by film historian Ian Christie; Scenes from Michael Powell's reedited American version ; Disc 2: New video interview with actress Sheila Sim; "John Sweet: a pilgrim's return": a short documentary on actor John Sweet's 2001 return to 'Canterbury'; "A Canterbury trail": a documentary featuring footage from the annual Kent walking tour of the film locations; Humphrey Jenning's landmark documentary "Listen to Britain" (1942); Artist Victor Burgin's impressionistic video piece "Listen to Britain" (2001), inspired by Jennings's film and "A Canterbury tale"; New essay by Graham Fuller and Peter von Bagh. Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sgt. John Sweet, Esmond Knight.

Summary:

Follow three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims - a landgirl, an American GI, and a British sergeant waylaid in the English countryside, forced to solve a bizarre village crime en route to a mythical town.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 341.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)69870660

Locations:

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)