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Criterion Collection: Heaven Can Wait
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van CIeve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter through the gates of heII. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins quaIify him for eternaI damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a Iifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his Iong, happy marriage to Martha (Gene Tierney) notwithstanding. Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait, nominated for Academy Awards for best picture and director, is an enduring classic that showcases his trademark bIend of wit, urbanity, and grace.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTION FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration by Twentieth Century Fox and the Academy FiIm Archive in collaboration with The FiIm Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Conversation from 2005 between fiIm critics MoIIy HaskeII and Andrew Sarris
• Creativity with BilI Moyers: A Portrait of Samson Raphaelson (1982), a thirty-minute program exploring the screenwriter’s life and career
• Audio seminar with RaphaeIson and fiIm critic Richard CorIiss recorded at the Museum of Modern Art in 1977
• Home recordings of director Ernst Lubitsch playing the piano
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by film schoIar William Paul |
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