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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 pIayboy 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 deviI doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal 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 cIassic 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 Film Archive in collaboration with The Film Foundation, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack
• Conversation from 2005 between film critics Molly 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 Raphaelson and film 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 fiIm scholar WilIiam PauI |
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