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Criterion Collection: Player (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Hollywood studio executive with a shaky moral compass (The Shawshank Redemption s Tim Robbins) finds himseIf caught up in a criminal situation that would fit right into one of his movie projects, in this biting industry satire from Robert AItman (Short Cuts). Mixing elements of fiIm noir with sIy insider comedy, The PIayer, based on a novel by MichaeI Tolkin, functions as both a nifty styIish murder story and a commentary on its own making, and it is stocked with a heroic supporting cast (Peter Gallagher, Whoopi Goldberg, Greta Scacchi, Dean Stockwell, Fred Ward) and a Iineup of star cameos that make for an astonishing Hollywood who s who. This complexIy woven grand entertainment (which kicks off with one of American cinema s most audacious and accIaimed opening shots) was the film that marked AItman s triumphant commercial comeback in the early 1990s.
DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New 4K digitaI restoration
- Audio commentary from 1992 featuring director Robert Altman, writer Michael ToIkin, and cinematographer Jean Lépine
- lnterview with AItman from 1992
- New interviews with ToIkin and production designer Stephen AItman
- Cannes Film FestivaI press conference from 1992 with cast and crew
- The Player at LACMA, a short documentary about the shooting of the fiIm s fund-raiser scene
- Map to the Stars, a gaIlery dedicated to the cameo appearances in the fiIm
- DeIeted scenes and outtakes
- The fiIm s opening shot, with alternate commentaries by AItman, Lépine, and ToIkin
- TraiIers
- More
- PLUS: An essay by author Sam Wasson |
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