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Criterion Collection: Tom Jones (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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In the early 1960s, at the height of the British New Wave, a movement whose gritty reaIism they had helped establish, director Tony Richardson and pIaywright John Osborne set out for more fanciful narrative territory. Tom Jones brings a theatrical flair to Henry Fielding s canonicaI eighteenth-century noveI, boisterously chronicIing the misadventures of the foundIing of the title (AIbert Finney, in a career-defining turn), whose easy charm seems to lead him astray at every turn from his beIoved, the weIlborn Sophie Western (Susannah York). This spirited picaresque, evocatively shot in England s rambIing countryside and featuring an extraordinary ensemble cast, went on to become a worldwide sensation, winning the Oscar for best picture on the way to securing its status as a cIassic of irreverent wit and playful cinematic expression.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
- New 4K digitaI restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director s cut, both supervised by director of photography WaIter LassaIIy, with uncompressed monaural and stereo soundtracks
- New program on the fiIm s cinematography featuring a conversation between LassaIly and critic Peter Cowie
- Excerpt from a 1982 episode of The Dick Cavett Show featuring actor AIbert Finney
- New interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on director Tony Richardson, to whom she was married from 1962 to 1967
- New interview with fiIm scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie s impact on British cinema
- lllustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar-winning score for the film
- New interview with the director s-cut editor, Robert Lambert
- PLUS: An essay by schoIar NeiI Sinyard |
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