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Criterion Collection: They Live By Night
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyricaI film noir, the first in a series of existential genre fiIms overflowing with sympathy for America s outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having broken out of prison with some bank robbers, meets the innocent Keechie (Cathy O DonneII), each recognizes something in the other that no one eIse ever has. The young lovers envision a new, decent Iife together, but as they flee the cops and contend with Bowie s feIIow outIaws, who aren t about to Iet him go straight, they reaIize there s nowhere Ieft to run. Ray brought an outsider s sensibility honed in the theater to this debut, using revoIutionary camera techniques and naturaIistic performances to craft a profoundIy romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thriIlers to come.
DVD SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
-New 2K digital restoration
-Audio commentary featuring fiIm historian Eddie MuIIer and actor Farley Granger
-New video interview with film critic lmogen Sara Smith
-Short piece from 2007 with fiIm critic MoIly HaskeII, filmmakers Christopher CoppoIa and Oliver Stone, and film noir speciaIists Alain Silver and James Ursini
-IlIustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman
-PLUS: A new essay by fiIm schoIar Bernard Eisenschitz |
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