Title:
Days of heaven
ISBN:
9781934121931
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1978.
Special features: Commentary with Jack Fisk, Billy Weber, Patricia Norris, and Dianne Crittenden [audio feature]; Interview with Richard Gere [audio feature] (22 min.); Interview with Sam Shepard (13 min.); Interview with John Bailey (21 min.); Interview with Haskell Wexler (12 min.). Booklet includes essays "On Earth as it is in heaven" by Adrian Martin and "Shooting 'Days of Heaven'" by Nestor Almendros.
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Summary:
In 1910, Bill, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor. He flees to the Texas panhandle with his lover Abby and little sister Linda, where they work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. When Bill learns that the Farmer is ill and has less than a year to live, he encourages Abby to accept the man's attentions. The Farmer and Abby marry, and she and her "siblings" live in the big house, waiting for the Farmer to die, so Abby can inherit, and the three of them live happily ever after. But love seems to be a cure-all: the Farmer seems to be improving--and Abby is no longer seeing this as a marriage of convenience. From a landscape of panoramic vistas, vivid colors, and rich textures comes a timeless American idyll and a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1, NTSC; DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND; WIDESCREEN, PRESENTATION ASPECT RATIO 1.78:1; ENHANCED FOR 16:9 WIDESCREEN TELEVISIONS.
Language Note:
IN ENGLISH WITH OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH.
