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The ice storm Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Good Machine production, an Ang Lee film; produced by Ted Hope, James Schamus and Ang Lee ; screenplay by James Schamus ; directed by Ang Lee.

Title: The ice storm [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents a Good Machine production, an Ang Lee film; produced by Ted Hope, James Schamus and Ang Lee ; screenplay by James Schamus ; directed by Ang Lee.
Publication: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2008]

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	disc 1-2 + program notes	Moving image	Request in advance	PN1995.9.M45 I24 2008 disc 1-2 + program notes	Off-site

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Description

2 videodiscs (113 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in. +

Summary

Thanksgiving 1973. The climate is changing, both politically and physically. As the Watergate scandal unfolds in the background, the inhabitants of a small Conneticut town begin to slip into an existentialist void. Social taboos are shattered on whims and the line between adult authority and juvenile irresponsibility is practically nonexistant. Focuses on the Hood and Carver families. Chronicles a brief period of rapid moral deterioration. Their actions - including adultery, sexual experimentation, drug use and petty crimes - become increasingly unpredictable and impulsive. Once the 'ice storm' hits, though, reality sinks in, and the severity of their situation becomes all to apparent.

Series Statement

The Criterion collection ; 426

Uniform Title

Criterion collection 426.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Feature films
Melodrama.
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
DVD-Video discs.
Melodrama – Feature.
Adaptation – Feature.
Family – Feature.
Melodrama

Note

Title from container.
Based on the novel by Rick Moody.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
Special features on disc one include new, restored transfer, supervised and approved by director Ang Lee and director of photography Frederick Elmes; audio commentary featuring Lee and producer-screenwriter James Schamus; theatrical trailer. Special features on disc two include new documentary featuring interviews with actors Joan Allen, Kevin Kline, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver and Elijah Wood; new video interview with novelist Rick Moody; deleted scenes; footage from an event honoring Lee and Schamus at new York's Museum of the Moving Image; visual essays on the look of the film, featureing interviews with the cinematographer, production designer, and costume designer; a new essay by film critic Bill Krohn.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Frederick Elmes ; editor, Tim Squyres ; composer, Mychael Danna ; costume designer, Carol Oditz ; production designer, Mark Friedberg.

Performer (note)

Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Adam Hann-Byrd, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Jamey Sheridan, Elijah Wood, Sigourney Weaver, Katie Holmes, David Krumholtz, Michael Cumpsty, Allison Janney, Glenn Fitzgerald.

Audience (note)

MPAA rating: R; for sexuality and drug use, including scenes involving children, and for language.

System Details (note)

DVD ; Dolby digital stereo. ; region 1 encoding.

Language (note)

English audio track with optional SDH subtitles in English.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Disc 1. [Feature] -- Disc 2. [Special features].

ISBN

9781604650235
1604650230

LCCN

715515028424
00715515028424

OCLC

190864792
SCSB-12541331

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library