Cul-de-sac / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Compton-Tekli Film Productions Limited ; original screenplay by Roman Polanski and Gérard Brach ; executive producer, Sam Waynberg ; produced by Gene Gutowski ; directed by Roman Polanski.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: CC2032D | Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 577.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2011]Copyright date: Ã2011Edition: Director-approved DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black-and-white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type: - still image
- text
- two-dimensional moving image
- unmediated
- video
- videodisc
- volume
- 1604654503
- 9781604654509
- Producers, Michael Klinger, Tony Tenser ; director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; editor, Alastair McIntyre ; music by Komeda ; wardrobe, Bridget Sellers ; art director, George Lack ; production designer, Voytek.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | COMEDY Cul-de-s | Available | 33111008286276 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The fact that there isn't a single likeable character in Cul de Sac does not diminish its artistic value in the least. Ageing, furtively kinky Donald Pleasence is married to sexy young Francoise Dorleac. The couple's hermitlike tranquility is shattered when wounded gangsters Jack MacGowan and Lionel Stander invade their home and hold them hostage. As Dorleac urges her tremulous husband to do something, the two criminals begin behaving in a fashion that can only inadequately be described as eccentric. Drawing upon two of Polanski's favorite themes-isolation and latent insanity--Cul de Sac actually improves upon each viewing, assuming that the viewer has the intestinal fortitude to sit through it once. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Booklet inserted inside container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.
Restored high-definition digital transfer.
Special features: 'Two gangsters and an island' making-of documentary (2003); "The nomad" television interview with Polanski (1967); Theatrical trailers. Booklet: "High tides" essay by film critic David Thompson.
Producers, Michael Klinger, Tony Tenser ; director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; editor, Alastair McIntyre ; music by Komeda ; wardrobe, Bridget Sellers ; art director, George Lack ; production designer, Voytek.
Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, William Franklyn, Robert Dorning, Marie Kean, Renee Houston, Geoffrey Sumner, Iain Quarrier, Jackie Bisset, Trevor Delaney.
A withdrawn couple's isolated house is infiltrated by a rude, burly American gangster on the run. The three engage in role-playing games of sexual and emotional humiliations. An evocative, claustrophobic, and morbidly funny tale of the modern world in chaos.
DVD format; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby Digital mono.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.