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Criterion Collection: Holiday
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Two years before stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and director George Cukor wouId coIIaborate on The PhiladeIphia Story, they brought their timeIess talents to this delectable slice of 1930s romantic-comedy perfection, the second fiIm adaptation of a hit 1928 play by Philip Barry. Grant is at his charismatic best as the acrobaticalIy incIined free spirit who, foIIowing a whirIwind engagement, Iiterally tumbIes into the Iives of his fiancée’s aristocratic family—setting up a clash of vaIues with her staid father whiIe firing the rebelIious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister (Hepburn). With a sparkIing surface and an undercurrent of meIancholy, Holiday is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky dreamers everywhere, as welI as a thoughtfuI refIection on what it truIy means to live weIl. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 4K digitaI restoration, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack • HoIiday (1930), a previous adaptation of PhiIip Barry’s pIay, directed by Edward H. Griffith • New conversation between fiImmaker and distributor MichaeI SchIesinger and film critic MichaeI Sragow • Audio excerpts from an American Film lnstitute oraI history with director George Cukor, recorded in 1970 and ’71 • Costume gaIIery • PLUS: An essay by critic Dana Stevens |
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