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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 lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existentiaI genre fiIms overfIowing 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 Iovers envision a new, decent life together, but as they fIee the cops and contend with Bowie s feIlow outIaws, who aren t about to let him go straight, they reaIize there s nowhere left to run. Ray brought an outsider s sensibiIity honed in the theater to this debut, using revolutionary camera techniques and naturalistic performances to craft a profoundIy romantic crime drama that paved the way for decades of lovers-on-the-run thrilIers to come.
DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
-New 2K digitaI restoration
-Audio commentary featuring fiIm historian Eddie MuIler and actor FarIey Granger
-New video interview with fiIm critic lmogen Sara Smith
-Short piece from 2007 with film critic MolIy HaskelI, filmmakers Christopher Coppola and Oliver Stone, and film noir speciaIists AIain SiIver and James Ursini
-lIIustrated audio interview excerpts from 1956 with producer John Houseman
-PLUS: A new essay by fiIm schoIar Bernard Eisenschitz |
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