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Title Days of heaven / Paramount Pictures ; produced by Bert and Harold Schneider ; written and directed by Terrence Malick.

Publication Info. [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Video  PN1997 .D397 2007    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1997 .D397 2007  booklet    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Series Criterion collection ; 409
Criterion collection ; 409.
System Details DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; widescreen, presentation aspect ratio 1.78:1; enhanced for 16:9 widescreen televisions.
Cast Richard Gere (Bill), Brooke Adams (Abby), Sam Shepard (the Farmer), Linda Manz (Linda), Robert Wilke (the farm Foreman).
Credits Director of photography, Nestor Almendros, additional photography, Haskell Wexler ; edited by Billy Weber ; music composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone, additional music, Leo Kottke ; art director, Jack Fisk ; costumes designed by Patricia Norris.
Note Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1978.
Audience MPAA rating: Rated PG.
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.
Contents Going places -- Work -- Harvest -- Abby -- Prognosis -- Job ends -- Tired -- Staying on -- Future -- Marriage -- Rich -- Out for a walk -- "I don't know you" -- Flying circus -- Business -- Return -- Locusts -- "Nobody's perfect" -- Hunted -- New beginnings.
Note 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.
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Nestor Almendros); Cannes Film Festival Best Director (Terrence Malick) 1979.
Language In English with optional subtitles in English.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Farmers -- Texas -- Drama.
Farmers.
Texas.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Texas -- Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Western films.
Western films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Subject Love triangles.
Genre/Form Drama.
Added Author Malick, Terrence, 1943-
Schneider, Bert, 1933-2011.
Schneider, Harold.
Gere, Richard, 1949-
Adams, Brooke, 1949-
Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
Manz, Linda, 1961-2020.
Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Southwestern Writers Collection (Albert B. Alkek Library)
Note Title on container and disc label: Terrence Malick's Days of heaven
ISBN 1934121932
9781934121931
Standard No. 715515026321
00715515026321
Music No. CC1717D The Criterion Collection