Desert hearts [DVD video]

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Title:

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 902

Criterion collection ; 902.

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Publication Date:

2017

Publication Information:

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

ISBN:

9781681433752

Abstract:

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.

General Note:

Based on the novel, Desert of the heart' by Jane Rule.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit; audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; a new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; Remembering Reno: a new program featuring Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style; Women in love: new interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau; excerpt from Fiction and truths: a film about Jane Rule, a 1994 documentary about the author of Desert of the heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based; trailer; an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich on insert.

Performers:

Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwenn Welles, Dean Butler, James Staley, Katie Labourdette.

Technical Details:

DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 widescreen presentation; Dolby digital mono.

Subject Term:

Lesbians -- Nevada -- Reno -- Drama.

Female friendship -- Nevada -- Reno -- Drama.

Geographic Term:

Reno (Nev.) -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Romance films.