Title:
Night on earth [DVD video]
Added Author:
Edition:
Director-approved special edition.
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (40 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
ISBN:
9781934121818
Abstract:
A collection of five stories involving cab drivers in five different cities. Los Angeles - A talent agent for the movies discovers her cab driver would be perfect to cast, but the cabbie is reluctant to give up her solid cab driver's career. New York - An immigrant cab driver is continually lost in a city and culture he doesn't understand. Paris - A blind girl takes a ride with a cab driver from the Ivory Coast and they talk about life and blindness. Rome - A gregarious cabbie picks up an ailing man and virtually talks him to death. Helsinki - an industrial worker gets laid off and he and his compatriots discuss the bleakness and unfairness of love and life and death.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991.
Wide screen (1.78:1).
Special features: selected-scene commentary by director of photography Frederick Elmes and location sound mixer Drew Kunin; Q & A with Jim Jarmusch; 1992 Belgian television interview with Jarmusch.
Booklet includes essays by Thom Andersen, Paul Auster, Bernard Eisenschitz, Goffredo Fofi, and Peter von Bagh and the lyrics to Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan's songs from the film.
Performers:
Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Rosie Perez, Isaach De Bankolé, Béatrice Dalle, Roberto Benigni, Paolo Bonacelli, Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Tomi Salmela.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital stereo.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Dialogue in English, French, Italian, and Finnish, with optional English subtitles; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Audience:
No CHV rating provided.