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Title:
Local hero [blu-ray]
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781681436364
Abstract:
Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
General Note:
Title and credits from screen.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.
Wide screen (1.78:1 aspect ratio).
New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
Director-approved special edition features: commentary soundtrack with director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode, recorded in 2018; New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns; Shooting from heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges; 1983 episode of The South Bank show, about the production of the film; The making of Local hero; I thought maybe I'd get to meet Alan Whicker, a 1983 interview with Forsyth; railer; plus, on insert, an essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray.
Performers:
Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton MacKay, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove, Burt Lancaster.
Technical Details:
Blu-ray; region A; 16:9 wide screen presentation; LPCM monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
English dialogue; optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Added Corporate Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Container of (work): Local hero (Motion picture)
Audience:
MPAA rating: PG.
