Title:
Deep cover [DVD video]
Added Author:
Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publication Date:
2021
1992
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
©1992.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm)
ISBN:
9781681438603
Abstract:
"Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne stars as Russell Stevens, a police officer who goes undercover as 'John Hull,' the partner of a dangerously ambitious cocaine trafficker (Jeff Goldblum), in order to bring down a powerful Latin American drug ring operating in LA. But the further Stevens descends into this ruthless world of money, violence, and power, the more disillusioned he becomes--and the harder it is to make out the line between right and wrong, crime and justice. Steeped in shadowy, neon-soaked atmosphere and featuring Dr. Dre's debut solo single, Deep Cover is an unsung gem of the nineties' Black cinemal explosion that delivers a riveting character study and sleek action thrills alongside a furious moral indictment of America and the devastating failures of the war on drugs"--Container.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1992.
Features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with director Bill Duke; AFI Conservatory seminar from 2018 featuring Duke and actor Laurence Fishburne, moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell; New conversation between film scholars Racquel J. Gates and Michael B. Gillespie about Deep Cover's place within both the Black film boom of the early 1990s and the noir genre; New conversation between scholar Claudrena N. Harold and professor, DJ, and podcaster Oliver Wang about the film's title track and its importance to the history of hip-hop; Trailer; An essay by Gillespie.
Performers:
Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard, Gregory Sierra, Clarence Williams III, Rene Assa, Alex Colon, Roger Guenveur Smith, Sydney Lassick, Kamala Lopez, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Glynn Turman, James T. Morris, Sandra Gould, Charles Martin Smith.
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1:85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby 2.0 surround.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English; subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, drug use, and sensuality. No CHV rating available.