Bergen County Cooperative Library System

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Chilly scenes of winter [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Triple Play Productions presents a film by Joan Micklin Silver ; screenplay by Joan Micklin Silver ; produced by Mark Metcalf, Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne ; directed by Joan Micklin Silver.

Edition:

Blu-ray edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

mono

video file

Blu-ray region A

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG.

Credits:

Cinematographer, Bobby Byrne ; editor, Cynthia Scheider ; music, Ken Lauber.

Performers:

John Heard (Charles), Mary Beth Hurt (Laura), Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame.

System Details:

Blu-ray, wide screen 1.85:1 aspect ratio; monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

Summary:

The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps never was. Switching deftly between past and present, Micklin Silver guides this piercing deconstruction of male wish-fulfillment fantasy beyond standard movie-romance tropes into something more complicated and cuttingly truthful.

Notes:

Based on the novel by Ann Beattie.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Wide screen.

Cinematographer, Bobby Byrne ; editor, Cynthia Scheider ; music, Ken Lauber.

John Heard (Charles), Mary Beth Hurt (Laura), Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame.

Blu-ray, wide screen 1.85:1 aspect ratio; monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 1176

Criterion collection ; 1176.

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