| Product Summary | | Publisher: Image | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00715515018920 | | Buy.com Sku: 202600067 | | Item#: V2DDS3 | | Category Keywords: Adventure War World War II | | Rating: NR |
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Features: DVD, Mono Audio, English
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's beloved classic is a profoundly personal journey to Powell's bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amidst the tumult of the Second World War yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims -- a melancholy "landgirl," a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant -- who are waylaid in the English countryside and forced to solve a bizarre village crime en route to the mythical town. Building to a majestic climax that ranks as one of the filmmaking duo's finest achievements, the dazzling A Canterbury Tale has acquired a following passionate enough to qualify as a pilgrimage all its own.System Requirements:Running Time 124 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE
"A film that you never really want to end." Gary W. Tooze, DVDBeaver.com
"Curious and disarming film..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
While World War II rages, an American G.I. and three Britishers find themselves en route to the hallowed cathedral on the same Pilgrims' way taken by travelers some 600 years before and reported in Chaucer's epic poem.
| Features | "A Canterbury Trail": A Documentary On The Annual Tour Of The Film's Locations | | "John Sweet: A Pilgirm's Return" - A Documentary On Actor John Sweet | | Artist Victor Burgin's Impressionistic Video Piece "Listen To Britain" | | Audio Commentary By Film Historian Ian Christie | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Humphrey Jenning's Landmark Documentary "Listen To Britain" | | Interactive Menus | | New Essays By Graham Fuller & Peter Von Burgh | | New Video Interview With Actress Sheila Sim | | Scene Selection | | Scenes From Michael Powell's Reedited American Version |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Image |
| Release Date: 7/25/2006 |
| Running Time: 124 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1944 | | Catalog ID: 1639 | | UPC: 00715515018920 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W |
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"[A] mystical paean to a disappearing England..." 10/01/2005 p.146Entertainment Weekly
"It's the English version of magical realism, as only Powell and Pressburger can do it: tart, never sentimental, with gorgeously shot landscapes." 07/28/2006 p.51 DVD Outsider 9 of 10
I'm still in a sort of stupor after seeing it and my decidedly odd emotional response has nothing to do with the film's greatness, status as a classic nor my recognition of a film making pair at the height of their powers (after all, this was made shortly after the extraordinary Life and Death of Colonel Blimp). No. It's because the movie is so un-movie-like. It's more like a leisurely visual poem which ambles along like an uncoordinated puppy. And maybe that is precisely the point. I'm so confused by its status that I freely admit to being in two minds about it, the very definition of ambivalent.
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