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Broadcast news
Title
Broadcast news [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; a Gracie Films production ; written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.
ISBN
9781604653700
1604653701
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special ed.
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, 2010.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm).
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; new audio commentary on Brooks career in television and film; deleted scenes and an alternate ending, with commentary by Brooks; new video interview with veteran CBS new producer Susan Zirinsky; featurette containing on-set footage and interviews; original theatrical trailer; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Carrie Rickey.
Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus ; film editor, Richard Marks ; music by Bill Conti.
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Summary
A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2011
Series
Criterion collection ; 552
Credits
Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus ; film editor, Richard Marks ; music by Bill Conti.
Cast
William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter.
System details note
DVD, widescreen (16x9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 surround; region 1, NTSC.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Videorecording number
CC1968D Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
Gracie Films.
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