David Lean Directs Noel Coward [Criterion Collection] [4 Discs]

Criterion Collection (4Pc)

Overview

"British director David Lean often brought works based on the work of Noel Coward to the screen, and this box set compiles four of those movies including In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed, Blithe Spirit, and the revered romantic melodrama Brief Encounter."

Product Details

Release Date:	03/27/2012
UPC:	0715515093316
Original Release:	2012
Rating:	NR
Source:	Criterion Collection
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	6:47:00
Sales rank:	19,434

Special Features

New high-definition digital transfers of the BFI National Archive's 2008 restorations; Audio commentary on Brief Encounter by film historian Bruce Eder; New interviews with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day on all of the films; Interview with cinematographer-screenwriter-producer Ronald Neame from 2010; Short documentaries from 2000 on the making of In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter; David Lean: A Self Portrait, a 1971 television documentary on Lean's career; Episode of the British television series The Southbank Show from 1992 on the life and career of Coward; Audio recording of a 1969 conversation between actor Richard Attenborough and Coward at London's National Film Theatre; Trailers; PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by Ian Christie, Terrence Rafferty, Farran Smith Nehme, Geoffrey O'Brien, and Kevin Brownlow