Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 28, 2014
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The 1992 family drama The Long Day Closes is generally regarded as one of the finest works by the British writer/director Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea), one of Britain’s most respected filmmakers.
This autobiographical film takes on the perspective of a quiet, movie-loving boy named Bud (Leigh McCormack, in his one and only film role) growing up lonely in Liverpool in the 1950s. Rather than employ a straightforward narrative, Davies jumps in and out of time, swoops into fantasies and fears, summons memories and dreams.
An evocative, movie-and-music–besotted portrait of the artist as a young man, The Long Day Closes fuses clips and audio from classic movies into Bud’s childhood and brings it all to elegant life.
Criterion’s Blu-ray/DVD Combo release of the PG-13-rated film contains the following features:
• New, high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentary by director Terence Davies and director of photography Michael Coulter
• Episode from 1992 of the British television series The South Bank Show with Davies, featuring on-set footage from The Long Day Closes and interviews with cast and crew
• New interviews with executive producer Colin MacCabe and production designer Christopher Hobbs
• Trailer
• One Blu-ray and one DVD, with all content available in both formats
• A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Koresky
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