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Criterion Collection # 488

DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010

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Verenigd Koninkrijk / Japan
Drama
142 minuten

geregisseerd door James Ivory
met Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson en Helena Bonham Carter

Twee zusters hebben een ontmoeting met een rijke familie. De jongste wordt afgewezen door de zoon van de familie, en de oudste raakt bevriend met de rijke moeder. Uiteindelijk weet de oudste zuster zich in de rijke familie in te trouwen.

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The pinnacle of the decades-long collaboration between producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, Howards End is a luminous vision of E. M. Forster's cutting 1910 novel about class divisions in Edwardian England. Emma Thompson won an Academy Award for her dynamic portrayal of Margaret Schlegel, a flighty yet compassionate middle-class intellectual whose friendship with the dying wife (Vanessa Redgrave) of rich capitalist Henry Wilcox (Anthony Hopkins) commences an intricately woven tale of money, love, and death that encompasses the country's highest and lowest social echelons. With a brilliant, layered script by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (who also won an Oscar) and a roster of gripping performances, Howards End is a work of both great beauty and vivid darkness, and one of cinema?s best literary adaptations.



Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.72 + 7.08 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 142 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Sound (main feature): English

Subtitles: optional English


SET FEATURES:

# High-definition digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts and approved by director James Ivory.
# New video appreciation of the late Ismail Merchant by director Ivory.
# Building "Howards End," a documentary featuring interviews with Ivory, Merchant, Helena Bonham Carter, costume designer Jenny Beavan, and Academy Award?winning production designer Luciana Arrighi.
# The Design of "Howards End," a detailed look at the costume and production designs for the film, including original sketches.
# The Wandering Company, a 50-minute documentary about the history of Merchant Ivory Productions.
# Original 1992 behind-the-scenes featurette.
# Original theatrical trailer.


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