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BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)

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User Rating:   7.5/10   1,174 votes

Criterion Collection # 507

DVD Release Date: March 23, 2010

Verenigde Staten
Drama
95 minuten

geregisseerd door Nicholas Ray
met James Mason, Barbara Rush en Walter Matthau

Ed Avery is een leraar die lijdt aan hevige pijnen en blackouts. Hij wordt opgenomen in het ziekenhuis met een zeldzame vorm van een ontsteking aan de aders. De doktoren vertellen hem dat hij hooguit nog enkele maanden te leven heeft. Wanhopig stemt Ed in met een experimentele hormoontherapie. Regelmatig moet hij een tablet met cortisonen innemen.

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WThough ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray?s Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking?and wildly entertaining.


READ:
Bigger Than Life: Somewhere in Suburbia
by B. Kite
Mar 18, 2010
criterion.com/current/posts/1412-bigger-than-life-somewhere-in-suburbia


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 6.89 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 95 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English

Subtitles: optional English


DISC FEATURES:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
# Audio commentary featuring critic Geoff Andrew (The Films of Nicholas Ray).
# Profile of Nicholas Ray (1977), a half-hour television interview with the director.
# New video appreciation of Bigger Than Life with author Jonathan Lethem (Chronic City).
# New video interview with Susan Ray, widow of the director and editor of I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies.
# Theatrical trailer.


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