Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Topsy-turvy / October Films presents in association with Thin Man Films, the Greenlight Fund, Newmarket Capital Group a Simon Channing-Williams production of a Mike Leigh film ; producer, Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.

Edition:

Director approved blu-ray special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

burning

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray

region A (Blu-ray)

auditory captions

visual audio description

Summary:

The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in this extraordinary dramatization of the staging of their legendary 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner brilliantly inhabit the roles of the world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, respectively, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R; for a scene of risque nudity.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 558

Criterion collection ; 558.

Subjects:

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 -- Drama.

Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Channing-Williams, Simon, producer.

Leigh, Mike, 1943- writer.

Broadbent, Jim, actor.

Corduner, Allan, actor.

Spall, Timothy, 1957- actor.

Davis, Carl, 1936-2023 music.

October Films, production company.

Thin Man Films (Firm), production company.

Greenlight Fund (Firm), production company.

Newmarket Capital Group LP., film distributor.

Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.

Notes:

Title from container.

"Spine #558".

Originally produced in 1999.

Release date: Mar. 29, 2011.

Special features: audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh, video conversation between Leigh and musical director Gary Yershon, Leigh's 1992 short film A sense of history, deleted scenes, featurette from 1999, theatrical trailer and TV spots, and a booklet featuring film critic Amy Taubin.

Casting, Nina Gold ; costume designer, Lindy Hemming ; music from Arthur Sullivan, Carl Davis ; editor, Robin Sales ; cinematography, Dick Pope.

Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Ron Cook, Wendy Nottingham, Kevin McKidd, Shirley Henderson, Dorothy Atkinson, Martin Savage, Eleanor David.

Blu-ray.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

English descriptive audio track

Contents:

Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

ISBN:

9781604653960

1604653965

Publisher Number:

CC1989BD

Other Number:

730534497

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1013036

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Topsy-tu