Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

If-- (Motion picture : 1968)

Title:

If-- [videorecording] / Paramount ; a Memorial Enterprises film ; screenplay by David Sherwin ; produced by Michael Medwin and Lindsay Anderson ; directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.

Description:

2 videodiscs (112 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (28 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Summary:

In late 1960s England, Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn at their boarding school. He finally emerges as violent savior against the draconian games of one-upmanship played by both students and the powers that be.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 391.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 391.

Subjects:

Teenage boys -- England -- Drama.

Boarding schools -- England -- Drama.

Teacher-student relationships -- England -- Drama.

Dissenters -- England -- Drama.

Revolutions -- England -- Drama.

Nineteen sixties -- Drama.

Feature films.

Foreign films -- England.

Melodrama.

Juvenile delinquency films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Sherwin, David, 1942-2018

Medwin, Michael, 1923-2020

Anderson, Lindsay, 1923-1994.

McDowell, Malcolm, 1943-

Wood, David, 1944-

Warwick, Richard, 1945-1997.

Swann, Robert, 1945-2006.

Noonan, Christine.

Jeffrey, Peter, 1929-1999.

Lowe, Arthur, 1915-1982.

Ondrícek, Miroslav, 1934-2015

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Memorial Enterprises.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Thursday's children.

Notes:

"Special edition double-disc set"--Container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1968 [1969 on container].

Special features: Disc 1: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director of photography Miroslav Ondříček and assistant editor Ian Rakoff; audio commentary featuring film critic and historian David Robinson and actor Malcolm McDowell ; Disc 2: A 2003 episode from the Scottish TV series "Cast and crew," featuring McDowell, Ondříček, Rakoff, director's assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin; new video interview with actor Graham Crowden; "Thursday's children" (1954), an Academy Award-winning documentary about a school for deaf children, directed by Anderson and Guy Brenton and narrated by Richard Burton ; plus, a booklet featuring pieces by critic David Ehrenstein, screenwriter David Sherwin, and director Lindsay Anderson.

Director of photography, Miroslav Ondříček ; editor, David Gladwell ; music composer and conductor, Marc Wilkinson.

Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Robert Swann, Christine Noonan, Peter Jeffrey, Arthur Lowe.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.66:1, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Contents:

Disc 1: The film (112 min.) -- Disc 2: The supplements.

ISBN:

1934121606

9781934121603

Publisher Number:

CC1699D

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

196363

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE If--

Medium:

[videorecording]