Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Broadcast news [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox ; a Gracie Films production ; a film by James L. Brooks ; executive producer, Polly Platt ; written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks.

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2010.

Description:

2 videodiscs (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A caustic inside look at the Washington news media, stars Holly Hunter in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter. James L. Brooks' witty, gently prophetic entertainment is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on love and media were rapidly changing.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 552.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 552.

Subjects:

Broadcast journalism -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.

Television journalists -- Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.

Women television producers and directors -- Drama.

Television news anchors -- Drama.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Washington (D.C.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Brooks, James L.

Platt, Polly.

Ballhaus, Michael, 1935-2017

Marks, Richard, 1943-2018

Conti, Bill.

Maginnis, Molly.

Rosen, Chuck.

Hurt, William.

Brooks, Albert, 1947-

Hunter, Holly, 1958-

Prosky, Robert, 1930-2008.

Chiles, Lois, 1947-

Cusack, Joan, 1962-

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.

Gracie Films.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.

Special features: Disc 1. New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Commentary with James L. Brooks and Richard Marks; Original theatrical trailer. Disc 2. "James L. Brooks-a singular voice" documentary on Brooks' career in television and film; Alternate ending and deleted scenes (with commentary by Brooks); "Susan Zirinsky" interview featurette; "Featurette" on-set footage and interviews. Booklet: "LInes and deadlines" essay by Carrie Rickey.

Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus ; editor, Richard Marks ; music, Bill Conti ; costume designer, Molly Maginnis ; production designer, Charles Rosen.

William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 surround.

In English with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.

ISBN:

9786313941940

00715515066716

9781604653700

1604653701

Publisher Number:

CC1968D

Other Number:

694630186

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

331746

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Broadcas

Medium:

[videorecording]