UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15517261
Format:
1 DVD-Video (ca. 112 + ca. 76 Bonus Min.)
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DD/2.0
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16:9 anamorphic widescreen
Series Statement:
The American film theatre collection : [DVD-Video]
Content:
Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story, Silver Streak), working from screenwriter Edward Anhalt's (Becket) adaptation, transforms actor-playwright Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth into a film the Los Angeles Times dubbed, "daring, outrageous, utterly provocative, endlessly ambiguous and strikingly effective." Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Maximilian Schell) benvolently rules his financial empire from a penthouse apartment overlooking Manhattan. Seemingly at the edge of sanity, Goldman holds forth on everyting from Papal edicts to ex-wives, from baseball to his family's massacre in a Nazi concentration camp. When Goldman remarks on a blue Mercedes continuously parked outside his building, Goldman's captive audience of assistant (Lawrence Pressman) and chauffeur (Henry Brown) dismiss their boss' anxiety as encroaching paranoia. But each of Goldman's passionate, seemingly capricious ravings are transformed into a shocking, inadvertent deposition when Israeli agents capture Goldman and put him on trial as Adolph Dorf, the commandant of the concentration camp where Goldman's family was supposedly exterminated. In a trial scene of unrelenting intensity, Academy Award© winner Schell (Judgement at Nuremberg) crafts what the Detroit Free Press called "a white-hot lead performance," mutating from eccentric Goldman to sociopath Dorf and beyond. The riddle of Dorf's true identity becomes wrapped in an enigma of cunning self-treachery and single-minded obsession. Veteran cinematographer Sam Leavitt enables Hiller to coax a vividly personal and electrifying intelligent dual portrait out of Schell. The Man in the Glass Booth is a timeless drama of surprising intimacy and indefatigable courage, "possessing," declared the Los Angeles Times, "a remarkably resilient sense of lightness for all the profound questions it ponders." (from the container)
Content:
Extras: An interview with director Arthur Hiller. Theatrical trailer. "Robert Shaw and The Man in the Glass Booth" - an essay by Michael Feingold, Chief Theater Critic, The Village Voice. The AFT Cinebill for The Man in the Glass Booth Stills Gallery. An interview with Edie Landau - executive in charge, The American Film Theatre. Ely Landau: In Front of the Camera - AFT promotional reel, 1974. The American Film Theater trailer gallery - includes a complete list of the AFT films. The American Film Theatre scrapbook.
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Orig.: USA, 1975
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Robert Shaw and the man in the glass booth / Michael Feingold. Filmed message from producer Ely Landau u.a.
Language:
English
Keywords:
American Film Theatre
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Interview
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DVD-Video
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The man in the glass booth
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Inszenierung
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American Film Theatre
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Interview
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DVD-Video
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Interview
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DVD-Video
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Interview
Author information:
Schell, Maximilian
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