UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16324509
Format:
1 BD (107 Min.)
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Monaural
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1 Blatt
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1.66:1 aspect ratio
Edition:
Special edition, restored
ISBN:
9781681433417
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [BD] 890
Uniform Title:
Meantime
Content:
"A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s Meantime is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a priggish aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role). Informed by Leigh’s now trademark improvisational process and propelled by the lurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, Meantime is an unrelenting, often blisteringly funny look at life on the dole." (Criterion)
Content:
Disc Features DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION: New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael Interview from 2007 with actor Tim Roth PLUS: An essay by film scholar Sean O’Sullivan
Note:
Ländercode: A
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Orig.: Großbritannien, 1984
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Mike Leigh ; Roger Pratt Kamera ; Gary Oldman Schauspieler/in ; Alfred Molina Schauspieler/in ; Tim Roth Schauspieler/in ; Andrew Dickson Komponist/in Meantime
Language:
English
Author information:
Leigh, Mike
Author information:
Oldman, Gary
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