Five easy pieces /
Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
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Burbank, CA :
Criterion Collection,
[2010]
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| Edition: | Special ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
546. |
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| Summary: | Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of romantic or familial responsibility, who returns to his childhood home to see his ailing, estranged father, blue-collar girlfriend (Karen Black) in tow. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Issued as part of a 9-DVD boxed set with: Head; Easy rider (2 discs: feature film and supplemental material); Drive, he said; A safe place; The last picture show (2 discs: feature film and supplemental material); The king of Marvin Gardens. DVD special edition features include: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography László Kovács; audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson; "Soul searching in "Five easy pieces", a 2009 video piece with Bob Rafelson; "BBStory" a 2009 documentary about the BBS era, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black and Ellen Burstyn and directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom, among others; audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Refalson." Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (111 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.) |
| Format: | DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1, mono. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs ; editors, Christopher Holmes, Gerald Shepard ; songs, Tammy Wynette. |
| ISBN: | 9781604653649 1604653647 9781604653618 (set) 1604653612 (set) |