My brilliant career /
"For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in...
| Uniform Title: | My brilliant career (Motion picture) |
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2019]
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| Edition: | Director-approved DVD special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
973. |
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| Summary: | "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions receive little encouragement, and craves independence over all else. When a handsome landowner (Sam Neill), disarmed by her unruly charms, begins to court her, Sybylla must decide whether she can reconcile the prospect of marriage with the illustrious life's work she imagines for herself. Suffused with generous humor and a youthful appetite for experience, My Brilliant Career is a luminous portrait of an ardently free spirit"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the novel by Miles Franklin. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Wide screen (1.85:1). Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Gilliam Armstrong; Audio commentary from 2009 featuring Armstrong; New interview with Armstrong; Interview from 1980 with actor Judy Davis; New interview with production designer Luciana Arrighi; One Hundred a Day (1973), a student short film by Armstrong; Trailer; On insert, an essay by critic Carrie Rickey. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Format: | DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono. |
| Audience: | MPAA rating: G. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, Don McAlpine ; editor, Nicholas Beauman ; music director, Nathan Waks. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435787 1681435780 |