Fantastic Mr. Fox /
The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farme...
| Uniform Title: | Fantastic Mr. Fox (Motion picture) |
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
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[Irvington, NY] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2019]
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| Edition: | DVD edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
700. |
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| Summary: | The story of a clever, quick, nimble, and exceptionally well-dressed wild animal. A compulsive chicken thief turned newspaper reporter, Mr. Fox settles down with his family at a new foxhole in a beautiful tree directly adjacent to three enormous poultry farms owned by three ferociously vicious farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Mr. Fox simply cannot resist. Based on the beloved, best selling book by Roald Dahl. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the book by Roald Dahl. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Accompanying booklet includes essay titled "Vulpine nature" by Erica Wagner. Director approved two-DVD special edition features: Audio commentary featuring Wes Anderson; storyboard animatic for the entire film; footage of the actors voicing their characters, puppet construction, stop-motion setups, and the recording of the score; interviews with cast and crew; puppet animation tests; photo gallery of puppets, props, and sets; animated awards acceptance speeches; audio recording of author Roald Dahl reading the book on which the film is based; "Fantastic Mr. Dahl," an hour-long 2005 documentary about the author; gallery of Dahl's original manuscripts; discussion and analysis of the film; stop-motion Sony robot commercial by Anderson |
| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (unpaged : color illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Format: | DVD: NTSC, region 1, 1.85:1 aspect ratio, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. |
| Audience: | OFRB rating: PG. |
| Production Credits: | Animation director, Mark Gustafson ; "Petey's Song" performed by Jarvis Cocker ; director of photography, Tristan Oliver ; production designer, Nelson Lowry ; music composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat ; supervising editor, Andrew Weisblum ; puppets fabricated by Mackinnon and Saunders. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435466 1681435462 |