The Actuality Dramas of Allan King Warrendale A Married Couple Come on Children Dying at Grace Memory for Max Claire Ida and Company Eclipse Series 24 DVD with Alan Dunikowsky, Antoinette Edwards, Billy Edwards (Unrated)

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The Actuality Dramas of Allan King
Warrendale / A Married Couple / Come on Children / Dying at Grace / Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
Actors: Alan Dunikowsky, Antoinette Edwards, Billy Edwards, Claire Mandell, Dr. Martin Fischer
Director: Alan King

UR 2010 9hr 7min

Canadian director Allan King is one of cinema?s best-kept secrets. Over the course of fifty years, King shuttled between features and shorts, big-screen cinema and episodic television, comedy and drama, fiction and nonfict... more »ion. Within this remarkably varied career, it was with his cinema-verité-style documentaries?his ?actuality dramas,? as he called them?that he left his greatest mark on film history. These startlingly intimate studies of lives in flux?emotionally troubled children, warring spouses, and the terminally ill?are riveting, at times emotionally overwhelming, and always depicted without narration or interviews. Humane, cathartic, and important, Allan King?s spontaneous portraits of the everyday demand to be seen. Films Include: Warrendale; A Married Couple; Come on Children; Dying at Grace; Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company. Warrendale: (1967 - 101 minutes ? Black/White - Monaural - 1.33:1 aspect ratio) For his enthralling first feature, Allan King brought his cameras to a home for psychologically disturbed young people. Situated inside the facility like flies on the wall, we get full access to the wide spectrum of emotions displayed by twelve fascinating children and the caregivers trying to nurture and guide them. The stunning Warrendale won the Prix d?art et d?essai at Cannes and a special documentary award from the National Society of Film Critics. A Married Couple: (1969 - 96 minutes - Color - Monaural - 1.33:1 aspect ratio) Billy and Antoinette Edwards let it all hang out for Allan King and crew in this jaw-dropping documentary of a marriage gone haywire that ?makes John Cassavetes?s Faces look like early Doris Day? (Time). Intense and hectic, frightening and funny, A Married Couple is ultimately about the eternal power struggle in romantic relationships, as well as entrenched gender roles on the cusp of change. Come on Children: (1972 - 95 minutes - Color - Monaural - 1.66:1 aspect ratio) In the early 1970s, ten teenagers (five boys and five girls) leave behind parents, school, and all other authority figures to live on a farm for ten weeks. What emerges in front of Allan King?s cameras is the fears, hopes, and alienation of a disillusioned generation. Come on Children is a swiftly paced, vivid rendering of one of the twentieth century?s most remarkable?and ultimately directionless?countercultures. Dying at Grace: (2003 - 143 minutes - Color - Monaural - 1.77:1 aspect ratio) An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King?s Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Care Center. The result is an unflinching, enormously empathetic contemplation of death, featuring a handful of the most memorable people ever captured on film. Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company: (2005 - 112 minutes - Color - Monaural - 1.78:1 aspect ratio) Allan King brings us close to the people who reside and work in a home for geriatric care in this beautifully conceived, powerful documentary. For four months, King follows the daily routines of eight patients suffering from dementia and memory loss; the result is searing, compassionate drama that can bring to the viewer a greater understanding of his or her loved ones

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Actors: Alan Dunikowsky, Antoinette Edwards, Billy Edwards, Claire Mandell, Dr. Martin Fischer
Director: Alan King
Studio: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen
DVD Release Date: 09/21/2010
Release Year: 2010
Run Time: 9hr 7min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 5
SwapaDVD Credits: 5
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 4
Edition: Box set
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Languages: English

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