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Vanya.On.42nd.Street.1994.Criterion.NTSC.DVDR-DVDR

THEATRE DATE....: 10/19/1994 (USA)
RELEASE DATE....: 3/2/2012
STORE DATE......: 12/28/2012
GENRE...........: Comedy/Drama/Romance
RATiNG..........: 7.2/10 (2,223 votes)
NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???

RUNTiME.........: 120 Minutes
ViDEO BiTRATE...: 4178 kBit/sec 6-pass CCE
AUDiO BiTRATE...: 384 kBit/s AC3 DD 1.0 at 48KHZ, EN
ASPECT RATiO....: 16:9
ARCHiVES........: dvdr-vanya.rar  *95x50MB*
DVD SiZE........: *4.37 GB* *4,474 MB* *4,581,096 KB*
SUBTiTLES.......: EN

In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began
rehearsing a new translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by David Mamet, not with any specific performance
in mind but as a way of exploring the beauty and precise construction of Chekhov's play. Louis Malle, a friend
of Gregory's, became interested in the project and spent two weeks filming Gregory's actors as they performed
Uncle Vanya without an audience in a run-down theater near New York's Times Square. In these performances, the
line between theater and real life is blurred as conversations between actors -- juggling take-out cups of
coffee and wearing street clothes -- slowly grow into a superb performance of Chekhov's classic, with Wallace
Shawn as Vanya, Julianne Moore as Yelena, Brooke Smith as Sonya, and Larry Pine as Dr. Astrov. With a certain
sad irony, this marvelously realized adaptation of a play about people wondering what they've done with their
lives proved to be Louis Malle's final film; he died of cancer in 1995.

Director         ...   Louis Malle

Wallace Shawn         ...         Vanya
Julianne Moore         ...         Yelena
Larry Pine         ...         Dr. Astrov
Brooke Smith         ...         Sonya
Lynn Cohen         ...         Maman
Phoebe Brand         ...         Nanny

The trailer was removed. The other extra is:

* LIKE LIFE: THE MAKING OF VANYA ON 42ND STREET (35:40@1446)

And before you nukers get all excited about the extra being under the minimum bitrate, why not have
a look at it first and then you might come to understand why 2500 is an arbitrary and virtually
meaningless number. It may not be the quality of the film (purposely done), but looks just fine.
Talking heads don't need the same bitrates as do action scenes.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111590/
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