Quadrophenia [DVD]

Title:

Quadrophenia [DVD]

JLCTITLE245:

[DVD] / The Who Films present ; a Curbishley-Baird production ; screenplay by Dave Humphries, Martin Stellman, Franc Roddam ; producers, Roy Baird, Bill Curbishley ; director, Franc Roddam.

Uniform Title:

Quadrophenia (Motion picture)

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

Publication Information:

[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2012]

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

ISBN:

9781604656107

Series:

Criterion collection ; 624

General Note:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Disc 1, special features: New, restored digital transfer of the uncut version, supervised by cinematographer Brian Tufano, with the original 2.0 stereo soundtrack as well as an all-new 5.1 surround mix, supervised by the Who; new audio commentary featuring director Franc Roddam and Tufano; trailers.

Disc 2, special features: New interview with Bill Curbishley, the film's coproducer and the Who's co-manager; new interview with the Who's sound engineer, Bob Pridden, featuring a discussion of the new mix as well as a restoration demonstration; segment on the film from a 1979 episode of the BBC series Talking Pictures, featuring interviews and on-set footage; segment from a 1964 episode of the French news program Sept jours du monde, about mods and rockers; Seize millions de jeunes: "Mods", a 1965 episode of the French youth-culture program, featuring early footage of the Who.

"Westchester Films Inc."--Container.

Abstract:

London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division.

Subject Term:

Mod culture (Subculture) -- Drama.

Youth and violence -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Nineteen sixties -- Drama.

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