Matewan. DVD/Widescreen
Format:
DVD
System details note
DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio), Dolby monaural.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (1 page : color illustrations ; folded to 17 cm.)
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; Widesreen.
Production / Publication Information
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]
Summary
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent provocations. With a crackerjack ensemble cast--including James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, and Will Oldham--and Oscar-nominated cinematography by Haskell Wexler, Matewan taps into a rich vein of Americana with painstaking attention to local texture, issuing an impassioned cry for justice that still resounds today"--Container.
Call Number
DVD MAT DRAMA
Publication Date
2019, 1987
Language
English
ISBN
9781681436531
UPC
715515236119
Matewan. Fullscreen
Format:
DVD
System details note
DVD, full screen presentation; mono audio.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 chapter index (1 sheet ; 19 cm.)
Production / Publication Information
Santa Monica, Calif. : Artisan Home Entertainment, [1999]
Summary
A labor leader seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powderkeg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920's.
Call Number
DVD MATEWAN / FEATURE
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
ISBN
9781574927832
UPC
707729100461
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