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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603]
Brief Encounter / In Which We Serve / This Happy Breed (1944) / Blithe Spirit
4xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 407 mins | Total: 30,7 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English SDH
Genre: Romance, Drama, War, Fantasy

In the 1940s, the wit of playwright Noël Coward and the craft of filmmaker David Lean melded harmoniously in one of cinema’s greatest writer-director collaborations. With the wartime military drama sensation In Which We Serve, Coward and Lean (along with producing partners Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan) embarked on a series of literate, socially engaged, and enormously entertaining pictures that ranged from domestic epic (This Happy Breed) to whimsical comedy (Blithe Spirit) to poignant romance (Brief Encounter). These films created a lasting testament to Coward’s artistic legacy and introduced Lean’s visionary talents to the world.

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One was an accomplished film editor looking to move up the cinema ladder, the other a successful playwright ready to embrace motion pictures in full. David Lean, the man who would go on to make Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago, two of the biggest big-screen epics of all time, began his career on a relatively moderate scale by comparison, but teaming with a writer as popular as Noël Coward (A Design for Living) was somewhat epic unto itself. The pair made four films between 1942 and 1945, showing increasing progress across the quartet and culminating in a genuine masterpiece of romantic cinema. Criterion finally collects all of these movies under one banner, David Lean Directs Noël Coward, boasting new high-definition transfers and a healthy selection of bonus materials.
Excerpt from DVDtalk's Review

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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

Brief Encounter (1945) [The Criterion Collection #76]
86 minutes | Black and White | 1.37:1 | English | 7,68 Gb
Romance, Drama

After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) enter into a muted but passionate, ultimately doomed, love affair. With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances (Johnson was nominated for an Oscar for her role), David Lean’s film of Noël Coward’s play Still Life deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance, and has influenced many a cinematic brief encounter since its release.

IMDB

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]
David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]


Special Features:
- Audio commentary by film expert Bruce Eder
- Interview with Barry Day
- The 2000 documentary A Profile of "Brief Encounter"
- A 1971 television program, David Lean: A Self Portrait
- The film's trailer
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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

In Which We Serve (1942) [The Criterion Collection #604]
114 minutes | Black and White | 1.37:1 | English | 7,58 Gb
Drama, War

In the midst of World War II, the renowned playwright Noël Coward engaged a young film editor named David Lean to help him realize his vision for an action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors (roles that would be filled by Coward himself, Bernard Miles, and John Mills, among others) fighting the Germans in the Mediterranean. Coward and Lean ended up codirecting the large-scale project—an impressive undertaking, especially considering that neither of them had directed for the big screen before (this would be Coward’s only such credit). Cutting between a major naval battle and flashbacks to the men’s lives before they left home, In Which We Serve (an Oscar nominee for best picture) was a major breakthrough for both filmmakers and a sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda.

IMDB

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]
David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]


Special Features:
- An interview with Noël Coward scholar Barry Day
- The 2000 making-of A Profile of "In Which We Serve"
- A 1969 audio recording of Coward talking to Richard Attenborough
- The film's trailer
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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

This Happy Breed (1944) [The Criterion Collection #605]
111 minutes | Color | 1.37:1 | English | 7,71 Gb
Comedy, Drama

David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family in the London suburbs over the course of two decades. Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. With its mix of politics and melodrama, This Happy Breed is a quintessential British domestic drama, featuring subtly expressive Technicolor cinematography by Ronald Neame and a remarkable supporting cast including John Mills, Stanley Holloway, and Kay Walsh.

IMDB

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]
David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]


Special Features:
- Interview with Barry Day
- 2010 interview with cinematographer and screenwriter Ronald Neame
- The film's trailer
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David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]

Blithe Spirit (1945) [The Criterion Collection #606]
96 minutes | Color | 1.37:1 | English | 7,73 Gb
Comedy, Fantasy

Blithe Spirit, David Lean’s delightful film version of Noël Coward’s theater sensation (onstage, it broke London box-office records before hitting Broadway), stars Rex Harrison as a novelist who cheekily invites a medium (Margaret Rutherford) to his house to conduct a séance, hoping the experience will inspire a book he’s working on. Things go decidedly not as planned when she summons the spirit of his dead first wife (Kay Hammond), a severe inconvenience for his current one (Constance Cummings). Employing Oscar-winning special effects to spruce up Coward’s theatrical farce, Blithe Spirit is a sprightly supernatural comedy with winning performances.

IMDB

David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]
David Lean Directs Noël Coward [The Criterion Collection #603] [ReUp]


Special Features:
- Interview with Barry Day
- A 1992 Southbank Show about the life of Noël Coward
- The film's trailer
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David Lean Directs Noël Coward is an important boxed set, restoring significant films from early in a great director's career and highlighting the work of one of the early 20th Century's most important playwrights. You've got a war picture, a family drama, a light romantic comedy, and a deeply felt, tragic love story–pretty much the whole gamut. While some films have aged better than others, all of them are solid, and This Happy Breed and Brief Encounter are worth the price of admission. The presentation is also top notch, including excellent packaging and impressive technical specs. There is no downside to this one; David Lean Directs Noël Coward is an essential purchase for all cinema fans.
Excerpt from DVDtalk's Review
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