Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | Deitch, Donna, 1945-
Cooper, Natalie,
Charbonneau, Patricia,
Shaver, Helen (Helen Jane), 1951-
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Rule, Jane. Desert of the heart.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Samuel Goldwyn Co., production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9781681433752
1681433753
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| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
stamping
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
optical
stereo
5.1 Dolby Digital
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| Video characteristics: | NTSC
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
DVD video
region 1
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| Notes: | Based on the novel, Desert of the heart' by Jane Rule.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit, audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; newconversationo between Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style; new interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau; excerpt from Fiction and truths: a film about Jane Rule, a 1995 documentary about the author of Desert of the heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based; an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich.
Director of photography, Robert Elswit ; editor, Robert Estrin ; music,
Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwenn Wells, Dean Butler, James Staley, Katie Labourdette.
DVD, NTSC, region 1.
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| Summary: | It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.
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| Target Audience: | MPAA rating: R.
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| Standard no.: | 715515206013
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| Publisher's no.: | CC2825DDVD The Criterion Collection
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