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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #1176
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Based on the novel by Ann Beattie
The trailblazing Joan Micklin Silver one of only five women to direct a film for a Hollywood studio in the 1970s digs fearlessly into the psychology of a thorny relationship in this anti-romantic comedy, based on Ann Beattie's best-selling novel, about lovelorn civil servant Charles and his married-but-separated coworker Laura. Months after their affair has ended, Charles is haunted by memories as he desperately attempts to rekindle a love that perhaps never was. Switching deftly between past and present, Micklin Silver guides this piercing deconstruction of male wish-fulfillment fantasy beyond standard movie-romance tropes into something more complicated and cuttingly truthful
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979
Wide screen
Special features: Joan Micklin Silver on Chilly Scenes of Winter; Joan Micklin Silver: encounters with the New York director; Producing Chilly Scenes of Winter; Original ending; theatrical trailer; booklet containing an essay by scholar Shonni Enelow
Cinematographer, Bobby Byrne ; editor, Cynthia Scheider ; music, Ken Lauber
John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame
Rating: PG
Blu-ray, region ; wide screen 1.85:1 aspect ratio; monaural; requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)