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Gifted persons -- Drama.
Pianists -- Drama.
Social classes -- Drama.
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Gifted persons -- Drama.
Pianists -- Drama.
Social classes -- Drama.
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Five
easy
pieces
[videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Bob Rafelson.
Criterion Collection, 2015.
Call #:
DVD FIV Dra
Subjects
Gifted persons -- Drama.
Pianists -- Drama.
Social classes -- Drama.
Series
Criterion collection ; 546.
Video Difference legacy collection.
ISBN:
9781681430102
168143010X
0767828054
Alternate title:
5
easy
pieces
[videorecording (DVD)]
America
lost
and
found
[videorecording (DVD)] : the
BBS
story
.
Five
easy
pieces
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Edition:
DVD special ed.
Description:
1 videodisc (98 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded sheet insert.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Special features: Audio commentary by director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson ; Soul searching in "
Five
easy
pieces
," a 2009 video piece with Rafelson ; BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the legendary film company
BBS
Productions, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn, directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom and others ; documentary from 2009 about
BBS
featuring critic David Thomson and historian Douglas Brinkley ; audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson ; theatrical trailer and teasers ; PLUS: an essay entitled "The Solitude" by critic Kent Jones.
A selection of the National Film Registry, 2000.
Home use only.
English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Production:
Screenplay by Adrien Joyce ; directed by Bob Rafelson.
Performers:
Jack Nicholson with Karen Black, Suan Anspach, Billy "Green" Bush, Fannie Flagg and Sally Ann Stuthers.
Summary:
"Following Jack Nicholson's breakout supporting turn in
Easy
Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study
Five
Easy
Pieces
. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Nashville's Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures,
Five
Easy
Pieces
is a lasting example of early 1970s American alienation."--Container.
Awards:
Golden Globe Award: Best Supporting Actress, Karen Black (tied with Maureen Stapleton for Airport), 1970.
Genre:
Road films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Rafelson, Bob.
Nicholson, Jack.
Black, Karen, 1939-2013.
Bush, Billy.
Flagg, Fannie.
Struthers, Sally.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Holds:
3
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD FIV Dra
Adult Dvds-7 Days-Restricted
Item being held
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