THE THIN RED LINE(1998) - (The Criterion Collection - #536) [2 DVD9] [2010]

After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema’s finest actors—Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Woody Harrelson among them—The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of the greatest war films ever produced.





MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Terrence Malick
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 1998


Cast & Credits

Cast
1st Sgt. Edward Welsh Sean Penn
Cpl. Fife Adrien Brody
Pvt. Witt Jim Caviezel
Pvt. Bell Ben Chaplin
Capt. Charles Bosche George Clooney
Capt. John Gaff John Cusack
Sgt. Keck Woody Harrelson
Capt. James “Bugger” Staros Elias Koteas
2nd Lt. Whyte Jared Leto
Pfc. Doll Dash Mihok
Pvt. Tillis Tim Blake Nelson
Lt. Col. Gordon Tall Nick Nolte
Sgt. Storm John C. Reilly
Pvt. Mazzi Larry Romano
Sgt. McCron John Savage
Brig. Gen. Quintard John Travolta
Pvt. Charlie Dale Arie Verveen


Credits
Director Terrence Malick
Screenplay Terrence Malick
Based on the novel by James Jones
Producer Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill
Executive producer George Stevens and Jr.
Director of photography John Toll
Production designer Jack Fisk
Editing Billy Weber, Leslie Jones and Saar Klein
Casting Dianne Crittenden
Music Hans Zimmer
Costume designer Margot Wilson
Associate producer Michael Stevens
First assistant director Skip Cosper
Art direction Ian Gracie
Production manager Vicki Popplewell






DVD:
DVD RELEASE: 28 Sep 2010
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 536
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 2.35:1
COLOR
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital 5.1
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 171 minutes







EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 2 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS file
FILE SIZE: 14.21 GB (7.51 GB + 6.70 GB)
SCANS HQ PDF(800 DPI): 66.3 MB

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Disc Features

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary by Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
* Interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Thomas Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn; composer Hans Zimmer; editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein; and writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
* New interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring archival audition footage
* Fourteen minutes of outtakes from the film
* World War II newsreels from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands
* Melanesian chants
* Original theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 reprint by James Jones