Ace in the hole (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
Ace in the hole (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
DVD
DVD
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Previous price EUR 16.99, reduced by 5%
Current price: EUR 15.99
- Country of origin:
- USA, 1951
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
Eine Lieferung an Minderjährige ist nicht möglich.
Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - Item number:
- 4120972
- UPC/EAN:
- 5060000701371
- Release date:
- 5.5.2014
- Series:
- Masters of Cinema
- Genre:
- Thriller
- Playing time ca.:
- 111 Min.
- Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Actor:
- Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict
- German title:
- Reporter des Satans
- Language:
- Englisch
- Picture:
- 4:3
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
Since re-emerging in the 2000s, Billy Wilder’s superb Ace in the Hole, so ahead of its time in the 1950s with its acidic and unflinching examination of journalistic ethics and human morality, has taken its place alongside Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and The Apartment as among the director’s greatest works.
In one of the most powerhouse performances in American screen-acting, the great Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico (nearly sixty years later, the setting for Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad). When Tatum begins to influence the story’s outcome, a descent begins that finds more than one man caught between a rock and a hard place.
An electric narrative that stands as one of Wilder’s tautest and most (melo)dramatic plots (penned with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman), Ace in the Hole plays today as both a prescient examination of the modern media landscape, and the public appetite for the disastrous news-story that leads to toxic wish-fulfillment. – “I can handle big news and little news. And if there’s no news, I’ll go out and bite a dog.” – The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present our third major Billy Wilder release with this stunning Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition of Ace in the Hole.
Gorgeous 1080p transfer on the Blu-ray, and progressive encode on the DVD
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
New and exclusive video interview with film scholar Neil Sinyard
Portrait of a “60% Perfect” Man: Billy Wilder, a film by Annie Tresgot and Michel Ciment (direction: Annie Tresgot – interview: Michel Ciment), a 59-minute 1980 documentary discussion with Billy Wilder
Original theatrical trailer
32-PAGE FULL-COLOUR BOOKLET featuring a new and exclusive essay on the film by critic Emmanuel Burdeau, and rare archival imagery
In one of the most powerhouse performances in American screen-acting, the great Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico (nearly sixty years later, the setting for Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad). When Tatum begins to influence the story’s outcome, a descent begins that finds more than one man caught between a rock and a hard place.
An electric narrative that stands as one of Wilder’s tautest and most (melo)dramatic plots (penned with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman), Ace in the Hole plays today as both a prescient examination of the modern media landscape, and the public appetite for the disastrous news-story that leads to toxic wish-fulfillment. – “I can handle big news and little news. And if there’s no news, I’ll go out and bite a dog.” – The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present our third major Billy Wilder release with this stunning Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition of Ace in the Hole.
Gorgeous 1080p transfer on the Blu-ray, and progressive encode on the DVD
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
New and exclusive video interview with film scholar Neil Sinyard
Portrait of a “60% Perfect” Man: Billy Wilder, a film by Annie Tresgot and Michel Ciment (direction: Annie Tresgot – interview: Michel Ciment), a 59-minute 1980 documentary discussion with Billy Wilder
Original theatrical trailer
32-PAGE FULL-COLOUR BOOKLET featuring a new and exclusive essay on the film by critic Emmanuel Burdeau, and rare archival imagery
Reviews
„Packendes, exzellent inszeniertes und gespieltes Drama, das – mit einem gewissen Zynismus – die Praktiken der Boulevardpresse und die menschliche Habgier kritisch bloßstellt. Einer der bittersten Filme Billy Wilders.“ (Lexikon des internationalen Films)„Böse rechnet Billy Wilder mit der ‚Yellow Press‘ und der Sensationsgier der Leute ab. Presse und Zuschauern gefiel der vorgehaltene Spiegel erwartungsgemäß nicht. Dabei ist der Film virtuos gedreht und gespielt.“ (Cinema)
„Ein packendes, exzellent inszeniertes und gespieltes Drama, das – mit einem gewissen Zynismus – die Praktiken der Boulevardpresse bloßstellt. Eine brillante Breitseite auf die Sensationslüsternheit des Publikums, sicher einer der bittersten Filme Billy Wilders, der jedoch kommerziell floppte.“ (prisma.de)
„In Reporter des Satans schildert Billy Wilder scharfsinnig und mit pointierter Kritik das menschliche Fehlverhalten eines Mannes, der für seinen beruflichen Aufstieg über Leichen geht. Aber auch die sensationssüchtige und menschenverachtende Haltung einer Gesellschaft, die gierig konsumiert, was ihr von den Medien vorgesetzt wird, attackiert Wilder aufs schärfste. ‚Reporter des Satans‘ ist Billy Wilders bitterster Film seiner großartigen Karriere.“ (3Sat)
Ace in the hole (Blu-ray & DVD) (UK Import)
Previous price EUR 16.99, reduced by 5%
Current price: EUR 15.99
