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Additional authors

1. Altman, Robert, 1925-2006
2. Altman, Robert, 1925-2006.
3. Campbell, Neve, 1973-
4. Turner, Barbara.
5. Parks, Van Dyke.
6. Baugh, Gary.
7. Kaufmann, Susan.
8. Peroni, Geraldine.
9. Dunn, Andrew.
10. McDowell, Malcolm, 1943-
11. Franco, James, 1978-
12. Robertson, Davis C.
13. Lubovitch, Lar, 1943-
14. Desrosiers, Robert
15. Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.
16. Kronos Quartet.
17. Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
18. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
19. Killer Films.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Feature film intended as a realistic look at an American ballet company. The story centers on the professional and personal life of Ry, a rising young ballet dancer. The film contains numerous performance and rehearsal excerpts from ballets in the repertory of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, spotlighting the company's acquisition of Robert Desrosiers' ballet The blue snake, first produced by the National Ballet of Canada in 1985. Desrosiers and American choreographer Lar Lubovitch, denoted only as "the choreographers," essentially play themselves in the film.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of Harriet Ross, Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.

Uniform title

1. Tensile involvement (Choreographic work : Nikolais)
2. Light rain (Choreographic work : Arpino)
3. Suite Saint-Saens (Choreographic work : Arpino)
4. My funny Valentine (Choreographic work : Lubovitch)
5. Trinity (Choreographic work : Arpino)
6. Creative force (Choreographic work : Dean)
7. Vivandière: Pas de six (Choreographic work : Saint-Léon)
8. Strange prisoners (Choreographic work : Robertson)
9. White widow (Choreographic work : Pendleton and Quinn)
10. Blue snake (Choreographic work : Desrosiers)

Subject

1. Dance companies > Drama
2. Features
3. Video
4. Dance
5. Dancers > Drama

Genre/Form

1. Dance.
2. Features.
3. Video.

Contents

1. Feature presentation (ca. 112 min.).
2. Special features: Commentary by Robert Altman and Neve Campbell -- Making of featurette (ca. 7 min.) / includes interviews with Campbell, Altman, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, Barbara Turner, and Andrew Dunn -- The passion of dance (ca. 4 min.) / includes interviews with Campbell, McDowell, Turner, and Altman -- Extended dance sequence: "Studio A/Show off" -- [Option to] Play all dance sequences from film -- Previews [for The company and other films].

Call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-150

Note

1. Aspect ratio 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen.
2. Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1.

Credits (note)

1. Original score, Van Dyke Parks ; costumes, Susan Kaufmann ; production design, Gary Baugh ; editing, Geraldine Peroni ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; executive producers, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, John Wells, Roland Pellegrino, Dieter Meyer ; story, Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner ; screenplay, Barbara Turner. Artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Gerald Arpino.
2. Credits for dance excerpts: Tensile involvement [seen under opening credits] / chor., mus., sets, cos., lighting, Alwin Nikolais -- Light rain / chor., Gerald Arpino; mus., Doug Adams and Russ Gauthier; cos., A. Christina Giannini; lighting, Kevin Dreyer after Thomas Skelton -- Suite Saint-Saëns / chor., Arpino; mus., Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. by Elliot Kaplan; cos., Giannini; lighting, Dreyer after Skelton -- My funny Valentine / chor., Lar Lubovitch; mus., Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, arr. by Marvin Laird; lighting, Dreyer -- Trinity / chor., Arpino; mus., Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge; lighting, Dreyer -- Creative force / chor., Laura Dean; mus., John Zeretzke; cos., Dean and Rebecca Strouse; lighting, Dreyer -- La vivandière pas de six / chor., Arthur Saint-Léon, transcribed by Ann Hutchinson Guest; mus., Cesare Pugni and Jean-Baptiste Nadaud; lighting, Dreyer -- Strange prisoners / chor., Davis Robertson; mus., Mark O'Connor and J.S. Bach; set, Keith Prisco; cos., Strouse; lighting, Dreyer and Prisco -- White widow / chor., Moses Pendleton and Cynthia Quinn of Momix; mus., Angelo Badalamenti and David K. Lynch; cos., Quinn; lighting, Dreyer -- The blue snake / chor., Robert Desrosiers; mus., Van Dyke Parks; sets and cos., Jerrard Smith; lighting, Dreyer.

Performer (note)

1. Neve Campell (Ry); Malcolm McDowell (Alberto Antonelli); James Franco (Josh); Barbara Robertson (Harriet); William Dick (Edouard); Susie Cusack (Susie); Marilyn Dodds Frank (Ry's mother); John Lordan (Ry's father); Mariann Mayberry (stepmother); Roderick Peeples (stepfather); Yasen Peyankov (Justin's mentor); the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago: Davis C. Robertson (Alec); Deborah Dawn (Deborah); John Gluckman (John); David Gombert (Justin); Suzanne L. Prisco (Suzanne); Emily Patterson (Noel); Maia Wilkins (Maia); Sam Franke (Franklin); Trinity Hamilton (Trinity); Julianne Kepley (Julianne); Valerie Robin (Veronica); Deanne Brown (Dana); Michael Smith (Michael); Matthew Roy Prescott (Colton); Lar Lubovitch and Robert Desrosiers (the choreographers); Charthel Arthur and Cameron Basden (the ballet mistresses); Mark Goldweber, Pierre Lockett, Adam Sklute (the ballet masters); Paul Lewis (company pianist); Larry Glazer (Grant Park cellist); Mark Hummel (Grant Park pianist); others.

Event (note)

1. Filmed on location in Chicago.

System details (note)

1. DVD.

Language (note)

1. Optional subtitles in French.

Title

1. The company [videorecording] / Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment ; Sony Pictures Classics presents, in association with CP Medien and Capitol Films, a Killer Films/John Wells production, in association with First Snow Productions and Sandcastle 5 Productions ; directed by Robert Altman ; produced by David Levy, Joshua Astrachan, Neve Campbell, Robert Altman, Christine Vachon, and Pamela Koffler.

Imprint

1. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2003.

System details

1. DVD.

Credits

1. Original score, Van Dyke Parks ; costumes, Susan Kaufmann ; production design, Gary Baugh ; editing, Geraldine Peroni ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; executive producers, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, John Wells, Roland Pellegrino, Dieter Meyer ; story, Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner ; screenplay, Barbara Turner. Artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Gerald Arpino.
2. Credits for dance excerpts: Tensile involvement [seen under opening credits] / chor., mus., sets, cos., lighting, Alwin Nikolais -- Light rain / chor., Gerald Arpino; mus., Doug Adams and Russ Gauthier; cos., A. Christina Giannini; lighting, Kevin Dreyer after Thomas Skelton -- Suite Saint-Saëns / chor., Arpino; mus., Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. by Elliot Kaplan; cos., Giannini; lighting, Dreyer after Skelton -- My funny Valentine / chor., Lar Lubovitch; mus., Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, arr. by Marvin Laird; lighting, Dreyer -- Trinity / chor., Arpino; mus., Alan Raph and Lee Holdridge; lighting, Dreyer -- Creative force / chor., Laura Dean; mus., John Zeretzke; cos., Dean and Rebecca Strouse; lighting, Dreyer -- La vivandière pas de six / chor., Arthur Saint-Léon, transcribed by Ann Hutchinson Guest; mus., Cesare Pugni and Jean-Baptiste Nadaud; lighting, Dreyer -- Strange prisoners / chor., Davis Robertson; mus., Mark O'Connor and J.S. Bach; set, Keith Prisco; cos., Strouse; lighting, Dreyer and Prisco -- White widow / chor., Moses Pendleton and Cynthia Quinn of Momix; mus., Angelo Badalamenti and David K. Lynch; cos., Quinn; lighting, Dreyer -- The blue snake / chor., Robert Desrosiers; mus., Van Dyke Parks; sets and cos., Jerrard Smith; lighting, Dreyer.

Cast

1. Neve Campell (Ry); Malcolm McDowell (Alberto Antonelli); James Franco (Josh); Barbara Robertson (Harriet); William Dick (Edouard); Susie Cusack (Susie); Marilyn Dodds Frank (Ry's mother); John Lordan (Ry's father); Mariann Mayberry (stepmother); Roderick Peeples (stepfather); Yasen Peyankov (Justin's mentor); the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago: Davis C. Robertson (Alec); Deborah Dawn (Deborah); John Gluckman (John); David Gombert (Justin); Suzanne L. Prisco (Suzanne); Emily Patterson (Noel); Maia Wilkins (Maia); Sam Franke (Franklin); Trinity Hamilton (Trinity); Julianne Kepley (Julianne); Valerie Robin (Veronica); Deanne Brown (Dana); Michael Smith (Michael); Matthew Roy Prescott (Colton); Lar Lubovitch and Robert Desrosiers (the choreographers); Charthel Arthur and Cameron Basden (the ballet mistresses); Mark Goldweber, Pierre Lockett, Adam Sklute (the ballet masters); Paul Lewis (company pianist); Larry Glazer (Grant Park cellist); Mark Hummel (Grant Park pianist); others.

Performer

1. Original score performed by the Kronos Quartet: David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), Jennifer Culp (cello), with Michael Burr (bass).

Event

1. Filmed on location in Chicago.

Language

1. Optional subtitles in French.

Added author

1. Altman, Robert, 1925-2006, film producer.
2. Altman, Robert, 1925-2006, film director.
3. Altman, Robert, 1925-2006. Commentator
4. Altman, Robert, 1925-2006, interviewee.
5. Campbell, Neve, 1973- Producer. Author. act, dancer. Commentator. Interviewee
6. Turner, Barbara. Screenwriter. Interviewee
7. Parks, Van Dyke. Composer
8. Baugh, Gary. Designer
9. Kaufmann, Susan. Costume designer
10. Peroni, Geraldine. Film editor
11. Dunn, Andrew. Cinematographer. Interviewee
12. McDowell, Malcolm, 1943- Actor. Interviewee
13. Franco, James, 1978- Actor. Interviewee
14. Robertson, Davis C., choreographer. act, dancer.
15. Lubovitch, Lar, 1943- choreographer.
16. Lubovitch, Lar, 1943- actor.
17. Desrosiers, Robert, choreographer. Actor
18. Joffrey Ballet of Chicago.
19. Kronos Quartet.
20. Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
21. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
22. Killer Films.

Added title

1. Tensile involvement (Choreographic work : Nikolais)
2. Light rain (Choreographic work : Arpino)
3. Suite Saint-Saens (Choreographic work : Arpino)
4. My funny Valentine (Choreographic work : Lubovitch)
5. Trinity (Choreographic work : Arpino)
6. Creative force (Choreographic work : Dean)
7. Vivandière: Pas de six (Choreographic work : Saint-Léon)
8. Strange prisoners (Choreographic work : Robertson)
9. White widow (Choreographic work : Pendleton and Quinn)
10. Blue snake (Choreographic work : Desrosiers)

ISBN

1. 1404935975

Research call number

1. *MGZIDVD 5-150