All-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-[Blu-ray]

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All the beauty and the bloodshed [Blu-ray]

By Poitras, Laura, film director, film producer.
Gertler, Howard, film producer.

Genre Documentary films.

Published [2024] by The Criterion Collection, [United States]

UPC 715515293518

Bib Id 1259957

Description 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras's career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival. Made in collaboration with renowned artist Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed entwines the mission of PAIN an advocacy group she founded to raise awareness about the billionaire Sackler family's integral role in the ongoing crisis of opioid overdoses with an intimate journey through Goldin's life, from her rebellious adolescence and immersion in New York City's thriving underground arts scene to her personal experiences of addiction and the AIDS epidemic. Through it all, her indelible photographs and candid reflections on memory and trauma reveal her unyielding solidarity with marginalized communities that refuse to remain silent. ...
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Leader

cgm a22 7a 4500

ISBN

9798886071184 : $30.00

UPC

715515293518

Publisher Number

CC3533BD

Language

eng

Call #

Blu-ray A

Title

All the beauty and the bloodshed [Blu-ray]

Publication Information

[2024] by The Criterion Collection, [United States] :

Description

1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Form of Work

Documentary films

Note

Title from sell sheet.

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2022.

Wide screen.

Special features: new high-definition digital master, approved by director Laura Poitras and artist Nan Goldin, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; a new interview with Poitras; two conversations from the 2022 New York Film Festival, one featuring Poitras, Goldin, coproducer and PAIN activist Megan Kapler, PAIN activist Harry Cullen, and lawyer and PAIN member Mike Quinn discussing the making of the film, and the other featuring Goldin on art and activism; trailer; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing and English descriptive audio; PLUS: an essay by author and activist Sarah Schulman.

Creation/Production Credits

Edited by Amy Foote, Joe Bini, Brian S. Kates ; music by Soundwalk Collective.

Performers

Nan Goldin.

Summary

System Details

Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.78:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player.

Language Note

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Subject

Photographers--United States--Biography.

Women political activists--United States--Biography.

Oxycodone abuse.

Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices.

Genre/Form

Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Biographical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities

Added Author

Poitras, Laura, film director, film producer.

Gertler, Howard, film producer.

Lyons, John (John S.), film producer.

Goldin, Nan, 1953- film producer, on-screen participant.

Golijov, Yoni, film producer.

Foote, Amy, editor of moving image work.

Bini, Joe, editor of moving image work.

Kates, Brian A., 1972- editor of moving image work.

Schulman, Sarah, 1958- writer of accompanying material.

Soundwalk Collective (Musical group), composer (expression)

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.