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Butley (Blu-ray)

Directed by : Harold Pinter
Available Date : 08/27/2019
Release Year : 1974
Running Time : 129
UPC : 738329239084
Country : U.S.
Language: English
Subject : Performing Arts, Literature
Genre : Theatre
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On any given day Ben Butley, a self-made train wreck of an English Literature professor at a London university, can shrug off everyone and everything with equal ease. But today, the disaster of Butley's proudly misspent life threatens to dwarf even his cynically fatalistic non-expectations. Arriving at his cramped cave of an office, Butley is informed that his adored Joey is moving in with another man, his estranged wife is re-marrying, and his seemingly untalented colleague has been published ahead of him.

As embodied by Alan Bates, Butley falls back on the surgically precise wit and savage eloquence that helped put him in his current circumstances in the first place. The blitzkrieg of vitriolic commentary with which Butley engages lovers, students, rivals, and allies, all with equal ferocity, becomes a glass bottom boat illuminating the churning depths of his bankrupted soul. Acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter, in what Time Magazine hailed as "a quite superior directorial debut," turns author Simon Gray's single-set, dialogue driven stage play into an irresistible dynamic visual experience that tracks Bates' hilarious and fearless performance with cunning precision.

Bates and an expert supporting cast, including Oscar® winner Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy), joust with a sly, self-referencing wit and an unselfconscious exuberance that is breathtaking. With every verbal parry and valedictory flourish of wordplay, Butley's life becomes more of an inescapable bear trap of thwarted ambition, clandestine affection, and squandered brilliance.

Product Extras :

Interview with Alan Bates, Interview with Edie Landau, “Ely Landau: In Front of the Camera,” a promotional film for the American Film Theatre, Gallery of trailers for the American Film Theatre, Optional English SDH subtitles

Publish Date : 2019-07-30
UV Canada Link : https://unobstructedview.com/butley-blu-ray-kin23908-web.html
  • Harold Pinter - Director
  • Jessica Tandy - Actor
  • Alan Bates - Actor

Reviews

"An extraordinary success...a devilishly entertaining piece and showpiece for Alan Bates" - Stanley Eichelbaum, The San Francisco Examiner

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