Gettysburg: Director's Cut (Blu-ray Book Packaging)

Description

Marking the 150th-anniversary commemoration of the Civil
War, Ronald F. Maxwell’s acclaimed film now arrives in a Director’s Cut
featuring 17 minutes of compelling additional footage. Filmed at actual battle
locations and full of authentic details, this rousing and soulful movie
plunges you into the heat of the bloodiest battle fought on American soil.
History comes alive with intense and spirited battles as well as the dilemmas,
motivations and fears of the leaders. Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen
and Stephen Lang star in this magnificent epic based on Michael Shaara’s
Pulitzer Prize-winning The Killer Angels. Set Contains: With just 17 minutes
of additional footage, the Gettysburg rerelease has to be one of the more
modest director’s cuts in recent memory (by contrast, the director’s cut of
Gods and Generals, the Gettysburg prequel that was also reissued to mark the
150th anniversary of the Civil War, contains a full hour of previously unseen
material). The bulk of this new footage consists of additions to previously
existing scenes, such as a conversation in the Confederate camp between Tom
Berenger’s Lt. Gen. James Longstreet and Stephen Lang’s Maj. Gen. George
Pickett. Like the Gods and Generals rerelease, this two-disc edition comes in
handsome Blu-ray “book packaging,” which includes bios of cast members and
their characters, photos, time lines, and more. Audio commentary by director
Maxwell, cinematographer Kees Van Oostrum, author James M. McPherson, and
military historian Craig Symonds, expanded from the original video release,
can be found on the first disc, while various other special features, almost
all of which have been previously issued, appear on disc two (in standard DVD
format, not Blu-ray). Principal among these is a nearly hour-long making-of
featurette, narrated by Martin Sheen; the piece is informative but slick,
playing out like a promo for the movie while providing both Civil War
background and details about central characters… and, of course, their beards.
Elsewhere, The Battle of Gettysburg, a 30-minute film that was a 1956 Oscar
nominee, offers a detailed history of the battle–not with interviews or
reenactments, but entirely by way of photos, music, statues of the main
characters, footage of the battlefield landscape as it is today, and Leslie
Nielsen’s narration. Remaining features include maps of the battlefield and
the one new addition, a piece encouraging viewers to make The Journey Through
Hallowed Ground, a tour of Civil War battlefields and landmarks from
Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to Monticello in Virginia. –Sam Graham

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Military & War, Action & Adventure
• Format: Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, AC-3, NTSC, Dolby, Widescreen, Director's Cut, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound See more
• Contributor: Jeff Daniels, Kevin Conway, Moctesuma Esparza, C. Thomas Howell, Sam Elliott, William Campbell, Stephen Lang, Martin Sheen, Ronald F. Maxwell, Richard Jordan, Robert Katz, Tom Berenger See more
• Language: English, Spanish
• Runtime: 4 hours and 31 minutes
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 6.4 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1000188497
• Director ‏ : ‎ Ronald F. Maxwell
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Multiple Formats, AC-3, NTSC, Dolby, Widescreen, Director's Cut, Subtitled, DTS Surround Sound
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 4 hours and 31 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ May 24, 2011
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Martin Sheen, Sam Elliott, C. Thomas Howell
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish