Details

Subjects:

Rule, Jane -- Film adaptations.
Lesbians -- Nevada -- Reno -- Drama.
Female friendship -- Nevada -- Reno -- Drama.
Reno (Nev.) -- Drama.
Female friendship.
Lesbians.
Nevada -- Reno.

Form/Genre:

Romance films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Romance films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Language:

Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
digital optical monaural Dolby Digital
widescreen (1.85.1)
NTSC
video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She's unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly drawn to Cay Rivers, an open and self-assured lesbian, and the ranch owner's daughter.

Participant:

Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwenn Wells, Dean Butler, James Staley, Katie Labourdette.

Credits:

Director of photography, Robert Elswit; editor, Robert Estrin.

Notes:

Based on Desert of the heart / by Jane Rule.
Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1985.
Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit; audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; Remembering Reno, a new program featuring Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style; new interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau; excerpt from Fiction and truths: a film about Jane Rule, a 1994 documentary about the author of Desert of the heart, the 1964 novel on which the film is based; an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich on insert.

Contributor:

Deitch, Donna, 1945- film producer, film director.
Cooper, Natalie, screenwriter.
Charbonneau, Patricia, actor.
Shaver, Helen (Helen Jane), 1951- actor.
Samuel Goldwyn Co., production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Related Work:

Motion picture adaptation of: Rule, Jane. Desert of the heart.

ISBN:

9781681433752
1681433753

OCLC:

1005672451

Publisher Number:

715515206013
CC2825D The Criterion Collection