LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Masters of Cinema) Dual Format (Blu-ray & DVD)

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Adapted directly from the play by Eugene O Neill (considered the Nobel laureate s magnum opus), Long Day s Journey into Night is a four-act study of addiction and recrimination that the playwright cled was written "in tears and blood". Taking place over a single, eful day in the summer of 1912, the Tyrone family (modelled after O'Neill's own) confront their bitter failings and long-held resentments. Patriarch James (Ralph Richardson) is a renowned stage actor who s never forgotten his squalid Irish childhood, and has forsaken artistic ambition for commercial success. His wife Mary (Katharine Hepburn) has developed a morphine addiction, his eldest son Jamie (Jason Robards, Jr. ) is a violent alcoholic and failed actor, and his youngest (and clearly favoured) son Edmund (Dean Stockwell) is a nervous young man in poor . All of them have something painful to say, and their silence is even worse. Directed by Sidney Lumet (Serpico, The Offence), whose instinctive understanding of adaptation and near-telepathic rapport with actors made him the perfect director for the material (Lumet had previously adapted O Neil s The Iceman Cometh into an accled TV drama, also starring Jason Robards), The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Long Day s Journey into Night in its UK debut on Blu-ray and DVD in a Special Dual Format edition. DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL FEATURES * 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray, from a high-definition digital transfer * Progressive encode on DVD * Optional English subtitles * Brand new feature-length audio commentary by author Scott Harrison * Brand new and exclusive video essay by Lee Gambin * Trailer * PLUS: a collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Philip Kemp PRESS "Sidney Lumet has given us a superb cinematic translation of the only American play to which the much-abused adjective "great" can seriously be applied. " Esquire Magazine "an excellent film adaption of the late Eugene O'Neill's lengthy stage work. " Variety "a tribute to Lumet s drive and stamina" Film Comment Magazine