Shampoo (Criterion Collection) (Blu ray) [USA]

C.C. 95

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Release Date: October 16, 2018
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Director: Hal Ashby
Writers: Warren Beatty, Robert Towne
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Jack Warden, Lee Grant
  • United States
  • 1975
  • 109 minutes
  • 1.85:1
  • English
  • Spine #947
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Shampoo gives us a day in the life of George, a Beverly Hills hairdresser and Lothario who runs around town on the eve of the 1968 presidential election trying to make heads or tails of his financial and romantic entanglements. His attempts to scrape together the money to open his own salon are continually sidetracked by the distractions presented by his lovers—played brilliantly by Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie, and Lee Grant (in an Oscar-winning performance). Star Warren Beatty dreamed up the project, cowrote the script with Robert Towne, and enlisted Hal Ashby as director, and the resulting carousel of doomed relationships is an essential seventies farce, a sharp look back at the sexual politics and self-absorption of the preceding decade.

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SPECIAL FEATURES
  • 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray
  • New conversation between critics Mark Harris and Frank Rich
  • Excerpt from a 1998 appearance by producer, cowriter, and actor Warren Beatty on The South Bank Show
  • Trailer
  • PLUS: An essay by Rich
 
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