The Criterion Collection
Smooth Talk
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Directed by: Joyce Chopra
Featuring: Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Elizabeth Berridge, Levon Helm, Margaret Welsh, Sarah Inglis, Treat Willaims
Year: 1985
Time: 91 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 1068
Release Date: February 23 2021
MSRP:
$39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc | BD-50
1.85:1 ratio
English 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
Conversation among Joyce Chopra, author Joyce Carol Oates, and actor Laura Dern from the 2020 New York Film Festival, moderated by TCM host Alicia Malone
New interview with Joyce Chopra
New interviews with actors Mary Kay Place and Treat Willaims
New interview with production designer David Wasco
KPFK Pacifica Radio interview with Joyce Chopra from 1985
Joyce at 34 (1972), Girls at 12 (1975), and Clorae and Albie (1976), three short films by Chopra
Audio reading of the 1966 Life magazine article “The Pied Piper of Tucson,” which inspired the short story by Oates
Original theatrical trailer
2020 re-rerelease trailer
An essay by poet and memoirist Honor Moore, a 1986 New York Times article by Joyce Carol Oates about the adaptation, and Oates’s 1966 short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
