This Sporting Life

 

Year: 1963

Time: 135 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 417

Release Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2008

MSRP: $39.95

 

DVD

2 Discs

1.66:1

English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1

 

 Audio commentary featuring Paul Ryan, editor of Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson, and David Storey, screenwriter and author of This Sporting Life   Theatrical trailer   Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? (2004), a short documentary from BBC Scotland featuring interviews with many of the director’s friends and collaborators   New video interview with Anderson’s first producer and close friend Lois Sutcliffe Smith   Meet the Pioneers (1948), Anderson’s first film, a documentary short about a mining engineering firm   Wakefield Express (1952), an early documentary by Anderson about the town that later served as the setting for This Sporting Life   Is That All There Is? (1992), Anderson’s autobiographical final film   A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard and an article by Lindsay Anderson from 1963