True Stories

 

Year: 1986

Time: 89 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 951

Release Date: Tuesday, 20 November 2018

MSRP: $49.95

 

Blu-ray

2 Discs

1.85:1

English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1

Subtitles: English

Regions A/None

 

 New documentary about the film’s production, featuring David Byrne, Ed Lachman, writer Stephen Tobolowsky, executive producer Edward Pressman, coproducer Karen Murphy, fashion-show costume designer Adelle Lutz, consultant Christina Patoski, actor Jo Harvey Allen, and musician Terry Allen   CD with 23 songs, containing the film’s complete soundtrack, compiled here for the first time   Real Life (1986), a short documentary by Pamela Yates and Newton Thomas Sigel made on the set of the film   No Time to Look Back, a new homage to Virgil, Texas, the fictional town where True Stories is set   New program about designer Tibor Kalman and his influence on Byrne and role in the film, featuring David Byrne and Kalman’s wife, artist Maira Kalman   Deleted scenes   Trailer   An essay by critic Rebecca Bengal, along with new pieces by journalist and author David Byrne and Joe Nick Patoski, a 1986 piece by actor Spalding Gray on the film’s production, some of the tabloid stories that inspired the film, and a selection of Byrne’s preproduction photography and writing about the film’s visual motifs