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Arthur Cohn Presents (American Dream/Behind the Sun/Black and White in Color/A Brief Vacation/Central Station/Dangerous Moves/The Garden of the Finzi-Continis/One Day in September/Two Bits)

José Dumont (Actor), Rodrigo Santoro (Actor), Barbara Kopple (Director), Rated:
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Format: DVD
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IMDb7.3/10.0
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February 24, 2004 		—
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— $35.66
Format Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, NTSC
Contributor Al Pacino, Helmut Berger, Jacques Spiesser, James Foley, Kevin Macdonald, José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Jean Carmet, Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Cathy Caplan, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn, Dominique Sanda, Richard Dembo, Catherine Rouvel, Lino Capolicchio, Lawrence Silk See more
Language German, English, Portuguese, French
Runtime 14 hours and 39 minutes

Product Description

In the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Arthur Cohn has received more Oscars® than any other producer. He is the only foreign film producer to have a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. Home Vision Entertainment is proud to present this unique collection of highly acclaimed films produced by the legendary Arthur Cohn, available exclusively from HVe in this special nine-disc collector’s set.

Assembled and distributed by Home Vision Entertainment, this homage to Academy Award™-winning Producer Arthur Cohn is an unprecedented collaboration among Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Classics, Paramount Pictures,
Universal Studios, Miramax Studios, and Buena Vista’s Home Entertainment Group.

This unique set features the following films, produced by Arthur Cohn, on DVD:
American Dream, Behind the Sun, Black and White in Color, Sky Above Mud Below, A Brief Vacation ,The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, One Day in September, Two Bits, and Dangerous Moves



Oscar™ and Academy Award™ are the registered trademarks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1, 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.7 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches; 2.5 Pounds
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, James Foley, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Kevin Macdonald
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, NTSC
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 14 hours and 39 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 24, 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ José Dumont, Rodrigo Santoro, Al Pacino, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Douglas
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Arthur Cohn
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Homevision
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0001689WY
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 9
  • Customer Reviews:
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Chris Kuykendall
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Package with Some Foreign Rarities
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015
I have not bought this package off Amazon, but I have a movie DVD collection, and a few of these items I already own are now hard to acquire other than via the Cohn package. Black and White in Color (Ivory Coast, 1976) won an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. Previously, the only way to obtain The Sky Above, The Mud Below (France, 1961) was by finding a DVD of the Ivory Coast movie, because the French movie was an extra on that DVD. Now this package seems to have the French movie either separately, as an extra on the Ivory Coast movie, or both. The Sky Above, the Mud Below won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature and is about an expedition across a portion of Indonesia that had never been explored by outsiders. The DVD for A Brief Vacation (Italy, 1973) has been getting rarer and rarer, and more expensive lately, but is now in this package. It's a very good Vittorio De Sica movie for which Florinda Bolkan won Best Actress honors with the New York and Los Angeles film critics organizations. The Italian movie totally skipped VHS release, to my knowledge, and thus awaited the DVD era, plus some more years, to finally become available on DVD. Central Station (Brazil, 1998) won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Film, received an Oscar nomination in the same category, and received Best Actress nominations from both the Golden Globes and the Oscars for Fernanda Montenegro. One Day in September (Switzerland/Germany/Great Britaiin, 1999) is a documentary about the terrorism at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Cohn was co-director, and it won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. (Four Days in September with a similar title is a 1997 Brazilian film and is not in the Cohn package and should not be confused with One Day in September.). Dangerous Moves (Switzerland, 1984) is a chess movie and won the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Italy, 1970) is another De Sica movie and won the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film although I was not impressed the only time I saw it 40+ years ago. Behind the Sun (Brazil, 2001), which received a Golden Globes nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film, was better although not as good as the first six movies covered in this comment. I have not seen the ninth movie in the package. It's a documentary with Jesse Jackson and is about a labor strike in Minnesota.
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