Details
Swimming to Cambodia (Limited Edition) Blu-Ray (US Import)
Vinegar Syndrome / Cinématographe
Original title: Swimming to Cambodia
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 810161482801
Image: 1.85:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: English - DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles: English SDH
Age rating: R
Genre: Drama
Cast: Spalding Gray
Director: Jonathan Demme
Synopsis:
Noted playwright, novelist and monologist Spalding Gray spent eight weeks in Asia as an actor in Roland Joffé's Academy Award Winning historical drama The Killing Fields , chronicling the history of the Khmer Rouge regime. In his famous one man show, Swimming to Cambodia, Gray laid bare his experiences on set and contextualizes his anecdotes with the stark history of the region.
Extras:
- Region A Blu-ray
- New audio commentary with film critic Scout Tafoya
- Lifting Up the Carpet - a new video interview with Roland Joffé, director of The Killing Fields
- A Good Story is a Good Story - a new video interview with executive producer Ira Deutchman
- The Great Sensorium of the World - a new video interview with producer Edward Saxon
- Archival video interview with Jonathan Demme from 2013
- Two episodes of the Pure Nonfiction podcast: Jonathan Demme's Real Life Characters , recorded in 2016, featuring Demme discussing Swimming to Cambodia; and Jonathan Demme & Renée Shafransky on Spalding Gray, recorded in 2017
- New text essays by film critics Marya E. Gates, Chris Shields, Keith Uhlich and David M. Stewart, author of There's No Going Back: The Life and Work of Jonathan Demme
- English SDH subtitles