Milos Forman's Classic Musical "HAIR" -- Olive Signature Announces Blu-ray Release June 2020

Olive Signature

Olive Films proudly presents the following Olive Signature title:

 Hair (1979) - Blu-ray only
 

Hair, the Broadway rock musical sensation of 1968, would find its way to the big screen over a decade later under the masterful direction of two-time Academy Award® winner Milos Forman (Best Director - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - 1976, Amadeus - 1985) in a film adaptation as magical as it is timeless.

Based on the Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot stage musical, Hair stars John Savage (The Deer Hunter) as naïve country boy Claude Hooper Bukowski, a Vietnam War draftee who travels to New York where he’s swept up in a world of free love, hallucinogens and romance, courtesy of hippies Berger (Treat Williams), Jeannie (Annie Golden), Hud (Dorsey Wright) and Woof (Don Dacus). Beverly D’Angelo co-stars as Sheila, a beautiful debutante and the object of Claude’s affections.

Hair boasts a catalog of hit songs — “Good Morning Starshine,” “I Got Life,” “Hair,” “Where Do I Go” — ingeniously staged and adeptly performed by its cast, including a heartbreaking rendition of “Easy to Be Hard,” a showstopper for actress Cheryl Barnes in her one and only screen performance.

JOHN SAVAGE
(The Deer Hunter, The Onion Field, Salvador)
TREAT WILLIAMS
(Prince of the City, Smooth Talk, The Ritz)
BEVERLY D’ANGELO
(Coal Miner’s Daughter, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Cable TV’s Entourage)
ANNIE GOLDEN
(12 Monkeys, I Love You Phillip Morris, Cable TV's Orange Is the New Black)
DORSEY WRIGHT
(The Warriors, Vamp Bikers, The Hotel New Hampshire)
DON DACUS
CHERYL BARNES
ELLEN FOLEY
(Married to the Mob, Fatal Attraction, TV’s Night Court)
NELL CARTER
(Modern Problems, The Grass Harp, TV’s Gimme a Break!)
CHARLOTTE RAE
(The Hot Rock, TV’s Diff’rent Strokes, TV’s The Facts of Life)
MELBA MOORE
(The Fighting Temptations, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Lost in the Stars)
RONNIE DYSON
(Putney Swope, Some Kind of a Nut)

Directed by
MILOS FORMAN (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Man on the Moon)

Hair features an array of behind-the-camera talent including Academy
Award® winners director Milos Forman (Best Director for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus), film editor Alan Heim (Best Film Editing, All That Jazz) and costume designer Ann Roth (Best Costume Design, The English Patient).

YEAR: 1979
GENRE: MUSICAL DRAMA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 121 mins
RATING: PG
VIDEO: 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; Color
AUDIO: STEREO

OLIVE SIGNATURE FEATURES

    New HD restoration
    Audio commentary by assistant director Michael Hausman and actor Treat Williams
    “The Tribe Remembers” – with actors Beverly D’Angelo, Don Dacus, Ellen Foley, Annie Golden, John Savage, and Dorsey Wright
    “Making Chance Work: Choreographing Hair” – with choreographer Twyla Tharp
    “Cutting Hair” – with editors Lynzee Klingman and Stanley Warnow
    “Hair Style” – with production designer Stuart Wurtzel
    “Artist, Teacher, Mentor: Remembering Milos Forman” – with director James Mangold
    Essay by critic Sheila O’Malley


US+CANADA
STREET: 6/30/2020
CAT: OS021
UPC: 887090602105
SRP: $39.95

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