Olive Films Is Proud To Announce The Following December 2020​ Release: "NELSON ALGREN LIVE" (2016) - DVD/BD

 

Olive Films is proud to announce the following December 2020​ release:

NELSON ALGREN LIVE (2016) - DVD/BD

WILLEM DAFOE
BARRY GIFFORD
RUSSELL BANKS
RICK KOGAN
MARTHA LAVEY
RANDALL NEWSOME
KATHY SCAMBIETERRA
DAN SIMON
 
Directed by
OSCAR BUCHER
 
YEAR: 2016
GENRE: PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTARY
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 72 min
RATING: N/R
VIDEO: 1.78:1 Aspect Ratio; Color / B&W
AUDIO: 5.1 SURROUND
 
SPECIAL FEATURES

    Essays by Barry Gifford & Dan Simon
    Photo essay by Art Shay
    Trailers 

 

 

One of the most neglected American writers and also one of the best loved, novelist Nelson Algren wrote about the dark underbelly of post-war America before it was ever fashionable to do so.

Best known for the novel The Man with the Golden Arm, Algren was a bard of the down-and-outer, writing about Chicago—his Chicago—boldly depicting the life of the city’s drunks, pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, corrupt politicians, and hoodlums.

On what would have been his 100th birthday, a group of actors and writers gathered at the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theater to premiere Nelson Algren Live—an onstage reading and celebration of Algren’s life and work in his own words.

Barry Gifford seamlessly steps into Algren’s voice like he’s putting on an old coat, while Willem Dafoe’s stunning performance of a punch-drunk prizefighter ignites a newly unearthed story.

US+CANADA
PREBOOK: 12/01/2020
STREET:    12/15/2020
 
NELSON ALGREN LIVE  DVD     
CAT:                 OF1426
UPC:       887090142618
SRP:                 $19.95
 
NELSON ALGREN LIVE  BD       
CAT:                 OF1427
UPC:       887090142717
SRP:                 $24.95