Lone star

Author

John Sayles

Call Number

• BLU-RAY MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)

Edition

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

In English and Spanish, with English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Ron Canada, Chris Cooper, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson, Frances McDormand, Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, Miriam Colón, Matthew McConaughey, Tony Plana.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2024]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (135 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm.)

Audience

MPA rating: R; for brief language, sex and violence.

Summary

A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's masterful film--novelistic in its intricacy and featuring a brilliant ensemble cast, including Joe Morton, Elizabeth Peña, and Kris Kristofferson--quietly subverts national mythmaking and lays bare the fault lines of life at the border."--Container.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director John Sayles and director of photography Stuart Dryburgh, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; new conversation between Sayles and filmmaker Gregory Nava ; new interview with Dryburgh ; trailer.