Overlord
Criterion (1975)
Drama, War
In Collection
#9819
0*
Seen It:  Yes
715515023122
IMDB   7.4
1 hr 24 mins UK / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Nicholas Ball Arthur
Davyd Harries Jack
Brian Stimer
Brian Stirner Tom
Julie Neesam The Girl
Sam Sewell The Trained Soldier
John Franklyn-Robbins Dad
Stella Tanner Mum
Harry Shacklock Stationmaster
David Scheuer Medical Officer
Ian Liston Barrack Guard
Director
Stuart Cooper
Producer James Quinn
Writer Stuart Cooper
Christopher Hudson

Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of WWII and a dreamlike meditation on man's smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.
Edition Details
Edition Criterion Collection
Distributor Criterion
Release Date 4/17/2007
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W (Anamorphic)
Subtitles English
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
Audio commentary featuring director Stuart Cooper and actor Brian Stirner Mining the Archive, a new video featuring Imperial War Museum film archivists detailing the war footage used in the film Capa Influences Cooper, A new photo essay featuring Cooper on photographer Robert Capa A Test Of Violence (1969), Cooper's short film about Spanish artist Juan Genoves. Cameramen at War, the British Ministry of Information's 1943 film tribute to newsreel and service film unit cameramen Germany Calling, a 1941 British Ministry of Information propaganda film, clips of which appear in Overlord Journals from two D-day soldiers, read by Brian Stirner Theatrical trailer PLUS: A new essay by critic Kent Jones, a short history of the Imperial War Museum, and excerpts from the Overlord novelization, by Cooper and Christopher Hudson A short history of the Imperial War Museum Excerpts from the Overlord novelization, by Cooper and Christopher Hudson