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[Frances stands by a tall cabinet in a darkened room.] Frances: I can't sleep.
[She is a white woman of average height, with long brown hair and a fringe.]
Frances: It was such a long, tiring day for me. I suppose that I am too tired to go to sleep.
And then, too, it is strange, knowing that someone else is in the house.
[Close-up on Frances staring out of the window, wearing her hair up.] Frances: Do you think that I'm lonely? [Frances stands in a darkened room.]
Frances: I am, you know, but I don't think about it. [Shot of Frances outside in the pouring rain holding an umbrella, looking through a wire fence.]
[In a bedroom.] Frances: I wish I knew whether you were really asleep or just pretending. You are very clever at pretending not to understand.
[In a living room, Frances glances at The Boy's naked torso as he unbuttons his pants. Frances lies down on the bed in a bedroom.]
Frances: I'm not going to get under the covers. I'm just going to lay on the top. Just here, just like this.
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis".] Frances: If you feel you want to make love to me, er, it's alright.
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis".] Frances: I want you to make love to me.
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis". Frances leans over to the side of the bed.] Frances: Please.
[She stares at the body next to her in bed. Close-up on Frances staring out of the window.]
Narrator: When does the screaming loneliness drown the silence of reason?
When do the innermost cravings of a woman tear away the ironclad bonds of her small Victorian world?
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis".] Narrator: For Frances Austen, a virgin spinster of 32, it happens that cold day in the park.
[A caption reads "That Cold Day in the Park" as lightning strikes. Close-up on Frances staring out of the window.]
Narrator: For Frances, the promise of fulfillment comes in the form of a wet, shivering 19-year old boy.
[A caption reads "Michael Burns". Frances stands under her umbrella. She is talking to a boy in the pouring rain on the other side of the fence.]
Frances: I'm talk... I'm talking to you! Come over here! Yes, you!
[The Boy approaches Frances from the other side of the fence. He is drenched.] Frances: I saw you from my apartment. I've been watching you in the rain.
Would you like to come upstairs to my place, to my apartment, and get dry?
[Back in the apartment. The Boy is sitting on the couch. Frances is standing in front of him.]
Narrator: She will possess The Boy, she will desire him, and he, in time, will desire her.
Frances: I've made up a bed for you in the spare room. [The Boy looks up at Frances from the couch.]
Frances: You can stay if you like. If you want to.
[The Boy, his sister Nina and Nick are sitting on a bed, under a blanket.]
Nick: How much did she pay you? It's like, if your sister here had any dough, she'd be paying me.
[Back at Frances's apartment, The Boy gives Nina a back massage.]
Nina: Mmm, I wish you weren't my brother. Do you wish I wasn't your sister?
Frances: I want things to stay the way they are. You can understand that, can't you?
[Frances stands by the door of a bedroom in her apartment.] Frances: I can't let you go.
[The Boy, standing by the bedroom window, looks at Frances, open-mouthed in surprise.]
Frances: Not now.
[Nighttime. Thunder rolling]
[Still of The Boy embracing Frances.] Narrator: Academy Award winner Sandy Dennis, superb as a woman driven by a hunger that must be satisfied.
[Lightning flashing. A caption reads "That Cold Day in the Park".]
Narrator: "That Cold Day in the Park". Co-starring newcomer Michael Burns, [The Boy lying on a couch, looks up.] who reaches stardom in a single performance, Susanne Benton, and John Garfield Jr., [Nina climbs into bed with Nick] and Luana Anders. [Close-up of Sylvia.]
[Various shots of the protagonists in quick succession, in dark rooms, in cars at night, in bathrooms.]
[A caption reading, "A Factor-Altman-Mirell Production. That Cold Day in the Park. Released by Commonwealth United."]
Narrator: This extraordinary motion picture demands your involvement from beginning to end, as it peeks without shame into the deepest crevices of human emotion.
[In Frances's apartment, Frances holds The Boy's face close to hers as she kisses him.] Frances: There's no need to be afraid now. You can stay with me.
[The Boy squirms as Frances kisses him. The camera moves to a close-up on The Boy's scared face.]
Arrow Video
Made after years of directing television and industrial films - and just one year before his commercial breakthrough with M*A*S*H - Robert Altman's underrated psychosexual chiller That Cold Day in the Park, arguably the first true 'Altman film', is a stylish harbinger of the themes that would resonate through many of the director's later masterpieces such as Images and 3 Women.
On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Academy Award winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a reclusive virgin sheltered from the sexual revolution happening outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with an enigmatic 19 year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. Inviting him into her apartment to be bathed and fed, Frances' repressed fantasies soon violently boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches... no matter what.
Adapted from Richard Miles' novel by British author Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys), Altman expertly turns the screws in this suspenseful tale of sexual repression, the chilly Vancouver locations vividly photographed by László Kovács the same year he lensed Easy Rider, and accompanied by a haunting score from Johnny Mandel, just before he co-wrote the anthem "Suicide Is Painless" for Altman's next film.
Product Features
TWO-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tom Ralston
- Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Brad Stevens, Anna Bogutskaya and James Flower, original press notes including an essay by Altman, and an excerpt from David Thompson's Altman on Altman
DISC ONE
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- New audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan
- Isolated music and effects track in lossless mono
- Crazy in the Rain: Altman's Vancouver, a newly produced featurette revisiting the locations by Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women
- Archive interview with film critic and historian David Thompson, author of Altman on Altman
- Extended scenes from a pre-release print of the film, never seen on home video before
- Over ten minutes of behind-the-scenes footage featuring Altman and Dennis, from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC TWO (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE)
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of a newly extended 114-minute version of the film re-integrating previously deleted material from a surviving pre-release print
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- 107 / 114 mins approx. Total: 221 mins approx
- Robert Altman
- 15
- Sandy Dennis
- Michael Burns
- Susanne Benton
- 1.78:1
English SDH
- 1969
- English
- 2
- B
- Arrow Video
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[Frances stands by a tall cabinet in a darkened room.] Frances: I can't sleep.
[She is a white woman of average height, with long brown hair and a fringe.]
Frances: It was such a long, tiring day for me. I suppose that I am too tired to go to sleep.
And then, too, it is strange, knowing that someone else is in the house.
[Close-up on Frances staring out of the window, wearing her hair up.] Frances: Do you think that I'm lonely? [Frances stands in a darkened room.]
Frances: I am, you know, but I don't think about it. [Shot of Frances outside in the pouring rain holding an umbrella, looking through a wire fence.]
[In a bedroom.] Frances: I wish I knew whether you were really asleep or just pretending. You are very clever at pretending not to understand.
[In a living room, Frances glances at The Boy's naked torso as he unbuttons his pants. Frances lies down on the bed in a bedroom.]
Frances: I'm not going to get under the covers. I'm just going to lay on the top. Just here, just like this.
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis".] Frances: If you feel you want to make love to me, er, it's alright.
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis".] Frances: I want you to make love to me.
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis". Frances leans over to the side of the bed.] Frances: Please.
[She stares at the body next to her in bed. Close-up on Frances staring out of the window.]
Narrator: When does the screaming loneliness drown the silence of reason?
When do the innermost cravings of a woman tear away the ironclad bonds of her small Victorian world?
[A caption reads "Sandy Dennis".] Narrator: For Frances Austen, a virgin spinster of 32, it happens that cold day in the park.
[A caption reads "That Cold Day in the Park" as lightning strikes. Close-up on Frances staring out of the window.]
Narrator: For Frances, the promise of fulfillment comes in the form of a wet, shivering 19-year old boy.
[A caption reads "Michael Burns". Frances stands under her umbrella. She is talking to a boy in the pouring rain on the other side of the fence.]
Frances: I'm talk... I'm talking to you! Come over here! Yes, you!
[The Boy approaches Frances from the other side of the fence. He is drenched.] Frances: I saw you from my apartment. I've been watching you in the rain.
Would you like to come upstairs to my place, to my apartment, and get dry?
[Back in the apartment. The Boy is sitting on the couch. Frances is standing in front of him.]
Narrator: She will possess The Boy, she will desire him, and he, in time, will desire her.
Frances: I've made up a bed for you in the spare room. [The Boy looks up at Frances from the couch.]
Frances: You can stay if you like. If you want to.
[The Boy, his sister Nina and Nick are sitting on a bed, under a blanket.]
Nick: How much did she pay you? It's like, if your sister here had any dough, she'd be paying me.
[Back at Frances's apartment, The Boy gives Nina a back massage.]
Nina: Mmm, I wish you weren't my brother. Do you wish I wasn't your sister?
Frances: I want things to stay the way they are. You can understand that, can't you?
[Frances stands by the door of a bedroom in her apartment.] Frances: I can't let you go.
[The Boy, standing by the bedroom window, looks at Frances, open-mouthed in surprise.]
Frances: Not now.
[Nighttime. Thunder rolling]
[Still of The Boy embracing Frances.] Narrator: Academy Award winner Sandy Dennis, superb as a woman driven by a hunger that must be satisfied.
[Lightning flashing. A caption reads "That Cold Day in the Park".]
Narrator: "That Cold Day in the Park". Co-starring newcomer Michael Burns, [The Boy lying on a couch, looks up.] who reaches stardom in a single performance, Susanne Benton, and John Garfield Jr., [Nina climbs into bed with Nick] and Luana Anders. [Close-up of Sylvia.]
[Various shots of the protagonists in quick succession, in dark rooms, in cars at night, in bathrooms.]
[A caption reading, "A Factor-Altman-Mirell Production. That Cold Day in the Park. Released by Commonwealth United."]
Narrator: This extraordinary motion picture demands your involvement from beginning to end, as it peeks without shame into the deepest crevices of human emotion.
[In Frances's apartment, Frances holds The Boy's face close to hers as she kisses him.] Frances: There's no need to be afraid now. You can stay with me.
[The Boy squirms as Frances kisses him. The camera moves to a close-up on The Boy's scared face.]
Arrow Video
Made after years of directing television and industrial films - and just one year before his commercial breakthrough with M*A*S*H - Robert Altman's underrated psychosexual chiller That Cold Day in the Park, arguably the first true 'Altman film', is a stylish harbinger of the themes that would resonate through many of the director's later masterpieces such as Images and 3 Women.
On a cold and rainy day, Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis, Academy Award winner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), a reclusive virgin sheltered from the sexual revolution happening outside her door, suddenly becomes obsessed with an enigmatic 19 year-old boy she sees sitting on a park bench. Inviting him into her apartment to be bathed and fed, Frances' repressed fantasies soon violently boil over into a dangerous and disturbing desire to keep the boy in her clutches... no matter what.
Adapted from Richard Miles' novel by British author Gillian Freeman (The Leather Boys), Altman expertly turns the screws in this suspenseful tale of sexual repression, the chilly Vancouver locations vividly photographed by László Kovács the same year he lensed Easy Rider, and accompanied by a haunting score from Johnny Mandel, just before he co-wrote the anthem "Suicide Is Painless" for Altman's next film.
Product Features
TWO-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tom Ralston
- Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Brad Stevens, Anna Bogutskaya and James Flower, original press notes including an essay by Altman, and an excerpt from David Thompson's Altman on Altman
DISC ONE
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- New audio commentary by critic Samm Deighan
- Isolated music and effects track in lossless mono
- Crazy in the Rain: Altman's Vancouver, a newly produced featurette revisiting the locations by Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women
- Archive interview with film critic and historian David Thompson, author of Altman on Altman
- Extended scenes from a pre-release print of the film, never seen on home video before
- Over ten minutes of behind-the-scenes footage featuring Altman and Dennis, from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
DISC TWO (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE)
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of a newly extended 114-minute version of the film re-integrating previously deleted material from a surviving pre-release print
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- 107 / 114 mins approx. Total: 221 mins approx
- Robert Altman
- 15
- Sandy Dennis
- Michael Burns
- Susanne Benton
- 1.78:1
English SDH
- 1969
- English
- 2
- B
- Arrow Video
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Altman's first.
Would only recommend this to someone who wants to see Altman's first feature. You can see some of his future style quite well.
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