Missing
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2008.
Format: DVD
Edition: Criterion.
Description: 2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
As the title screens proclaim, "This film is based on a true story. The incidents and facts are documented. Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and also to protect the film." In a Latin American country in the throes of a military coup, Charles Horman, an American journalist and filmmaker living there with his wife Joyce, disappears--never to be seen again. His father Ed always found his son flaky and naïve, and didn't approve of his lifestyle, but he joins Joyce in a wild-goose chase through bureaucratic dead ends. They eventually come to suspect that the American consulate is lying to them about Charles' disappearance and about their country's investment in the coup's success. Ed makes the transition from unquestioning patriot to newly awakened skeptic of U.S. covert activities, a decent citizen who embodies the conscience of a nation.
Series: Criterion collection ; 449.
Other Authors:
Lewis, Edward (Motion picture producer)
Costa-Gavras, 1933-
Stewart, Donald, 1930-1999.
Lewis, Mildred.
Lemmon, Jack.
Spacek, Sissy.
Shea, John, 1949-
Mayron, Melanie.
Clennon, David.
Rule, Janice.
Cioffi, Charles, 1935-
Venture, Richard, 1923-2017.
Horman, Joyce.
Daniel, Sean.
Horman, Ed.
Kornbluh, Peter.
Hauser, Thomas. Execution of Charles Horman.
Wood, Michael, 1936- Who would care about us if we disappeared?
Simon, Terry. Real people.
Crowdus, Gary, 1945- Interview with Costa-Gavras.
Universal Pictures (Firm)
Polygram Pictures.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Lewis, Edward (Motion picture producer)
Costa-Gavras, 1933-
Stewart, Donald, 1930-1999.
Lewis, Mildred.
Lemmon, Jack.
Spacek, Sissy.
Shea, John, 1949-
Mayron, Melanie.
Clennon, David.
Rule, Janice.
Cioffi, Charles, 1935-
Venture, Richard, 1923-2017.
Horman, Joyce.
Daniel, Sean.
Horman, Ed.
Kornbluh, Peter.
Hauser, Thomas. Execution of Charles Horman.
Wood, Michael, 1936- Who would care about us if we disappeared?
Simon, Terry. Real people.
Crowdus, Gary, 1945- Interview with Costa-Gavras.
Universal Pictures (Firm)
Polygram Pictures.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Contents:
Disc 1 the film: Charles and Terry -- Back home with Beth -- "They can't hurt us" -- Past curfew -- Ed Horman in D.C. -- Two weeks missing -- "The hiding theory" -- Viña Del Mar -- Capt. Ray Tower -- Charles's arrest -- Another theory -- Teruggi and Holloway -- "I just want my boy back" -- Hospital inquiries -- Getting to know Charlie -- National stadium -- Italian Embassy -- Charles's notes -- Morgue -- Closer -- Ford Foundation -- Reason to believe -- Call from Putnam -- Going home -- Color bars (1982) (122 min.); Trailer (3 min.).
Disc 2 the supplements: Costa-Gravas video interview excerpted from the 1982 television news program JA2 20H [featurette] (33 min.) -- Joyce Horman on "Missing", interview with the widow of Charles Horman [featurette] (30 min.) -- Producing "Missing", interview with producers Edward and Mildred Lewis and Sean Daniel, and author of the source novel Thomas Hauser [featurette] (18 min.) --1982 Cannes Film Festival interview with Lemmon, Costa-Gavras, Charles' father Ed Horman, and family friend Terry Simon [featurette] (20 min.) -- Pursuing truth: an interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project [featurette] (20 min.) -- In honor of "Missing", 2002 award ceremony held by the Charles Horman Truth Project for the film [featurette] (21 min.); booklet includes the essays "Who would care about us if we disappeared?" by critic Michael Wood, an open letter "Real People" by friend-of-the-family Terry Simon, "An interview with Costa-Gavras" by Cineaste editor Gary Crowdus, and "U.S. State Department's response to the film."
Disc 2 the supplements: Costa-Gravas video interview excerpted from the 1982 television news program JA2 20H [featurette] (33 min.) -- Joyce Horman on "Missing", interview with the widow of Charles Horman [featurette] (30 min.) -- Producing "Missing", interview with producers Edward and Mildred Lewis and Sean Daniel, and author of the source novel Thomas Hauser [featurette] (18 min.) --1982 Cannes Film Festival interview with Lemmon, Costa-Gavras, Charles' father Ed Horman, and family friend Terry Simon [featurette] (20 min.) -- Pursuing truth: an interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project [featurette] (20 min.) -- In honor of "Missing", 2002 award ceremony held by the Charles Horman Truth Project for the film [featurette] (21 min.); booklet includes the essays "Who would care about us if we disappeared?" by critic Michael Wood, an open letter "Real People" by friend-of-the-family Terry Simon, "An interview with Costa-Gavras" by Cineaste editor Gary Crowdus, and "U.S. State Department's response to the film."
Subjects:
Horman, Charles, 1942-1973 -- Drama.
Hauser, Thomas -- Film adaptations.
Disappeared persons -- Drama.
Missing persons -- Drama.
Coups d'état -- Drama.
Journalists -- Drama.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Chile -- Drama.
South America -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Drama.
Chile -- History -- Coup d'état, 1973 -- Drama.
Chile -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Drama.
Horman, Charles, 1942-1973 -- Drama.
Hauser, Thomas -- Film adaptations.
Disappeared persons -- Drama.
Missing persons -- Drama.
Coups d'état -- Drama.
Journalists -- Drama.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Chile -- Drama.
South America -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Drama.
Chile -- History -- Coup d'état, 1973 -- Drama.
Chile -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Drama.
ISBN:
9781604650631
UPC: 715515031820
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
DVD DRAMA Missing | Wheatley (Shandon) | DVD | In |
Based on the book The execution of Charles Horman / by Thomas Hauser.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982.
Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
Director of photography, Ricardo Aronovich ; film editor, Françoise Bonnot ; music composed and arranged by Vangelis ; production designer, Peter Jamison ; special visual effects by Albert Whitlock.
Jack Lemmon (Ed Horman), Sissy Spacek (Beth Horman), John Shea (Charles Horman), Melanie Mayron (Terry Simon), David Clennon (Consul Phil Putman), Janice Rule (Kate Newman), Charles Cioffi (Captain Ray Tower), Richard Venture (U.S. Ambassador).
A film based loosely on actual events. A declassified document released in 1999 by the U.S. Government appears to contradict the State Department's official statement on the film, supporting the essential themes of the film. From http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991008.
Winner, Palm D'Or: Costa-Gavras, Best Actor: Jack Lemmon--1982 Cannes Film Festival; Best Film Editing: Françoise Bonnot, Best Screenplay: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart--1983 BAFTA Film Awards; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart--1983 Academy Awards.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982.
Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
Director of photography, Ricardo Aronovich ; film editor, Françoise Bonnot ; music composed and arranged by Vangelis ; production designer, Peter Jamison ; special visual effects by Albert Whitlock.
Jack Lemmon (Ed Horman), Sissy Spacek (Beth Horman), John Shea (Charles Horman), Melanie Mayron (Terry Simon), David Clennon (Consul Phil Putman), Janice Rule (Kate Newman), Charles Cioffi (Captain Ray Tower), Richard Venture (U.S. Ambassador).
A film based loosely on actual events. A declassified document released in 1999 by the U.S. Government appears to contradict the State Department's official statement on the film, supporting the essential themes of the film. From http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991008.
Winner, Palm D'Or: Costa-Gavras, Best Actor: Jack Lemmon--1982 Cannes Film Festival; Best Film Editing: Françoise Bonnot, Best Screenplay: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart--1983 BAFTA Film Awards; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium: Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart--1983 Academy Awards.