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THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

Fox Home Entertainment has announced The History Boys which stars Richard Griffiths. The film is based on the celebrated stage play that ran at the National Theatre in London from May 2004 until April 2005 and won more Tony Awards® than any other play in the past 50 years. The film will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include an audio commentary by Director Nicolas Hytner and Writer Alan Bennett, a History Boys Around the World: The Tour Diaries feature, and a Pass it On: The History Boys on Screen behind-the-scenes featurette.

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/the-history-boys.html
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

THANK GOD! I've been suffering withdrawal since I saw it in December, and it can't be released soon enough... Thought it sucks that they have to do it while I'm in Israel! Couldn't they do it two weeks earlier?
God is dead. Shit lives.
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re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

Thanks for posting about this! I've been checking a lot lately for a US date. To those who missed the film's theatrical release (or the play itself, though the two are a little different), definitely pick this up! It's a rare opportunity to see a celebrated original cast anytime you want, in a brilliant Alan Bennett work no less.

ETA: Capn, I believe you mean the 17th...

"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)

Updated On: 2/13/07 at 07:16 PM

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re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I can't wait that long. *whimpers* I want my History Boys now! April...phooey.

Althought the bonus features sound great! Maybe there'll be some DCI Darwood episodes!

As for CurtainPullDowner's comment: we can only hope so.
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
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re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

Just to breathe a little new life into the thread--there is finally DVD cover art:

re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

Those who favor the advertising for the stage production probably won't go for it, but I suppose it's perfectly in line with the film's marketing. And fun to look at, anyway.

"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)
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re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

I *think* that is the region 2 cover art, is it not? I believe region 1 is simply the movie poster.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced

i hope its not the real thing because its missing a KEY element... JAMIE!!!

Wow, I hadn't even noticed that...that's a pretty huge omission. Yikes.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)

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