THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
#1THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 2/13/07 at 5:59pm
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
--Aristotle
sarbear2
Understudy Joined: 12/22/04
#2re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:14pmTHANK 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.
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#2re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:16pm
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
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#3re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 2/13/07 at 10:58pmWill there be any nudity on the Bonus features?
#4re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:05pm
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
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
#5re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 2/13/07 at 11:50pm
aaahhh, I can't wait!!!!!
i'm so excited
i'm going through a serious withdrawl from the boys and the radio recording isn't giving me the satisfaction the 3 times i saw in in theatres during a week span gave me
*sigh*
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#6re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/2/07 at 8:35pm
Just to breathe a little new life into the thread--there is finally DVD cover art:
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)
#7re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/2/07 at 8:46pmIt looks like the Spice Girls movie cover, only with boys.
#8re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/2/07 at 8:54pmI *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
--Aristotle
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#9re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/2/07 at 8:57pmIs that the real cover art to be released because I've seen that used earlier when discussing the dvd's release in the future but not to order. Either it is a teaser cover and won't be used or that is the real deal and I love the decision!
#10re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/2/07 at 11:55pmi hope its not the real thing because its missing a KEY element... JAMIE!!!
#11re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/3/07 at 12:12amohmygosh! you're right! NO JAMIE!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#12re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/3/07 at 2:15amIts out here in the UK this Monday - 5th March, and far as i know there are a couple of designs coming out. I think HMV has one of them as an exclusive.
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#13re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/3/07 at 12:23pm
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)
tumadre2
Understudy Joined: 5/31/04
#14re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:24pmNo Jamie was the first thing I noticed! How could they manage that!?
#15re: THE HISTORY BOYS to hit DVD shelves April 18 - Bonus Features Announced
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:27pmI'm so excited for this! I missed the film when it was playing.
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