Stormy Monday (Blu-ray + DVD) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 11, 2017
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Arrow Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tommy Lee Jones, Sting, Sean Bean & Melanie Griffith | |
Performer: | James Cosmo, Mark Long & Heathcote Williams | |
Directed by | Mike Figgis | |
Edited by | David Martin | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Figgis | |
Composition by | Mike Figgis | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins |
Entertainment Reviews:
It is all style and promise, a come-on that keeps on coming on but never satisfies. The Big Tease.
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Washington Post
...Arresting...
Variety
An atmospheric mix of urban grit and northern noir assembled with the artful imagery and moody timbre we've come to expect from Mike Figgis.
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Film4
...[Figgis] brings the place, the plot and the film's haunting characters vibrantly to life....[Griffith makes] an irrevocably strong impression...
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Mr. Figgis, who is a musician as well as a film maker, brings the place, the plot and the film's haunting characters vibrantly to life. What's more, he makes them irresistibly interesting.
New York Times
All visual flash and no script, with comatose performances to boot.
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Variety
Mix American gangsters, molls and majorettes with Polish avant-garde jazz musicians against a Newcastle background - and what you've got is a curious homage to B movie Hollywood and the rain-washed neon of the pulps.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Writer-director Mike Figgis's remarkably understated first feature concerns a young man named Brendan (Sean Bean) who becomes involved in the seedy underworld politics of small Newcastle, England. Brendan takes a job at a local nightclub run by a man named Finney (Sting); he also meets Kate (Melanie Griffith), a cocktail waitress. Both Finney and Kate are struggling with an American business tycoon called Frank Cosmo (Tommy Lee Jones), who is trying to develop Newcastle at the expense of local businesses. Brendan's only half-knowledgeable involvement, the role of coincidence in shaping the ensuing action, the woman with a past--all the elements of film noir are at play here, accompanied by darkly lit streets and the reds and blues of nightclub neon. Figgis indulges his taste for jazz as well; he scored the film, and a jazz band even figures in the story. Bean and Griffith are believably entwined, but the standout in the cast is Sting, whose soulful Englishness is perfectly counterpoised with Jones's brash American bravado. In fact, STORMY MONDAY's interest in English culture versus American culture is an appropriate beginning for a director whose career would continue on both sides of the Atlantic.