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A Safe Place (Criterion Collection)

A Safe Place (Criterion Collection)

BBS Productions (1971)
Drama
USA | English | Color | 01:34
Blu-ray
1 disc

A young woman in Manhattan lives in a world where the past, present and future mix.


Cast View all

Tuesday Weld Susan
Orson Welles The Magician
Jack Nicholson Mitch
Phil Proctor Fred
Gwen Welles Bari
Dov Lawrence Larry
Fanny Birkenmier The Maid
Rhonda Alfaro Little Girl in Rowboat
Sylvia Zapp Susan at Age 7
Rachel Harlow Noah's Friend
Barbara Flood Noah's Friend
Roger Garrett Noah's Friend
Jordon Hahn Noah's Friend
Francesca Hilton Noah's Friend
Julie Robinson Noah's Friend
Jennifer Walker Noah's Friend
Sheila Oaks Sister In Law
Wendy Girard Girl at the Party

Crew View all

Director Henry Jaglom
Writer Henry Jaglom
Producer Bert Schneider
Photography Richard C. Kratina

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Notes

Part of: America Lost and Found - The BBS Story boxset

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences-namely, young people-and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community. The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set-works that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place), all created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id.

A Safe Place
One of the discoveries of the groundbreaking production company BBS was director Henry Jaglom. The fiercely idiosyncratic filmmaker-who would go on to have a decades-spanning career making independently produced female character studies-was first revealed to the film world with A Safe Place. In this delicate, introspective drama, laced with fantasy elements, Tuesday Weld stars as a fragile young woman in New York, unable to reconcile her ambiguous past with her unmoored present; Orson Welles as an enchanting Central Park magician and Jack Nicholson as a mysterious ex-lover round out the cast.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
Audio commentary featuring director Henry Jaglom
Henry Jaglom Finds “A Safe Place,” a 2009 video piece in which the director discusses the film
Notes on the New York Film Festival, a 1971 video interview with Jaglom and director Peter Bogdanovich
Outtakes and screen tests
Theatrical trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

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