A Dry White Season (1989)

[Scottie]

A Dry White Summer (1989)

With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa’s racist government—and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal repression comes crashing down on his gardener (Winston Ntshona), bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities. Based on a celebrated novel by André Brink and rooted in the first-hand research the Martinican Palcy did in South Africa into the way black people lived under apartheid, A Dry White Season is unflinching in its depiction of violence and its chronicling of injustice, making for a galvanizing tribute to those willing to sacrifice everything to fight oppression.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interview with director Euzhan Palcy by film critic Scott Foundas
• Five Scenes, a new program featuring Palcy
• Interview from 1989 with actor Donald Sutherland
• Excerpt from a 1995 interview Palcy conducted with Nelson Mandela
• Footage of Palcy receiving the highest distinction for foreign dignitaries at the 2017 South African National Orders awards
• PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and scholar Jyoti Mistry
• New cover by Adam Maida

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Thought this one would've went to Olive or MVD, but interesting choice though. And yes, this one needs a new transfer plus getting the original MGM logo with the MGM/UA byline (the DVD had a newer CGI version with a URL in it's place) it dat cherry on the ice cream sundae!

[tomkatholic]

No longer starring Marlon Brando, apparently

[Alfred E. Neumann]

Originally Posted by tomkatholic

No longer starring Marlon Brando, apparently

Cameo.

[tomkatholic]

*Oscar-nominated supporting role

[Member-275053]

First Criterion release directed by a black woman. Day one pick up!

[Raven_Sky]

Will be added to my collection.

[gates70]

This sounds really interesting, so I'm blind buying!

[SpaceBlackKnight]

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...on_blu-ray.htm

DVD Beaver caps look pretty good with decent compression.

Can't wait till I get mine the 12th!

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by tomkatholic

No longer starring Marlon Brando, apparently

Well, he did try to take his name off the picture after disowning it because he hated the final cut. Maybe he finally got his way...

[mvfragnito]

Originally Posted by tomkatholic

*Oscar-nominated supporting role

*Oscar nominated cameo

he probably got nominated because it was him and it was his first screen appearance in some time. It's not a particularly memorable performance.

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by mvfragnito

*Oscar nominated cameo

Examples of cameos:

Glenn Close in Hook
Steven Spielberg in Austin Powers in Goldmember
Stan Lee in any MCU movie
Matt Damon and Sam Neill in Thor: Ragnarok
Sigourney Weaver in The Meyerowitz Stories
Brad Pitt in Deadpool 2
Michael Jackson in Men in Black 2
Julia Roberts in The Player

In A Dry White Season, Marlon Brando plays a lawyer whose purpose in the story is to show Donald Sutherland's naïve character that South African justice during the apartheid will not be served when blacks are the victim and whites are the accused.

Brando's is absolutely a supporting character, and a vital one at that.

[dentists]

Pretty average movie- great idea but boring to watch, Brando is the only reason to see this and he’s just ok in it.
The movie poster however was excellent and arty.
Only good thing about this was the poster!

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by dentists

Pretty average movie- great idea but boring to watch, Brando is the only reason to see this and he’s just ok in it.
The movie poster however was excellent and arty.
Only good thing about this was the poster!

Having just watched this for the first time, I have to disagree 100%. I was enthralled and invested in the film from start to finish. I thought it was an exceptional filmatic experience and not boring at all. Not sure what movie you were watching.