Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 4 of 19
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
archive
ArchiveBlu-ray

Title Cooley High / Samuel Z. Arkoff presents a Steve Krantz production ; written by Eric Monte ; produced by Steve Krantz ; directed by Michael Schultz.

Publication Info. [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2022]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual  BLU-RAY COOLEY    Check Shelf
Edition Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
digital rdatr
optical rdarm
mono rdacpc
LPCM rdaspc
video file rdaft
Blu-ray
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection ; 1165
Criterion collection ; 1165.
System Details Blu-ray; region A; 16:9 wide screen; PCM mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Note Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH).
Title from container.
Cast Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis.
Credits Director of photography, Paul vom Brack ; editor, Christopher Holmes ; music, Freddie Perren.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Wide screen.
New restored 4K digital transfer approved by the director.
Audience MPAA rating: PG.
Summary Chicago, 1964: it's the last weeks of high school for aspiring poet Preach and his best friend, Cochise, and they have a full slate of extracurricular activities: swinging dance parties, late-night joyrides, and the stumbling pursuit of romance. Of course, when you're a young Black man in America, your coming-of-age story is far from complication-free. With Cooley High, director Michael Schultz and screenwriter Eric Monte, who drew on his own experiences growing up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project, arrived at something truly unique in 1970s cinema: an endearingly funny, tender, and authentic portrait of Black teens striving toward a brighter tomorrow, brought to life by a dynamic ensemble cast and set to a heavenly hit parade of Motown classics.
Note Bonus features: conversation between Schultz and film scholar Racquel J. Gates; making of featurette; panel discussion from the 2019 tribute to Cooley High at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, featuring Schultz, actor-filmmaker Robert Townsend, casting director Gloria Schultz, and actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Garrett Morris ; an essay by critic Craigh Barboza.
Language English dialogue.
Subject African American high school students -- Drama.
Poor teenagers -- Drama.
Male friendship -- Drama.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Drama.
African American high school students. (OCoLC)fst00799193
Men's friendships.
Genre/Form Comedy films. (OCoLC)fst01710291
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Schultz, Michael, 1938- film director.
Krantz, Steve, 1923-2007, film producer.
Monte, Eric, screenwriter.
Arkoff, Samuel Z., 1918-2001, presenter.
Turman, Glynn, actor.
Hilton-Jacobs, Lawrence, 1953- actor.
Morris, Garrett, 1937- actor.
Davis, Cynthia (Actress), actor.
Vom Brack, Paul, director of photography.
Holmes, Christopher (Christopher V.), editor of moving image work.
Perren, Freddie, composer (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
ISBN 9798886070026
Standard No. 715515280013
Music No. CC3426BD The Criterion Collection
-->
Add a Review