The Landlord R
Watch the landlord get his.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 14, 2019
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands & Pearl Bailey | |
Performer: | Walter Brooke, Louis Gossett, Jr., Marki Bey, Mel Stewart, Susan Anspach, Will Mackenzie, Oliver Clark, Trish Van Devere, Hector Elizondo, Marlene Clark, Gloria Hendry & Robert Klein | |
Directed by | Hal Ashby | |
Screenplay by | Bill Gunn | |
Composition by | Al Kooper | |
Produced by | Norman Jewison | |
Director of Photography: | Gordon Willis |
Entertainment Reviews:
The Landlord remains one of the funniest social comedies of the period, as well as the most human.
Village Voice
It's a compelling and adventurous spectacle, which feels simultaneously like a time capsule and a crucial influence on such recent films as The Royal Tenenbaums and Half Nelson.
Salon.com
THE LANDLORD, Ashby's first film, is both wickedly funny and filled with gruff tenderness for the city and its people.
New York Times
[T]he film is capable of real subtlety...
Sight and Sound
The Landlord succeeds thanks to terrific performances, political nous, flawless photography from Gordon Willis, a handful of sublimely witty moments and an overall sense of rebellious fun.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
It adds up to a more honest, if less optimistic, portrait of American race relations than we usually see in the movies.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B+ --
Hal Ashby's feature directing debut is a poignant social satire about racial tensions in New York, extremely well acted by Beau Bridges and Lee Grant in an Oscar-nominated role.
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Product Description:
Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges), a rich but good-hearted dilettante, buys a tenement building in a run-down part of Brooklyn. He wants, with no evil intent, to evict all the African American tenants and rip out all the floors so he can hang gigantic works of art in his new home. When he moves into an empty apartment he meets the tenants, a colorful collection of 1960s types. Pearl Bailey and Lou Gossett stand out in their small roles. When Elgar starts to make repairs to the tenant's apartments, he slowly becomes involved with their lives. He becomes romantically involved with a married tenant, Fanny (Diana Sands), and a dancer, Lanie (Marki Bey), whom he meets at a local bar. This is contrasted with his interactions with his stiff upper-crust family, dominated by his mother (Lee Grant). Her visit to the tenement results in a delightfully comic scene with Bailey.
Directed by Hal Ashby, beautifully shot by Gordon Willis, and produced by Norman Jewison (for whom Ashby had edited IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), this first feature by Ashby clearly shows his attraction to offbeat material, which would reach an apogee in HAROLD AND MAUDE, but it is also one of the few real attempts from this time period to explore, in a multifaceted manner, the issues of race and class in America. The film is based on the novel by Kristin Hunter.
Directed by Hal Ashby, beautifully shot by Gordon Willis, and produced by Norman Jewison (for whom Ashby had edited IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT), this first feature by Ashby clearly shows his attraction to offbeat material, which would reach an apogee in HAROLD AND MAUDE, but it is also one of the few real attempts from this time period to explore, in a multifaceted manner, the issues of race and class in America. The film is based on the novel by Kristin Hunter.
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