Product Details

• Actors: Susan Berman, Willem Dafoe, J. Don Ferguson, Brad Rijn, Richard Hell
• Directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery, Susan Seidelman
• Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery, Susan Seidelman, Peter Askin, Ron Nyswaner
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Blue Underground
• DVD Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Run Time: 175 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000E41MU4
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #110,911 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Smithereens/The Loveless" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The New York Times (SMITHEREENS)

"Funny & Eccentric!"

Product Description

SMITHEREENS
Filmmaker Susan Seidelman rocked the movie industry with this daring and quirky story of Wren (Susan Berman), a self-promoting Jersey girl desperate to break into the downtown Manhattan music scene. But with no money and no talent, she bounces between a nice guy artist (Brad Rinn) who lives in his van and an arrogant musician (Punk icon Richard Hell) who lives off of anyone who will let him. SMITHEREENS - which also marked the debut of Oscar(r) nominated screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (PHILADELPHIA) and features a score by beloved cult band The Feelies - remains a remarkable timecapsule of the early '80s East Village scene and made history as the first American independent film invited to compete for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

THE LOVELESS
Willem Dafoe made his unforgettable movie debut as the leader of a '50s biker gang lost in a world of black leather, bad girls and sudden violence in the independent hit that marked the emergence of one of modern cinema's most important woman directors. Rockabilly icon Robert Gordon co-stars in this evocative drama co-written and co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow (NEAR DARK, POINT BREAK) and Monty Montgomery (producer of WILD AT HEART and TWIN PEAKS) with a too-cool soundtrack featuring original music by Robert Gordon and John Lurie. Hailed as 'the thinking man's biker movie,' THE LOVELESS now features a stunning new transfer from original negative materials and an exclusive audio commentary with Bigelow, Montgomery and Willem Dafoe.

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Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Cool 80s Nostalgia, July 7, 2009

By	S. Regos (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I remember both of these pics from when they came out (in fact to this day I have a signed poster of The Loveless hanging in my living room; producer Monty Montgomery was a friend of a friend and he and Willem Dafoe signed it for me). The Loveless is cool more for the fact that it's got a young Willem Dafoe, Robert Gordon and motorcycles; it's got a laconic pace, I have to be in the mood to watch it. Smithereens is fun to watch, especially if you lived during that time/scene. It's so dang authentic and really holds up over time, as much as Penelope Speeris's "Suburbia," which was filmed with real people, not actors. Richard Hell is a riot and it was nice to see him (and the lead actress) in a special feature that was shot in recent years.