Overlord (film)
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| Directed by | Stuart Cooper |
| Produced by | James Quinn |
| Written by | Stuart Cooper Christopher Hudson |
| Starring | Brian Stirner Davyd Harries |
| Music by | Paul Glass |
| Cinematography | John Alcott |
| Editing by | Jonathan Gili |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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Overlord is a 1975 film by Stuart Cooper. Set around the D-Day invasion ('Operation Overlord'), it's a war film about a young soldier's meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death.
About half of Overlord is contemporary footage shot for the film, and about half of it is archival footage from British training missions and the invasion itself. Cooper and his cinematographer, John Alcott, strove to create a consistent look when filming the contemporary footage, and to this end they employed old film stock and WWII-era military camera lenses.
The film originally failed to get US theatrical distribution, and was only shown there in select screenings and on television. In 2006, the film saw its first US release through Janus Films, and in early 2008 a re-mastered edition was re-released in cinemas (on 1 February, with a launch at the Institute of Contemporary Arts) and on DVD (on March 3) in the UK.
It was released as part of the Criterion Collection in 2007.[1][2]
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[edit] External links
- Overlord at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website
- Cooper, Stuart. "A camera instead of a rifle", The Guardian, 18 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-02.
- A synopsis of the film from the Brattle Theater blog
- SFGate article on the rediscovery of the film
