Ivans Xtc. [Blu-ray]

Director: Bernard Rose Bernard Rose

Overview

Bernard Rose directed this look at the sordid underside of the film business and one man's attempts to come to terms with his mortality in this fallen world, in a story loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston), a hot-shot talent agent at the powerful Media Talent Agency, unexpectedly dies, and soon his colleagues are scrambling among themselves over the shards of Ivan's leftover business, with Barry Oaks (Adam Krentzman) eager to take over representation of Don West (Peter Weller), a major star Ivan signed shortly before his death. Everyone assumes that Ivan died of a drug overdose, but as viewers watch his last few days in flashback, they learn that Ivan was diagnosed with a severe case of lung cancer as he was trying to put together a deal with firebrand director Danny McTeague (James Merendino), actress Constanza Vero (Valeria Golino), and West. As the dynamic businessman is forced to confront his mortality, he is dragged into a binge of booze, drugs, and women with West, while he also tries to decide how to confront his family and his girlfriend Charlotte (Lisa Enos) with the grim news about his health. Ivansxtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) was shot using digital video equipment and a skeleton crew -- according to Rose, a reaction in part to studio interference over his 1997 adaptation of another Tolstoy work, Anna Karenina.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/29/2020
UPC:	0760137401384
Original Release:	2000
Rating:	NR
Source:	Arrow Video
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	37,598

Special Features

Theatrical Cut presented in two versions: the preferred Director's version and the Producer's version, with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio; Extended Producer's Cut with Stereo DTS-HD Master Audio, presented for the first time; Brand new Commentary for the Extended Cut with Co-Writer/Producer/Actor Lisa Enos and filmmaker Richard Wolsencroft; Charlotte's Story - a brand new documentary on the making of the film from Lisa Enos; Q&A with Lisa Enos, Director Bernard Rose, actors Danny Huston, Peter Weller and Adam Krentzman from a 2018 screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles; Archival Interviews with Lisa Enos and Bernard Rose from the 2001 Santa Barbara Film Festival; Extended Party Sequence Outtakes; Original Theatrical Trailer; Reversible sleeve featuring orignal and newy commissioned artwork by Peter Strain

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Danny Huston	Ivan Beckman
Peter Weller	Don West
James Merendino	Danny McTeague
Adam Krentzman	Barry Oaks
Lisa Enos	Charlotte White
Alison Taylor	Actor
Joanne Duckman	Marcia Beckman
Angela Featherstone	Amanda Hill
Caroleen Feeney	Rosemary Kramer
Valeria Golino	Constanza Vero
Heidi Markel	Francesca Knight
Tiffani Thiessen	Marie Stein
Jay Lavender	Phil
Tarri Markell	Agent
Adam Krentzmann	Actor

Technical Credits

Bernard Rose

Lisa Enos

Bernard Rose	Director,Screenwriter
Lisa Enos	Producer,Screenwriter
Cat Villiers	Executive Producer
Lisa Henson	Executive Producer
Stephen Nemeth	Executive Producer
Gerald Beg	Sound/Sound Designer
Elmo Webber	Sound/Sound Designer