Cassette has a long dry sticker stain over the title label on the spine and security stickers on all three sides except the gate, assuring you of first generation quality. Pre-viewed for quality and played great on my Panasonic vcr.

Unique oversized gatefold cover opens up to reveal the cast printed on the inside. Normal shelf wear around the corners and edges and is still in overall good shape. These big boxes are becoming increasingly harder to find in good shape and are suitable for display.

A movie company, especially if it's away from home on a location somewhere, is a family that's been thrown into close and sometimes desperate contact; strangers become friends and even intimates in a few weeks, and in a few more weeks they're torn apart, scattered to the next project. The family is complicated by the insecurities and egos of the actors, and by the movimaking process itself:

We see the result, but we don't see the hours and days spent on special effects ("DAY FOR NIGHT" is the technical term for "night" scenes shot in daylight with a special filter), stunts (we see the real Ms. Bisset climb a three story free standing ladder in a dress no less!), and on making it snow or making it rain or making an allegedly trained cat walk from A to B... until now.

DAY FOR NIGHT is about all of these aspects of moviemaking; about the technical problems, the boredom between takes, and about the romances and intrigues. The movie set is a microcosm: there is a pregnancy and a death; a love affair ended, another begun, and a third almost but not quite destroyed; and new careers to be nourished and old careers to be preserved.

At times the movie within a movie can be disorienting, are we in the real world or make-believe? And that's part of the fun of it all. It's a real behind-the-scenes look at how all these things are achieved behind the camera. The real life director, Francois Truffaut plays the director in the movie within this movie that just adds to the weirdness factor.

Oscar winner for Best Picture in the foreign film category.