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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1604D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 248.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2004]Description: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (39 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1559409525
  • 9781559409520
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S26 V54 2004
NLM classification:
  • CC1604D
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll10
Online resources:
Contents:
Disc 1. Film : Wake-up call -- Max Renn -- Something tough -- The Rena King Show -- Transmissions from Pittsburgh -- "Got any porno?" -- Subterranean connections -- "It has a philosophy" -- Cathode Ray MIssion -- Hallucinations begin -- Brian O'Blivion -- "Careful. It bites." -- Perceptions of reality -- Barry Convex -- Rude awakening -- "Savage new times" -- Handgun -- Assassin -- Reprogrammed -- "See you in Pittsburgh" -- Death to Videodrome -- "Long live the new flesh" -- Extras : Audio commentaries : David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin; James Woods and Deborah Harry -- Camera, a short film written and directed by Cronenberg, starring Les Carlson (2000) (7 min.).
Disc 2. Supplements : Forging the new flesh / Michael Lennick [Documentary on video and prosthetic makeup effects] (28 min.) -- Effects men [Audio interview with Rick Baker, creator of special makeup effects and Lennick] (min.) -- Bootleg video [Three short films seen on television in the film, including Samurai dreams] (17 min.) -- Fear on film [Roundtable discussion from 1982 with directors Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter] (26 min.) -- Marketing [trailers, making of documentary, stills galleries] (12 min.) -- Stills galleries [special effects, cast & crew].
Booklet : Make mine Cronenberg / Carrie Ricks -- Medium cruel: reflections on Videodrome / Tim Lucas -- That slithery sense of unreality / Gary Indiana.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mark Irwin ; edited by Ronald Sanders ; original music by Howard Shore ; special makeup designed and created by Rick Baker.
Cast: James Woods (Max Renn), Sonja Smits (Bianca O'Blivion), Deborah Harry (Nicki Brand), Peter Dvorsky (Harlan), Les Carlson (Barry Convex), Jack Creley (Brian O'Blivion), Lynne Gorman (Masha).Summary: When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-01981 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050181551

Originally produced as a Canadian/United States motion picture in 1982.

Disc 1. Film : Wake-up call -- Max Renn -- Something tough -- The Rena King Show -- Transmissions from Pittsburgh -- "Got any porno?" -- Subterranean connections -- "It has a philosophy" -- Cathode Ray MIssion -- Hallucinations begin -- Brian O'Blivion -- "Careful. It bites." -- Perceptions of reality -- Barry Convex -- Rude awakening -- "Savage new times" -- Handgun -- Assassin -- Reprogrammed -- "See you in Pittsburgh" -- Death to Videodrome -- "Long live the new flesh" -- Extras : Audio commentaries : David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin; James Woods and Deborah Harry -- Camera, a short film written and directed by Cronenberg, starring Les Carlson (2000) (7 min.).

Disc 2. Supplements : Forging the new flesh / Michael Lennick [Documentary on video and prosthetic makeup effects] (28 min.) -- Effects men [Audio interview with Rick Baker, creator of special makeup effects and Lennick] (min.) -- Bootleg video [Three short films seen on television in the film, including Samurai dreams] (17 min.) -- Fear on film [Roundtable discussion from 1982 with directors Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter] (26 min.) -- Marketing [trailers, making of documentary, stills galleries] (12 min.) -- Stills galleries [special effects, cast & crew].

Booklet : Make mine Cronenberg / Carrie Ricks -- Medium cruel: reflections on Videodrome / Tim Lucas -- That slithery sense of unreality / Gary Indiana.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital Mono 1.0, widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound, enhanced for widescreen televisions.

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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