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Cronos /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 229468002 | The Criterion CollectionCC1944D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Spanish, English Original language: Spanish, English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 551.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: Director-approved DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (92 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604651836
  • 1604651830
Uniform titles:
  • Cronos (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .C87 2010
  • PN1995.9.F67 C76 2010
NLM classification:
  • 229468002
Other classification:
  • IQ 12192
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; production designer, Tolita Figueroa ; music, Javier Álvarez ; editor, Raúl Dávalos ; special effects, Laurencio Cordero.
  • Transfer credits: producer, Curtis Tsui ; director of production, Angie Buckness ; art directors, Sarah Habibi, Erick Skillman ; editorial director, Elizabeth Helfgott.
Awards:
  • Ariel Awards, 1993 [Mexico's premiere film awards]: Golden Ariel (Guillermo del Toro); Cannes Film Festival, 1993: Mercedes-Benz Award (Guillermo del Toro)
Cast: Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath.Summary: In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst for human blood. Elsewhere in the city, a dying industrialist obtains the alchemist's journal, learns of the device, and imports his American nephew to track down and obtain the device, by force if necessary. Señor Gris can grasp the gift of time, but the cost is high. Can he keep his soul intact faced with such great temptation, or will he be overcome?
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02357 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 1605018531X

Title from title frame.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992.

Special features: Commentaries [optional audio] by writer-director Guillermo del Toro or producers, Arthur H. Gorson, Bertha Navarro, and Alejandro Springall [English and Spanish]; Featurettes Geometria [short film] (7 min.); Geometria: Interview [with Guillermo del Toro] (7 min.); Welcome to Bleak House (10 min.); Interviews: Guillermo del Toro (18 min.); Guillermo Navarro (13 min.); Ron Perlman (8 min.); Federico Luppi (6 min.) [Spanish with English subtitles]; Stills gallery [slide show]; Trailer (2 min.); Optional Spanish theatrical voice-over introduction [audio feature]; booklet includes essay "Beautiful Dark Things" by Maitland McDonagh, and excerpts from the director's notes for "Cronos."

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen presentation (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital stereo.

Soundtrack in Spanish with occasional English dialogue; optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Ariel Awards, 1993 [Mexico's premiere film awards]: Golden Ariel (Guillermo del Toro); Cannes Film Festival, 1993: Mercedes-Benz Award (Guillermo del Toro)

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