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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1934BD | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection ; 248.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. 1 booklet (36 pages : color. illustrations ; 16 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781604653212
  • 1604653213
Other title:
  • At head of title: David Cronenberg's
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .V54 2010
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Mark Irwin ; art director, Carol Spier ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; costume designer, Delphine White.
Cast: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Reiner Schwartz.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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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00416 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050314357

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.

Special features: two audio commentaries, one with David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin, and one with Deborah Harry and James Woods; a short film, Camera, written and directed by Cronenberg; Forging the new flesh, a documentary featurette by Michael Lennick about the creation of Videodrome's video and makeup effects; Effest men, an audio interview with makeup creator Baker and video effects supervisor Lennick; Bootleg video: the complete footage of Samurai dreams and seven minutes of transmissions from Videodrome in original, unedited form with commentaries; Fear on film, a 26-minute roundtable discussion from 1982 with filmmaker Cronenberg and others; original theatrical trailers and promotional featurette; still galleries featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production photos, special effects makeup tests, and publicity photos.

MPAA rating: R.

1 Blu-ray disc, region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); monaural.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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