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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 1006502 | MGM Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, ©2004.Description: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

0792860756
9780792860754

Uniform titles:

Belly of an architect (Motion picture)

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.4372 21

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.F67 B455 2004

Contents:

Main title/Celebration -- Applause -- Discovering Boullée -- Blowing up the past -- Form, shape, function -- History lesson -- Positive -- Assignation -- Nose job -- Studio portrait -- Homage -- Change of plans -- Pen pal -- Metabolism -- Crucified -- Alpha & omega/Credits.

Production credits:

Director of photography, Sacha Vierny ; art director, Luciana Vedovelli ; editor, John Wilson ; music, Wim Mertens, Glenn Branca ; costume designer, Maurizio Millenotti ; architechture consultant, Costantino Dardi.

Cast: Brian Dennehy (Stourley Kracklite), Chloe Webb (Louisa Kracklite), Lambert Wilson (Caspasian Speckler), Sergio Fantoni (Io Speckler), Stefania Casini (Flavia Speckler), Vanni Corbellini (Frederico), Marino Mase (Trettorio), Enrica Maria Scrivano (Mother), Alfredo Varelli (Julio).Summary: Stourley Kracklite, a burly middle-aged American architect, is in Rome to organize a large-scale exhibition of the work of Etienne-Louis Boullee (1728-1799), a visionary French architect. His wife Louisa is along, and a little bored with his cerebral fixations. Surrounded by Roman art and architecture--whose perfect scaling and Classicist surfaces he has always admired--Kracklite is overcome by narcissistic jealousy. Amidst the graceful clean domes, virile statues, and sturdily parallel columns of Roman monuments, Kracklite suspects Louisa of trying to poison him as his prodigious gut begins giving him searing pains. Anxious and paranoid, he's undone by his fear that despite his internal inspirations, an architect is a speck of a thing compared to what he builds--huge, material spectacles that far outlive their progenitors.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-02444 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050190984

Originally produced as a British/Italian motion picture in 1987.

Special features: Theatrical trailer (3 min.).

MPAA Rating: Rated R (pervasive sexuality); Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital sound; anamorphic widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish; closed captioned.

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