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The Prestige /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 50651 | Buena Vista Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: [Burbank, California] : Touchstone Home Entertainment, [2007]Distributor: Burband, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0788868853
  • 9780788868856
Other title:
  • At head of title: Touchstone Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present
Uniform titles:
  • Prestige (Motion picture)
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Priest, Christopher, 1943- Prestige
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S87 P7478544 2007
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Wally Pfister ; editor, Lee Smith ; music, David Julyan ; costume designer, Joan Bergin ; production designer, Nathan Crowley.
Awards:
  • SFX Award for Best Film Director, 2007.
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis, Piper Perabo, David Bowie, Roger Rees, Edward Hibbert, Ricky Jay.Summary: In turn-of-the-century Victorian London, charismatic showman Robert Angier and gifted illusionist Alfred Borden are two young magicians whose friendship is destroyed when the love of Angier's life dies in a trick gone wrong. Their rivalry escalates into an obsession full of deceit and sabotage. When Borden's "transported man" trick becomes famous, Angier will go to any length to top it, even pursuing a fantastic and frightening machine developed by Nicola Tesla
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02717 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050193711

Title from disc surface.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.

Based on the novel by Christopher Priest.

Widescreen 2.35:1.

Special features include: "The director's notebook: the cinematic sleight of hand of Christopher Nolan," containing five featurettes: "Conjuring the past," "The visual maze," "Metaphors of deception," "Tesla: the man who invented the Twentieth Century" and "Resonances;" the art of The prestige gallery.

For private home use only.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for violence and disturbing images.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, digitally mastered.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue, with optional French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

SFX Award for Best Film Director, 2007.

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