Welcome to the


AVRC Library Catalogue

Local hero /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3069BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Series: Criterion collection ; 994.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681436364
  • 1681436361
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .L58 2019b
  • PN1995.9.C55 L633 2019
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Michael Bradsell ; music, Mark Knopfler.
Cast: Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton MacKay, Peter Capaldi, Jennifer Black, Jenny Seagrove, Burt Lancaster.Summary: Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00375 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050309922

Title and credits from screen.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1983.

Wide screen (1.78:1 aspect ratio).

New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

Director-approved special edition features: commentary soundtrack with director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode, recorded in 2018; New conversation between Forsyth and film critic David Cairns; Shooting from heart, a 1985 documentary about the work of cinematographer Chris Menges; 1983 episode of The South Bank show, about the production of the film; The making of Local hero; I thought maybe I'd get to meet Alan Whicker, a 1983 interview with Forsyth; railer; plus, on insert, an essay by film scholar Jonathan Murray.

MPAA rating: PG.

Blu-ray; region A; 16:9 wide screen presentation; LPCM monaural.

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

English dialogue; optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.