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The Resource Videodrome, Universal ; Filmplan International Production ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude Héroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg, (videorecording)

Videodrome, Universal ; Filmplan International Production ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude Héroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg, (videorecording)

Label
Videodrome
Title
Videodrome
Statement of responsibility
Universal ; Filmplan International Production ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude Héroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
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
Member of
Cataloging source
IBI
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Mark Irwin ; edited by Ronald Sanders ; original music by Howard Shore ; special makeup designed and created by Rick Baker
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Not rated
Language note
Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PerformerNote
James Woods (Max Renn), Sonja Smits (Bianca O'Blivion), Deborah Harry (Nicki Brand), Peter Dvorsky (Harlan), Les Carlson (Barry Convex), Jack Creley (Brian O'Blivion), Lynne Gorman (Masha)
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1944-
  • 1943-
  • 1947-
  • 1958-
  • 1933-2014
  • 1926-2004
  • 1920-1989
  • 1950-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • David, Pierre
  • Solnicki, Victor
  • Héroux, Claude
  • Cronenberg, David
  • Woods, James
  • Smits, Sonja
  • Harry, Debbie
  • Dvorsky, Peter
  • Carlson, Leslie
  • Creley, Jack
  • Gorman, Lynne
  • Irwin, Mark
  • Shore, Howard
  • Universal Pictures (Firm)
  • Filmplan International (Firm)
  • Criterion Collection (Firm)
Runtime
89
Series statement
Criterion collection
Series volume
248
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Reality television programs
  • Cable television
  • Films de science-fiction
  • Longs métrages
  • Vidéos pour handicapés auditifs
Technique
live action
Label
Videodrome, Universal ; Filmplan International Production ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude Héroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg, (videorecording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Originally produced as a Canadian/United States motion picture in 1982
Accompanying material
1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Contents
  • Disc 1. Film : Wake-up call -- Max Renn -- Something tough -- The Rena King Show -- Transmissions from Pittsburgh -- "Got any porno?" -- Subterranean connections -- "It has a philosophy" -- Cathode Ray MIssion -- Hallucinations begin -- Brian O'Blivion -- "Careful. It bites." -- Perceptions of reality -- Barry Convex -- Rude awakening -- "Savage new times" -- Handgun -- Assassin -- Reprogrammed -- "See you in Pittsburgh" -- Death to Videodrome -- "Long live the new flesh" -- Extras : Audio commentaries : David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin; James Woods and Deborah Harry -- Camera, a short film written and directed by Cronenberg, starring Les Carlson (2000) (7 min.)
  • Disc 2. Supplements : Forging the new flesh / Michael Lennick [Documentary on video and prosthetic makeup effects] (28 min.) -- Effects men [Audio interview with Rick Baker, creator of special makeup effects and Lennick] (min.) -- Bootleg video [Three short films seen on television in the film, including Samurai dreams] (17 min.) -- Fear on film [Roundtable discussion from 1982 with directors Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter] (26 min.) -- Marketing [trailers, making of documentary, stills galleries] (12 min.) -- Stills galleries [special effects, cast & crew]
  • Booklet : Make mine Cronenberg / Carrie Ricks -- Medium cruel: reflections on Videodrome / Tim Lucas -- That slithery sense of unreality / Gary Indiana
Control code
ocm56430152
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
2 videodiscs (89 min.)
Isbn
9781559409520
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
sd., col.
Publisher number
CC1604D
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)56430152
System details
DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital Mono 1.0, widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound, enhanced for widescreen televisions
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Videodrome, Universal ; Filmplan International Production ; Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude Héroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg, (videorecording)
Publication
Note
Originally produced as a Canadian/United States motion picture in 1982
Accompanying material
1 booklet (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Contents
  • Disc 1. Film : Wake-up call -- Max Renn -- Something tough -- The Rena King Show -- Transmissions from Pittsburgh -- "Got any porno?" -- Subterranean connections -- "It has a philosophy" -- Cathode Ray MIssion -- Hallucinations begin -- Brian O'Blivion -- "Careful. It bites." -- Perceptions of reality -- Barry Convex -- Rude awakening -- "Savage new times" -- Handgun -- Assassin -- Reprogrammed -- "See you in Pittsburgh" -- Death to Videodrome -- "Long live the new flesh" -- Extras : Audio commentaries : David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin; James Woods and Deborah Harry -- Camera, a short film written and directed by Cronenberg, starring Les Carlson (2000) (7 min.)
  • Disc 2. Supplements : Forging the new flesh / Michael Lennick [Documentary on video and prosthetic makeup effects] (28 min.) -- Effects men [Audio interview with Rick Baker, creator of special makeup effects and Lennick] (min.) -- Bootleg video [Three short films seen on television in the film, including Samurai dreams] (17 min.) -- Fear on film [Roundtable discussion from 1982 with directors Cronenberg, John Landis, and John Carpenter] (26 min.) -- Marketing [trailers, making of documentary, stills galleries] (12 min.) -- Stills galleries [special effects, cast & crew]
  • Booklet : Make mine Cronenberg / Carrie Ricks -- Medium cruel: reflections on Videodrome / Tim Lucas -- That slithery sense of unreality / Gary Indiana
Control code
ocm56430152
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
2 videodiscs (89 min.)
Isbn
9781559409520
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
sd., col.
Publisher number
CC1604D
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)56430152
System details
DVD, Region 1, Dolby Digital Mono 1.0, widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, new high-definition digital transfer with restored image and sound, enhanced for widescreen televisions
Video recording format
DVD

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