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Scanners / Pierre David and Victor Solnicki present ; a David Cronenberg film ; produced by Claude Heroux ; written and directed by David Cronenberg ; a Filmplan International production.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 025 563 DVD 1-2 + booklet
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 712.
- Criterion collection ; 712
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telepathy--Drama.
- Telepathy.
- Psychic ability--Drama.
- Psychic ability.
- Corporations--Drama.
- Corporations.
- Genre:
- Horror films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Canadian.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (103 min.) : monaural, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (14 pages ; 17 cm).
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Dual-format edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y. ] : Criterion Collection [2014]
- Language Note:
- In English with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, widescreen (1.78:1); monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file DVD video Region 1
- Summary:
- After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
- Contents:
- disc 1. Feature film
- disc 2. Special features.
- Participant:
- Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawruence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert Silverman.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Mark Irwin; edited by Ronald Sanders; music by Howard Shore.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.
- Originally packaged as Blu-ray and DVD combo pack.
- Produced with the participation of the Canadian Film Development Corporation.
- Special features: The "Scanners" way, new documentary on the film's special effects, featuring interviews with Cronenberg's collaborators; Mental saboteur, a new interview with actor Michael Ironside; The Ephemerol diaries, a 2012 interview with actor and artist Stephen Lack; Excerpt from a 1981 interview with Cronenberg on the CBC's "The Bob McLean show"; trailer and radio spots; Plus: an essay by critic Kim Newman.
- ISBN:
- 9781604658408
- 1604658401
- OCLC:
- 894517797
- Publisher Number:
- 715515116916
- CC2358BDDVD Criterion
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