Videodrome

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Publisher
Criterion Collection
Publication Date
[2004]
Language
English

Description

A cable TV executive discovers an underground TV show called Videodrome, a hyperviolent torture show. His quest to find the origin of the show may result in the loss of his sanity.

Table of Contents

From the DVD - Widescreen ed.

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.

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