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Title:

Scanners [DVD] / director, David Cronenberg.

Format:

[DVD] /

Edition:

[Criterion collection].

Publisher:

Publisher not identified,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

2 videodiscs (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Telepathy--Drama.
Psychic ability--Drama.
Corporations--Drama.
Feature films.
Horror films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD videodisc.

Other Authors:

Cronenberg, David, 1943-, film director.
McGoohan, Patrick, 1928-2009, actor.
O'Neill, Jennifer, 1948-, actor.
Lack, Stephen, actor.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Title from web page. Originally released as a motion picture in 1981. 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. Patrick McGoohan, Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack.

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.

Series:

Criterion collection ; #712

ISBN:

1604658673
9781604658675

UPC:

715515120012

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)