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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (32 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
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Criterion collection #1179
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1968
Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence
Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio)
Special features: new 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Peter Bogdanovich; audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich; new interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater; introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich; audio excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt at the American Film Institute; in booklet, an essay by critic Adam Nayman and excerpts from an interview with Bogdanovich from Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin's 1969 book The director's event: interviews with five American film-makers
Director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs ; editor, Peter Bogdanovich
Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Arthur Peterson, Mary Jackson, Tanya Morgan, Sandy Baron
Blu-ray; region A; wide screen; English LPCM mono; requires Blu-ray player
Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH)