Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

No such thing [videorecording] / United Artists Films presents an American Zoetrope production in association with the Icelandic Film Corporation and True Fiction Pictures, a film by Hal Hartley ; producers, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Hal Hartley, Cecilia Kate Roque ; written & directed by Hal Hartley.

Edition:

Widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2002], c2001.

Description:

1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Beatrice works at a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a producer eager for something different. The producer sends her camera crew to Iceland in search of something new and unusual, but the show's crew doesn't survive their first encounter with the local monster, and Beatrice is sent to find out what happened to them. She ends up taking on the reclusive monster and takes him from the remote island and brings him into the media spotlight in New York City.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

Monsters -- Iceland -- Drama.

Television broadcasting of news -- Drama.

Feature films.

Thrillers (Motion pictures)

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel -- Drama.

Other Author:

Friðrik Þór Friðriksson.

Hartley, Hal, 1959-

Roque, Cecilia Kate.

Polley, Sarah.

Burke, Robert (Robert John)

Mirren, Helen.

Baltasar Kormákur, 1966-

Lazar, Paul, 1950-

Peterson, Annika.

Christie, Julie, 1941-

Spiller, Michael, 1961-

Hamilton, Steve.

Stefánsdóttir, Helga I.

Jóhannsson, Árni Páll.

Rappaport, Mark.

United Artists (Firm)

American Zoetrope (Firm)

Icelandic Film Corporation.

True Fiction Pictures.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.

Director of photography, Michael Spiller ; editor, Steve Hamilton ; music, Hal Hartley ; costume designer, Helga I. Stefánsdóttir ; production designer, Árni Páll Jóhannsson ; make-up effects, Mark Rappaport.

Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren, Baltasar Kormákur, Paul Lazar, Annika Peterson, Julie Christie.

Also issued on VHS.

DVD, Dolby digital, 5.1 surround.

English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles.

ISBN:

0792852850

9780792852858

Publisher Number:

1003588

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

186270

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE No such

Medium:

[videorecording]