Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Insignificance [videorecording] / Zenith in association with The Recorded Picture Company presents a film by Nicolas Roeg ; screenplay written by Terry Johnson ; produced by Jeremy Thomas ; directed by Nicolas Roeg.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Criterion Collection, 2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Summary:

Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 566.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 566.

Subjects:

Johnson, Terry, 1955- -- Film adaptations.

Monroe, Marilyn, 1926-1962 -- Drama.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 -- Drama.

McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Drama.

DiMaggio, Joe, 1914-1999 -- Drama.

Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States -- Drama.