Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Snowpiercer / Radius-TWC, the Weinstein Company and CJ Entertainment present ; in association with Union Investment Partners ; producers, Tae Sung Jeong, Steven Nam ; produced by Park Chan-Wook, Lee Tae Hun ; screen story by Bong Joon Ho ; screenplay by Bong Joon Ho and Kelly Masterson ; directed by Bong Joon Ho.

Publisher, Date:

Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2014]

Description:

2 videodiscs (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

laser optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive rich and powerful ride.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R; for violence, language and drug content.

Subjects:

Railroad trains -- Drama.

Social classes -- Drama.

Disasters -- Drama.

Feature films.

Action and adventure films.

Science fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Pong, Chun-ho, 1969- film director.

Evans, Chris, 1981- actor.

Swinton, Tilda, actor.

Bell, Jamie, 1986- actor.

Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.

RADiUS TWC (Firm)

Weinstein Company.

Union Investment Partners.

CJ Ent'ŏt'einmŏnt'ŭ (Firm)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2013.

Special features: Critics' commentary hosted by Scott Weinbert; The birth of Snowpiercer; The characters; animated prologue; Concept art galleries; Chris Evans & Tilda Swinton on Snowpiercer; The train brought to life: behind the scenes of a special screening; Transper ceneige: from the blank page to the black screen.

Music by Marco Baltrami.

Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Ed Harris.

DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

English or Korean dialogue; Spanish or English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN:

9786315639470 : DVD

631563947X : DVD

Publisher Number:

WC62262

Other Number:

890237646

System Availability:

7

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

7

Control Number:

447874

# Local items in:

6

# System items in:

6

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Snowpier