Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Ask the dust / Paramount Classics presents in association with Capitol Films ; a Cruise/Wagner production ; a VIP Medienfonds 3 production ; an Ascendant production ; executive producer, Redmond Morris ; executive producers, Mark Roemmich, David Selvan ; executive producers, Andreas Schmid, Andy Grosch, Chris Roberts ; produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner ; produced by Don Granger, Jonas McCord ; written for the screen and directed by Robert Towne.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2006]

[Burbank, California] : Warner Home Video, [2006]

Description:

1 videodisc (116 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

laser optical NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets Camilla, who is hoping to marry a rich American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for some sexuality, nudity and language CHV rating: 14A.

Subjects:

Fante, John, 1909-1983 -- Film adaptations.

Man-woman relationships -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama.

Mexican American women -- Cultural assimilation -- Drama.

Italian Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Drama.

Nineteen thirties -- Drama.

Melodrama, American.

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Melodrama, American. ft

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Drama.

Other Author:

Towne, Robert, screenwriter, film director.

Morris, Redmond., film producer.

Roemmich, Mark, film producer.

Selvan, David (Producer), film producer.

Schmid, Andreas (Producer), film producer.

Grosch, Andreas, film producer.

Roberts, Chris, 1968- film producer.

Cruise, Tom, 1962- film producer.

Wagner, Paula, 1946- film producer.

Granger, Don (Producer), film producer.

McCord, Jonas, film producer.

Farrell, Colin, 1976- actor.

Hayek, Salma, 1966- actor.

Sutherland, Donald, 1935-2024 actor.

Atkins, Eileen, 1934- actor.

Menzel, Idina, actor.

Kirk, Justin, actor.

Djawadi, Ramin, composer (expression)

Pereira, Heitor, composer (expression)

Wolsky, Albert, costume designer.

Lambert, Robert K., film editor.

Gassner, Dennis, production designer.

Deschanel, Caleb, 1944- director of photography.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Fante, John, 1909-1983. Ask the dust.

Paramount Classics (Firm), production company.

Capitol Films, production company.

Cruise/Wagner Productions (Firm), production company.

VIP 3 Medienfonds, production company.

Ascendant Pictures (Firm), production company.

Paramount Pictures Corporation, production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor.

Notes:

Based on the novel by John Fante.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.

Special features: Commentary by director Robert Towne and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel; The making of Ask the dust; Theatrical trailer; Previews.

Music by Ramin Djawadi & Heitor Pereira ; costume designer, Albert Wolsky ; edited by Robert K. Lambert ; production designer, Dennis Gassner ; director of photography, Caleb Deschanel.

Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel, Justin Kirk.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, 2.0 surround.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

1415721319

9781415721315

Publisher Number:

34414

34417

Other Number:

68571792

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

537014

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Ask the