Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Ragtime / Dino De Laurentiis presents a Milos Forman film ; a Sunley production ; screenplay by Michael Weller ; produced by Dino De Laurentiis ; directed by Milos Forman.

Publisher, Date:

[Wilmington, NC] : Dino de Laurentiis Company, [1981]

[London] : Sunley Productions Ltd., [1981]

[Hollywood, Calif.] : Paramount Pictures, [2004]

Description:

1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital optical

widescreen version

DVD-Video NTSC

video file DVD Video region 1

Summary:

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG.

Series:

Widescreen DVD collection

Widescreen DVD collection.

Subjects:

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015. Ragtime -- Film adaptations.

Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015. Ragtime -- Drama.

Emotions -- Drama.

Ragtime music -- Drama.

Racism -- Drama.

America -- History -- Drama.

New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures -- 1910 -- Drama.

Genre:

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Forman, Miloš, director.

De Laurentiis, Dino, producer.

Weller, Michael, 1942- screenwriter.

Cagney, James, 1899-1986, actor.

Dourif, Brad, 1950- actor.

Gunn, Moses, 1929-1993, actor.

McGovern, Elizabeth, 1961- actor.

McMillan, Kenneth, 1932-1989, actor.

Newman, Randy. composer.

Ondříček, Miroslav, 1934-2015, cinematographer.

Coates, Anne V., editor of a moving image work.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.

Special features: Remembering Ragtime; commentary by Milos Forman and Michael Hausman; deleted scenes.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.

Music, Randy Newman; director of photography, Miroslav Ondricek; film editor, Anne V. Coates.

James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital; closed captioned.

Includes audio tracks in English and French with subtitles in English.

Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Nude statue -- Abandoned baby -- Murder in Madison Square -- The Thaw defense -- Silhouette maker -- Steady work -- Escorting Evelyn -- The baby's father -- By reason of insanity -- Suing for divorce -- Mr. Walker's intentions -- Emerald Isle volunteers -- Legal means -- Firefight -- Message to Coalhouse -- The Morgan Museum -- The baron and the movie star -- Commissioner Waldo -- Booker T. Washington -- Pictures from the light -- Turning over Willie -- Arranging a swap -- New model T.

ISBN:

0792173201

9780792173205

Publisher Number:

01486

Other Number:

56946497

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

797090

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Ragtime