Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Polyester / Robert Shaye and Michael White presents ; a John Waters film ; New Line Productions ; produced, written & directed by John Waters.

Edition:

Director-approved special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2019]

Description:

1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

stamping

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

For his first studio picture, John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart, until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R.

Series:

Criterion collection 995.

Criterion collection ; 995.

Subjects:

Housewives -- United States -- Drama.

Dysfunctional families -- Drama.

Genre:

Subculture films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Waters, John, 1946- film producer, screenwriter, film director.

Shaye, Robert, film producer.

White, Michael, 1936-2016, film producer.

Divine, 1945-1988, actor.

Hunter, Tab, 1931-2018, actor.

Massey, Edith, actor.

Stein, Chris, 1950- composer (expression)

Kamen, Michael, composer (expression)

New Line Productions, Inc., production company.

Notes:

Originally released as motion picture in 1981.

Features: Audio commentary featuring Waters from the 1993 Criterion release of the film; new conversation between Waters and critic Michael Musto; new program featuring interviews with Waters collaborators; interviews from 1993 with cast and crew members; archival interviews; deleted scenes and alternate takes; trailer.

Editor, Charles Roggero ; music, Chris Stein, Michael Kamen ; director of photography, David Insley.

Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, David Samson, Mary Garlington, Ken King, Mink Stole, Joni Ruth White, Hans Kramm, Stiv Bators.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, wide screen (1.85:1).

In English with optional English subtitles.

ISBN:

9781681436395

1681436396

Publisher Number:

CC3068DDVD

Other Number:

1109846685

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

805259

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Polyeste