Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The adventures of Baron Munchausen / The Criterion Collection presents ; screenplay, Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam ; director, Terry Gilliam.

Edition:

2 Blu-ray edition.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]

Description:

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

4 3/4 in.

burning

digital

optical

1.85:1

wide screen

video file

Blu-ray

auditory captions

Summary:

The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle born of a famously turbulent production follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from faraway lands to the moon to the belly of a sea monster and beyond, meanwhile waging battle against a vengeful sultan and the tyranny of logic.

Series:

Criterion collection.

Subjects:

Münchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von, Baron, 1720-1797 -- Drama.

Hot air balloons -- Drama.

Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Schühly, Thomas, 1951-

McKeown, Charles, screenwriter.

Gilliam, Terry, screenwriter, film director.

Neville, John, 1925-2011, actor.

Polley, Sarah, actor.

Idle, Eric, actor.

Williams, Robin, 1951-2014, actor.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher, presenter.

Other Title:

Aventures du Baron de Munchausen

Notes:

Title from sell sheet.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1989.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Special features: Audio commentary featuring Gilliam and charles McKeown; documentary of the making of the film; new video essay by David Cairns; behind-the-scenes footage; deleted scenes; storyboards for unfilmed scenes; original marketing materials; Miracle of flight (1974); episode of The South Bank show from 1991; essay by Michael Koresky.

John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Robin Williams, Jonathan Pryce.

Blu-ray, wide screen (1.85:1); 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)

ISBN:

9798886070057

9786318912655 : BRHD

6318912657 : BRHD

Publisher Number:

CC3429BD

Other Number:

1350612297

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

992112

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Adventur