Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

A brief history of time [videorecording] / Janus Films ; an Anglia Television & Gordon Freedman production ; an Errol Morris film ; produced by David Hickman ; directed by Errol Morris.

Edition:

Criterion collection.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Errol Morris (The Fog of War) turns his camera on one of the most fascinating men in the world: the pioneering astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, afflicted by a debilitating motor neuron disease that has left him without a voice or the use of his limbs. An adroitly crafted tale of personal adversity, professional triumph, and cosmological inquiry, Morris's documentary examines the way the collapse of Hawking's body has been accompanied by the untrammeled broadening of his imagination.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: G OFRB rating: PG.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 699

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 699.

Subjects:

Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018

Astrophysicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Cosmology.

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Morris, Errol, film director.

Hickman, David (Film director), film producer.

Bailey, John, 1942 August 10- cinematographer.

Czapsky, Stefan, cinematographer.

Fuller, Brad (Bradley), film editor.

Glass, Philip, composer (expression)

Bafaloukos, Ted, production designer.

Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018

Janus Films.

Anglia Television.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Sundance 1992 Filmmaker Trophy Documentary

Notes:

Based on the book by Stephen Hawking.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.

Special features: interview with director Errol Morris ; interview with cinematographer John Bailey ; booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt.

Directors of photography, John Bailey, Stefan Czapsky ; editor, Brad Fuller ; original music composed by Philip Glass ; music produced by Kurt Munkasci ; production designer, Ted Bafaloukos ; executive producer, Gordon Freedman.

Stephen Hawking.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, 5.1 surround.

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

Contents:

Eleven ways -- A complicated mind -- One thousand hours -- Cold year -- Reprieved -- Penrose's discovery -- Black holes -- God plays dice -- Gravitational forces -- Time -- Equalizer -- The big crunch -- Infinite possibilities -- Color bars.

ISBN:

9786315360022

9781604658484

1604658487

Publisher Number:

CC2366DDVD

CC2343BDDVD-2

Other Number:

870548759

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

457146

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 523.1 Brief hi

Medium:

[videorecording]