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Targets / Paramount ; a Saticoy production ; screenplay by Peter Bogdanovich ; story by Polly Platt and Peter Bogdanovich ; directed and produced by Peter Bogdanovich.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3456D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1179.Publisher: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9798886070323
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs ; editor, Peter Bogdanovich.
Cast: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Arthur Peterson, Mary Jackson, Tanya Morgan, Sandy Baron.Summary: Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence.

DVD, NTSC; region 1, aspect ratio 1.85:1, Dolby digital mono.

Optional English subtitles for the hearing-impaired (SDH).

Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Nancy Hsueh, James Brown, Arthur Peterson, Mary Jackson, Tanya Morgan, Sandy Baron.

Director of photography, Laszlo Kovacs ; editor, Peter Bogdanovich.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in the startling debut feature from Peter Bogdanovich. The chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles. Charged with provocative ideas about the relationship between mass media and mass violence.

Special features: Audio commentary from 2003 featuring Bogdanovich; New interview with filmmaker Richard Linklater; Introduction to the film from 2003 by Bogdanovich; Audio excerpts from a 1983 interview with production designer Polly Platt at the American Film Institute.

For private home use only.

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