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Time bandits / directed by Terry Gilliam.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2426DDVD | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection ; #37.Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014]Distributor: [United States] : The Criterion Collection Copyright date: ©2014Description: 2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1604659335
  • 9781604659337
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Cast: Ralph Richardson, Shelley Duvall, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, David Warner, Katherine Helmond, Peter Vaughan.Summary: A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.

Special features: Audio commentary featuring Gilliam, cowriter/actor Michael Palin, and actors John Cleese, David Warner, and Craig Warnock; New piece narrated by film writer David Morgan and featuring production designer Milly Burns and costume designer James Acheson on the creation of the film's various historical periods and fantasy worlds; Conversation between Gilliam and film scholar Petervon Bagh at Finland's Midnight Sun Film Festival in 1998; Excerpt from a 1981 appearance by actor Shelley Duvall on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show; trailer; Plus: An essay by critic David Sterritt.

Ralph Richardson, Shelley Duvall, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, David Warner, Katherine Helmond, Peter Vaughan.

A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry.

Rating: PG.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen, 1.85:1 presentation; Dolby Digital.

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