DVD
Insignificance
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special ed.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Gary Busey, Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Will Sampson, Tony Curtis.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (23 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Summary
Four unnamed people who look and sound a lot like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, and Joseph McCarthy converge in one New York City hotel room for a compelling, visually inventive adaptation of Terry Johnson's play. With a combination of whimsy and dread, director Nicolas Roeg creates a fun-house-mirror picture of cold war America that questions the nature of celebrity and plays on a society's simmering nuclear fears.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Based on the play by Terry Johnson.
Special features: video interviews with Roeg and Thomas and with editor Tony Lawson ; "Making 'Insignificance'" documentary ; original theatrical trailer.