Lord of the Flies
Evil is inherent in the human mind, whatever innocence may cloak it...
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Lord of the Flies (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 16, 2013
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Aubrey & Tom Chapin | |
Performer: | Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman & Peter Davy | |
Directed by | Peter Brook | |
Edited by | Peter Brook, Gerald Feil & Jean-Claude Lubtchansky | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Brook | |
Composition by | Raymond Leppard | |
Produced by | Lewis M. Allen | |
Director of Photography: | Tom Hollyman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
the most effective way of visually capturing the essence of Golding's Lord of the Flies
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 3.5/4 --
No matter how many years one is removed from the reading of Golding's book for school, its portrait of youth gone wild remains burned in the brain, and a viewing of Brook's cinematic take only serves to bring those thoughts to the surface once again.
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Creative Loafing
Rating: 5/5 --
Book-based classic can be scary and troubling in places.
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Common Sense Media
Too slow in the establishing shots and too flurried with action shots, the direction, like the tediously repetitive score, raises a barrier between us and the subject.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
[T]he film had a roughness and authenticity that a polished Hollywood version would surely have lacked.
Sight and Sound
4 stars out of 5 -- [R]endered oddly, devastatingly convincing here....This looks starker, stranger and better than ever.
Uncut
Rating: 4.5/5 --
For all that time has changed the way it fits into the world, Lord Of The Flies remains as important today as it was in 1963. The quality of the restored version is excellent. Don't wait too long to see it.
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Eye for Film
Product Description:
Director Peter Brook's faithful adaptation of William Golding's 1954 novel stars James Aubrey and Tom Chapin as antagonists Ralph and Jack, respectively. When a plane carrying 30-odd British schoolboys out of a war zone crashes on an island, all the adults are killed. The boys organize for survival, naming Ralph as their chief, in charge of providing fire and shelter. Jack is designated to lead a group of boys to hunt the wild pigs that roam the island. Almost inevitably, as time passes, the two boys, representatives of civilization and savagery, begin a deadly struggle for dominance. The frequently invoked image of life as a "war of all against all," in which civility is merely another weapon in the battle to gain one's ends, is given a particularly disturbing twist because it is enacted by children. Brooks shot an enormous amount of footage, a documentary style ratio of 60:1, and used nonprofessional actors to achieve a raw, visceral realism. With a jauntily ironic score by Raymond Leppard, the film succeeds completely in suggesting the chilling malignity that can lurk beneath a bland exterior.
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- Sales Rank: 44,714
- UPC: 715515108317
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