Lord of the Flies (Blu-ray)
Evil is inherent in the human mind, whatever innocence may cloak it...
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Blu-ray Details
- 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:
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
Rating: B+ --
Sparkles with raw intensity.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Brook's adaptation is an encroaching nightmare of innocence lost, following Golding's thesis about what happens when civilization breaks down and man's true nature is revealed.
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The Dissolve
...Brook's vérité approach allows the full force of Golding's allegory to assert itself...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
Though the boys' savagery may well be inherent, the forms of their mischief ( ... ) all stem from systems of behaviour with which they are intimately familiar.
CineVue
4 stars out of 5 -- [R]endered oddly, devastatingly convincing here....This looks starker, stranger and better than ever.
Uncut
[T]he film had a roughness and authenticity that a polished Hollywood version would surely have lacked.
Sight and Sound
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: 50,713
- UPC: 715515108218
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