The Elephant Man PG
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I … am … a man!
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 10, 2017
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Anthony Hopkins & John Hurt | |
Performer: | John Gielgud, Anne Bancroft, Freddie Jones, Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Lesley Dunlop & John Standing | |
Directed by | David Lynch | |
Edited by | Anne V. Coates | |
Screenplay by | David Lynch, Christopher DeVore & Eric Bergren | |
Composition by | John Morris | |
Produced by | Jonathan Sanger | |
Director of Photography: | Freddie Francis | |
Executive Production by | Stuart Cornfeld |
Entertainment Reviews:
Director David Lynch does a great job, John Hurt is completely committed, and the mise-en-scène is excellent. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
A marvellous movie, shot in stunning black-and-white by Freddie Francis.
Time Out
This is a tale of redemption and transcendence, of the hunchback of London Hospital, of the noble phantom who wanted to go to the opera, of Beauty and the Beast.
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TIME Magazine
The Elephant Man is a perfect movie and, as John Hurt once said "If you're not moved by the time The Elephant Man is over...then you're not someone I want to know." I agree.
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Alexander On Film
Lynch's powerful depiction of Merrick (played by John Hurt) moves a viewer from revulsion and fear to empathy and tenderness. That's the very movement of the story itself.
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New Yorker
5 stars out of 5 -- [A] beautiful, measured and rather atypical movie by David Lynch from 1980...
The Guardian
4 stars out of 5 -- [Lynch] creates surreal dream images and swirling, dissolving montages....John Merrick is the beauty -- it is the modern world, suggests Lynch, that is the beast.
Empire
Product Description:
David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master," the eloquent, soft spoken Merrick is "rescued" by compassionate surgeon Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins), who allows him to live at the hospital where he works. Merrick becomes a social celebrity when he meets a popular stage performer (Anne Bancroft), but he must continue to fight for his dignity with those who still choose to view him as a freak. Meanwhile, Treves begins to question whether his supposed act of humanity has been just as exploitative as Merrick's former caretaker's.
Lynch's follow-up to his 1978 cult classic ERASERHEAD is a seamless blend of art and entertainment, which earned the film eight Academy Award nominations in 1980. Freddie Francis's breathtaking black-and-white cinematography combines with John Morris's score to re-create Victorian England with a deeply haunting beauty. It is the compassionate performances of Hurt and Hopkins that lift THE ELEPHANT MAN to a more emotional level, however, bringing an inspired sadness to Lynch's striking vision.
Lynch's follow-up to his 1978 cult classic ERASERHEAD is a seamless blend of art and entertainment, which earned the film eight Academy Award nominations in 1980. Freddie Francis's breathtaking black-and-white cinematography combines with John Morris's score to re-create Victorian England with a deeply haunting beauty. It is the compassionate performances of Hurt and Hopkins that lift THE ELEPHANT MAN to a more emotional level, however, bringing an inspired sadness to Lynch's striking vision.
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- Sales Rank: 128,002
- UPC: 032429285294
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