Wise Blood (Criterion Collection) R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 12, 2009
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Brad Dourif & Ned Beatty | |
| Performer: | Amy Wright, John Huston, Mary Nell Santacroce, Harry Dean Stanton & Dan Shor | |
| Directed by | John Huston | |
| Edited by | Roberto Silvi | |
| Screenwriting by | Michael Fitzgerald & Benedict Fitzgerald | |
| Composition by | Alex North | |
| Produced by | Kathy Fitzgerald & Michael Fitzgerald | |
| Director of Photography: | Gerry Fisher |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
Funny, tragic, philosophical, farcical -- this is Huston near the top of his form. A useful batch of interviews, including one with Dourif.
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Total Film
It's a story that seeks to reconcile extremes without changing them, or losing the harshness of their clash. -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
John Huston, with uncluttered direction and expert handling of actors, has fashioned a disturbing tale of the fringe side of overzealous religious preachers in the deep South.
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Variety
Wise Blood is an unsettling account of post-war machismo and mental illness wrapped up in small town values and big ideas.
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Desist Film
...One of John Huston's most original, most stunning movies. It's so eccentric, so funny, so surprising and so haunting that it is difficult to believe it is not the first film of some enfant terrible...
New York Times
John Huston's exploration of humanity goes beyond the purely individual to the anecdotical, which is why he's capable of attracting all sorts of viewers. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Included in the New York Times 10 BEST FILMS OF 1980
New York Times
Product Description:
A scathing satire of crooked ministers. While attempting to live a life filled with sin, a man is mistaken for a preacher, and, true to form, he founds a new religious order. Based on a novel by Flannery O'Connor.
Product Description:
In this acclaimed adaptation of the first novel by legendary Southern writer Flannery O’Connor, John Huston vividly brings to life her poetic world of American eccentricity. Brad Dourif, in an impassioned performance, is Hazel Motes, who, fresh out of the army, attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. Populated with inspired performances that seem to spring right from O’Connor’s pages, Huston’s Wise Blood is an incisive portrait of spirituality and Evangelicalism, and a faithful, loving evocation of a writer’s vision.
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