The Elephant Man (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) PG
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I … am … a man!
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- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 29, 2020
- Originally Released: 1980
- Label: Criterion Collection
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:
Rating: 4/5 --
Many Lynchian tropes are here, from a sense of foreboding to a fascination with the grotesque, in terms of Merrick and outsiders' reactions to him.
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Times (UK)
...Lynch's immaculate portrait of the tortured John Merrick emerges as one of the director's most experimental cinematic projects...
Sight and Sound
...Moving...
Sight and Sound
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
Rating: 3/4 --
...at its best when the story and period trappings serve Lynch's vision, and vice versa.
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LarsenOnFilm
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
Director David Lynch has created an eerily compelling atmosphere in recounting a hideously deformed man's perilous life in Victorian England.
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Variety
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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