Phantom of the Paradise (Collector's Edition) (Blu-ray) PG
Winslow Leach is a young man who wants to create heavenly music - even if he has to descend to the depths of hell to do it.
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- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 5, 2014
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Scream Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | William Finley, Jessica Harper & Paul Williams | |
Performer: | George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham, Archie Hahn, Gene Gross & Ken Carpenter | |
Directed by | Brian De Palma | |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch | |
Screenwriting by | Brian De Palma | |
Composition by | Paul Williams & George Tipton | |
Produced by | Edward R. Pressman | |
Director of Photography: | Larry Pizer | |
Executive Production by | Gustave M. Berne |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
With its climactic assassination attempt of a lovely songstress, this sardonic skewering of the music industry-as-America may be nothing less than a more rollicking, less sniffy predecessor to Altman's 'Nashville.'
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: 1/4 --
Brian De Palma returns to the incompetence of his earlier films with Phantom of the Paradise...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 8/10 --
Bravura cinematic spectacle with just enough literary antecedent and social commentary that it doesn't come across as shallow as the word "spectacle" implies.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: A --
If you don't love it, I have to wonder what brings you to movies in the first place.
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Projection Booth
A very good horror comedy-drama about a disfigured musician haunting a rock palace. Brian De Palma's direction and script makes for one of the very rare 'backstage' rock story pix, catching the garishness of the glitter scene in its own time.
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Variety
Rating: 7/10 --
While Phantom of the Paradise is a mess, it's an extremely interesting mess.
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Under the Radar
Phantom of the Paradise is not just one of the flashiest, angriest musical films, but an enduring and damning kiss-off to America's spiraling desperation for entertainment.
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The Film Stage
Product Description:
Brian De Palma's great, overlooked 1970s glitter-rock comedy-musical spectacle is a memorable combination of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and FAUST. Winslow Leach (William Finley) is a talented young rock composer/janitor whose music is stolen and whose life is destroyed by a ruthless record tycoon named Swan (Paul Williams)--who just happens to have sold his soul in exchange for rock-n-roll success and eternal youth! The ruined and disfigured Leach becomes the Phantom, an imposing leather-clad creature who is hell-bent on demolishing Swan as the diabolical music mogul prepares to open his biggest venture yet-- a rock-and-roll palace called The Paradise. Eerily prescient in it's depiction of yet-to-exist musical genres, this stunningly original and darkly comic rock nightmare features voice over narration by Rod Serling, and memorable original songs by the multi-talented Williams. Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Song Score (Paul Williams/George Aliceson Tipton).
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Cult Film
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Fantasy
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Psychos
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Occult
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Rock And Roll
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Big Business
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Devil / Demons
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