This amusing Brit effort sank without a trace, perhaps taking with it the career of the talented Tom Courtenay as a leading man. available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date Septem/ 39.95 Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, Lydia Lisle.įew latecomer ’60s spy movies were big successes. How many horror pictures hold up hope for social decency and personal dignity? The Elephant Man Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 1051 1980 / B&w / 2:35 widescreen / 123 min. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller and Freddie Jones all give indelible, emotionally-moving performances. Lynch extends and develops the visual nightmares of his experimental Eraserhead for this true-life classic. Why is it that, when a horror film achieves something special, both the critics and the public tend to elevate it above and beyond the ‘lowly’ horror genre? David Lynch’s most humane and sympathetic film still makes our heads spin, and this new 4K remaster renders Freddie Francis’s great cinematography at its best. Street Date Aug/ 59.95 Starring (alphabetically): Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill. Dune 4K Ultra HD Arrow Video 1984 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 137 min. Lynch should have been authorized to make an alternate cut, his own completely personal ‘impressionist’ version of the Frank Herbert story. Even if it’s described as a hundred fragmented scenes from a larger narrative, they’re superlative fragments. The fractured, de-Lynched storyline can be argued over, but the amazing design and arresting characterizations never fail to impress - Lynch attracted a world-class cast of movie stars and used them well. Ignored, maligned and hammered out into an ‘Alan Smithee’ extended cut for TV, David Lynch’s outstanding Sci-fi epic arrives on 4K Ultra HD, finally achieving the visual opulence on home video that it had in 70mm prints at the end of 1984.
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