The Elephant Man (1980)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud, Anne Bancroft, Wendy Hiller
Screenwriter: Eric Bergren, Christopher DeVore, David Lynch
Director: Jonathan Sanger
Composer: John Morris
DVD Info
Release:
Dec 11, 2001
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
- Dolby Digital Mono - French
Additional Release Material:
- Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
- Interviews - 1. Cast & Crew Interviews
- 2. Christopher Tucker - Makeup Artist
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Photo Gallery (Narrated)
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Reviews
The greatest contribution -- apart from the central performances -- comes from Francis, whose wonderful black and white, widescreen photography lends atmosphere and clarity to the proceedings.
The picture itself is a strange trade-off between Lynch's personal themes -- the night world of obscure, disturbing sexual obsessions -- and the requirements of a middlebrow message movie.
Director David Lynch has created an eerily compelling atmosphere in recounting a hideously deformed man's perilous life in Victorian England.
It's an amazing story about the human spirit that's told with great sensitivity.
One of the year's best films. Only DeNiro could take the Oscar away from John Hurt.
Revisiting a terrain similar to Eraserhead, albeit in different style, Lynch exposes undercurrents of metaphysical anguish along with an emotionally accessible tale of Merrick's nobility--a Victorian morality play disguised as an elegy to freakishness
Has the look and texture of an authentic document, elevated by the hand of a artist with a singular vision
This black-and-white film already includes several Lyncian benchmarks: hissing noises, nightmare sequences, and moments of deadly quiet.
A marvellous movie, shot in stunning black-and-white by Freddie Francis.
Perhaps Lynch's finest moment -- Both disturbingly odd and surprisingly humane.
I kept asking myself what the film was really trying to say about the human condition as reflected by John Merrick, and I kept drawing blanks.
The Elephant Man is a memorable film about human survival and a powerful commentary on human exploitation.
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